David Hayden (he/him)

My Approach to Helping

My approach to helping starts from the position that therapy is a co-created experience, that requires investment and deep attunement, as well as defined goals. From this position, we work to create an approach custom to your needs, developmental wounds, attachment style, and preferences. Often our work will include the nervous system, and working together to create a space where your nervous system feels held and cared for. From this position, we interweave parts work (IFS or Ego States), attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic experiencing and EMDR.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

As a therapist, I seek to author a space that allows clients to explore and share some of the deepest aspects of themselves. I believe that therapy doesn't just require an investment by the client, but by the therapist as well and that quality therapy is a part of a co-created journey that isn't linear. Most of my work with clients seeks to explore and provide healing to their attachment styles, and trauma and to provide a space for psychedelic integration. However I do have a specialization in religious trauma, and often do a lot of work with clients who are coming from this space, as well as provide intensive services, to clients that need comprehensive EMDR support, in a way that doesn't fit neatly into a 50-minute weekly therapy session.