About Veronica
Veronica Hayes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings three years of clinical experience and a faith-informed perspective to her work. Veronica aims to offer steady support for people facing hard moments and ongoing struggles.
She spends time listening first and then helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions focus on practical steps that can reduce stress and improve day-to-day functioning. Veronica often works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, and substance use issues.
Background and approach
Other common areas she addresses include relationship strain, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, career stress, and coping with life changes. She frames progress as small, steady shifts rather than instant fixes. Veronica encourages hope and forward movement in ways that match each person’s values.
Her style is warm and direct. She aims to create a calm space for honest conversation and problem solving. People can expect to talk through feelings, try new coping skills, and set simple goals between sessions.
Veronica views therapy as a partnership. She offers guidance and encouragement while inviting people to shape their own path forward. Her approach blends practical techniques with attention to personal beliefs and strengths.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Veronica draws on well-established therapeutic techniques to address mood and stress-related concerns. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Another method emphasizes building concrete coping skills for emotion regulation and managing cravings, which can help with anger, substance use, and mood swings.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Veronica will work with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, values, and daily routines. Together they review what is or isn't working and adjust the plan over time to better fit changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or busy schedules while still getting consistent clinical support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English