About
After nearly four decades of broad clinical practice, I’ve learned that people are more capable than they believe themselves to be - more able to change than they’ve been led to believe. Held back by fear and self-doubt, too many live with untapped potential - leaving joy, deeply felt satisfaction and fulfillment behind.
My approach has always leaned in the direction of what’s possible rather than what’s broken. Wellness over illness. Possibility over scarcity. Answers to the questions of who and what we are and what matters most show up, not as a result of a frantic search to possess or achieve, but in times of quiet engagement. Freedom to grow happens in a climate of safety and trust, and our most creative selves emerge in the acts of, seeking, imagining and experimentation.
Today, more coach than therapist, drawing on current understanding of the science of change, I help people move toward the lives they prefer - not by analyzing the past, but by engaging the present with awareness, optimism, and freedom of choice.
Working remotely with clients in the US and the UK, the format is closer to purposeful conversation than traditional therapy - grounded, forward-thinking, and informed by both the reassuring teachings of our beginnings in the natural world and the brain’s ability to reorganize itself throughout the lifetime.
I look forward to working with you.
Thank you.
With warmest regards,
Austen Hayes, Phd
1+917,526.3055
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“for a while I rest in the grace of the world and I am free.”
~ wendell berry ~