About Hailey Dannatt, LCSW
Family-focused Therapist in Dallas.
My Approach
I am passionate about empowering people to build lives they delight in living. I particularly love to work with mothers, children and couples as they face life’s challenges. I understand how impactful both individual and relational obstacles are to our understanding of ourselves and the cohesiveness of our families. I am honored to walk alongside people as they seek connection, peace and joy, and as they learn to embrace themselves and the world around them.
During therapy, I identify which research-based tools best suit your unique situation, and help you to tailor them to the rhythm of your life. I help people lean into those a-hah moments that make life feel so precious, and to feel more equipped as they move through the rest of the day.
Clinical Background
- Master’s of Social Work, Simmons College
- Specialization in Trauma and Interpersonal Violence
- Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology, Lyon College
Working at children’s home for foster and adoptive children ages 5-17 years old, I collaborated in developing the milieu and individual treatment for the Comprehensive Clinical Assessment Program. It aimed at identifying needs of high risk children within the foster care system. I developed therapeutic interventions for children while in the home, supported during parental visitations, prepared children to share their stories in court, and helped children and adoptive families foster connection. I also worked with staff directly on the unit to engage with children without the use of physical restraints, and led trainings in trauma-informed caregiving.
After relocating to Texas, I have gotten to expand on that by working closely with mothers and couples throughout Texas via telehealth, and now in person in Dallas.
Advanced Training
- Helps parents lead their child in co-regulating
- Reduces behavioral problems at home and school
- Develops strong parent-child attachment
- Fun therapy: interaction and play-focused
- Prenatal to 11 years old
- Reduces behavioral problems at home and school
- Addresses attachment issues in talk therapy
- Offers concrete tools for parents to connect
- Reduces power struggles
- For children and teens
- Quiets negative thoughts
- Increases confidence
- Reduces anxiety
- Ages 7-99 years
- Fosters capacity for stable, long-lasting relationships
- Breaks pattern of living crisis to crisis
- Manages sudden, intense emotional outburst
- For teens and adults
- Research-based strategies to renew friendship
- Reduces conflict and helps you fight fair
- Supports couples in creating shared meaning
- Helps couples manage life after kids
Common Topics Addressed
- Behavioral challenges with children
- Adoption
- Attachment needs
- Parenting
- Reducing power struggles
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Trauma- children and adults
- Marital conflict
- Distance in marriage
- Adjusting to life after kids
- Postpartum depression
- Parenting burnout
- Social isolation as a stay-at-home mom
- Depression, anxiety & ADHD in mothers