Chantal D. Hayes, MA, LCMHC-S

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​Chantal is the Founder and Executive Director at Banyan Tree Counseling & Wellness. She is a LCMHC-S, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor, specializing in anxiety, depression, young adult (20-something) life transitions, mindfulness, religious trauma, individuating from family-of-origin, grief and loss, women's issues, and couples/relationship counseling. 
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I am not currently accepting new patients, but am glad to help you find the right therapist fit for you. If you are a therapist/mental health provider and interested in a licensure supervision or professional consultation on beginning or growing your private practice, please send me a message here. I look forward to connecting with you.

Qualifications
Chantal Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor (LCMHC-S #S9282) approved by the North Carolina Board of Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors. In 2008 Chantal attended graduate school at the University of San Francisco, CA where she earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Counseling Psychology. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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Counseling Background
During her Masters program, Chantal completed an internship through the University of San Francisco’s Center for Child & Family Development, providing individual, group, and family counseling services to children, teens and their families. Upon graduating, she served as a psychotherapist for teen girls at the Greenbrier Academy for Girls therapeutic boarding school in West Virginia. For many years she provided Intensive In-Home Services in Wilmington, North Carolina, providing individual, group, and family therapy sessions for clients in their homes. She provided therapy for children and families at The Children's Home (Reynolda Counseling) and Winston East Pediatrics through Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She opened Banyan Tree Counseling in 2015 and enjoys leaning into her entrepreneurial side by business coaching and consulting.

Before becoming a therapist, Chantal held a career as an elementary school teacher, teaching 1st grade at the Roger Bacon Academy in Brunswick Co, NC, and 2nd grade at the Lisa Kampner Hebrew Academy, a private Jewish Orthodox school in the heart of San Francisco, CA.
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Specialization
Special interests include counseling couples, religious trauma, mindfulness, work/personal life balance, millennial issues, young adult phase-of-life transitions, grief and loss, spirituality issues, parenting struggles, self-esteem, assertiveness, effective communication, childhood trauma, late-diagnosis Autism in adult females, adult ADHD, and women’s issues including infertility and pregnancy loss. Chantal also has a specialty area in counselor supervision, and is trained in administering the ADOS-2, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Second Edition, which is an assessment administered by trained clinicians to evaluate communication skills, social interaction, and imaginative use of materials in individuals who are suspected to have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She received her ADOS-2 certification from Jennifer Endre Olson, PsyD. through Western Psychological Services (WPS, the publisher of the ADOS-2).
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Personal Life
Chantal lives with her three children, one spouse, and a wild pack of perpetual dust bunnies. An AuDHD ambivert, Chantal is passionate about all things psychology, which doesn't always earn her return invites to dinner parties. She has a background in several different religions and spiritualities, including Buddhism, mentoring under abbot monk Phrakru Buddamonpricha at Wat Carolina Buddhajakra Vanaram, and considers herself a student of the universe, constantly learning. When she's not in the office, she enjoys engaging in many special interests, such as meticulously planning international travel to obscure places, snowboarding, learning from the stillness of trees, writing poetry, creating art, being in awe of nature, and contemplating what it means to be human in this world. She is passionate about social justice and dedicated to playing a role in creating a more just and equitable world for all people, as well as for the environment. At home you'll find her eating stinky cheese, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm reruns, playing video games, or hanging out in her greenhouse singing to her plants.