Chantal D. Hayes, MA, LCMHC, CLC

preferred pronouns: she/her

​Chantal is the Founder and Executive Director at Banyan Tree Counseling & Wellness. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor specializing in anxiety, depression, young adult (20-something) life transitions, religious trauma, individuating from family-of-origin, grief and loss, women's issues, and couples/relationship counseling. Whether it's work stress, life transitions, anxiety, depression, and beyond, Chantal believes that everyone has the inner wisdom and strength to live a joyful, healthy life during all steps of their journey. By working with Chantal, you can look forward to improvements in self-awareness, confidence, decision-making, problem-solving, and all of the other important aspects of your personal, family, spiritual, and work life. 
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​*Chantal is not currently accepting new patients, but is glad to help you find the right therapist fit for you! If you are a mental health provider and interested in a professional consultation on a clinical or practice related issue, click below.  

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Qualifications

Chantal Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC #9282) approved by the North Carolina Board of Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors. She is also a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Certified Life Coach (CLC). 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.

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. 

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, anxiety, work/personal life balance, millennial issues, young adult phase-of-life transitions, grief and loss, spirituality issues, depression/anxiety, parenting struggles, self-esteem, assertiveness, effective communication and relationship concerns, childhood trauma, and women’s issues including infertility and pregnancy loss.

Personal Life

Chantal lives with her spouse, three children, two dogs, and a wild pack of perpetual dust bunnies just outside of Winston Salem, NC. A self-proclaimed ambivert, Chantal has always been passionate about all things psychology, which doesn't often get 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 reading, snowboarding, teaching her children how to be in awe of nature, learning from the stillness of trees, traveling to obscure places, writing poetry, and creating art. At home you'll find her eating stinky cheese, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, Schitt's Creek, and The Office reruns, or in her greenhouse singing to her plants.