About Hayley
Hayley Mauro is a California-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. She approaches sessions with a friendly, down-to-earth manner so clients can speak honestly about what’s hard. Hayley’s style aims to make therapy practical and understandable for everyday life.
With seven years of experience, she draws on several well-known therapy methods to match each person’s needs. Sessions often include straightforward tools for managing strong emotions, building motivation, and changing unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and skills-based strategies are used to help clients feel more grounded in the moment. Hayley has worked in varied settings across California and is comfortable addressing trauma, relationship and family challenges, eating and body concerns, and issues related to sexuality and identity. She also supports people dealing with caregiving, aging, serious illness, and end-of-life topics.
Her background includes work related to adoption and foster care as well as young adult concerns. Her sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with short-term plans and practical steps clients can try between meetings. Hayley emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where questions and setbacks are part of the process.
She aims to help clients build skills they can use long after therapy ends.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Hayley often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small, workable steps and is a common way to address anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day struggles.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach grounding and attention techniques. Mindfulness practices are brief exercises that help reduce reactivity and increase focus, and they can be easy to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Hayley will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in sessions. That shared decision-making helps shape practical short-term plans and homework that make sense for the person’s life.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports quick follow-ups or reminders. These options offer flexibility for fitting therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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