About Hayley
Hayley McLemore welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to start. She offers straightforward, respectful support for stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, grief, anger, and major life changes. Hayley presents as calm and direct, and she aims to make early sessions feel simple and clear so a person can decide next steps.
Hayley is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with seven years of experience.
Background and approach
She works in California and with people who prefer English or American Sign Language. Her approach is practical and collaborative, focused on what a person wants to change and what is realistic for their life. In sessions she uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy to examine unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to help people live around difficult feelings.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help when someone needs clearer direction or short-term goals. The work is driven by the client’s priorities and paced to their comfort. Hayley helps with conditions that often overlap, such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, or substance use linked to mood problems.
She also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, impulsivity, isolation, communication breakdowns, and relationship betrayals. Her style is practical rather than theoretical. Conversations lead to small experiments and doable steps between sessions.
That makes progress measurable and easier to keep up with day to day.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Hayley often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try out different ways of thinking and behaving to test what works. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck and taking action toward a meaningful life despite those feelings.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Hayley will listen to goals, try methods, and adjust the plan together so the work matches what the person needs and prefers. That means sessions can shift from short-term problem solving to deeper values-based work as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller interaction and visual cues, phone sessions are low-bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York, Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language