Staff

Haley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in marital and family relationship counseling and trauma therapy. Haley takes a holistic approach to mental health addressing the needs of the individual by considering the societal, relational, biological, spiritual, and emotional factors in a person's life. She is well-versed in all of the family therapy models and often uses Emotionally- Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, EMDR, and Humanistic Therapy interventions. Haley approaches therapy with a collaborative stance, considering the client the expert on their life and situations and offers her expertise on relational dynamics, trauma and the brain, attachment wounds, and self-parenting to help her clients navigate their past hurts, current relationships, anxiety, depression, grief, and more. Haley works with a range of disorders and presenting issues including but not limited to:

Stress, anxiety, depression, marital dissatisfaction, grief, anger, fear, loneliness, LGBT-Q stressors, systematic victimization, infidelity, divorce, parenting, family conflict, trauma, PTSD, personality disorders, bi-polar disorder, oppression, OCD, DID, addiction, body-image, low self-esteem, eating disorders, abuse, brain injuries, spiritual guidance and more.

Haley loves what she does and aims to offer a safe and compassionate listening ear to anyone who is struggling. She will recommend a treatment with the client's input and then walk alongside them as they work on their own goals for healing and self-love.

Haley has also created a course for MFT- applicants to help them pass the national licensing exam. She is knowledgeable and practiced in the field having helped several students prepare for licensure. Haley is currently working on a course to help clients hack their mental health and overcome trauma.

Haley's dreams for Greater House Counseling include training other therapists and helping heal hearts, homes, and the world. She believes changing the world starts with healing ourselves. As we mend our own hearts, the families, friend groups, and other relational systems we are a part of cannot help but change in response to our new way of being. Similarly, the world changes as our churches, families, schools, and neighborhoods think and respond differently. Together, we can change the world. One heart and one home at a time.

Haley is married to her amazing husband Zach. Together they have served in church leadership and have lived as resident coordinators in a homeless shelter. It was during their time at the shelter that Haley learned the single leading cause of homelessness was the breakdown of the family unit. Before addiction, poverty, victimization, and trauma the family-system was torn apart. If home is where the heart is, it was the loss of close friends and families that left our displaced neighbors homeless. Together Zach and Haley cling to God's promise in Haggai 2:9 that "the present house shall be greater in glory than the former house..., and in this place [He] will grant peace." To Zach and Haley, healing the family is one of the key ingredients to seeing the Greater House of God's Kingdom on Earth.

Zach offers business and financial consulting to organizations and individual clients of the GHC. Zach supports Haley in running the clinic and together they provide business and organizational consulting for group dynamics and spiritual formation. Zach owns and has helped start several businesses in the Abilene and DFW areas. He is an investor in people and good ideas and has a knack for putting the right people in the right positions. Together, Zach and Haley also provide marital and premarital consultations.