OHayerPsych.com
Evidence-based expertise: manage emotions, find purpose, live better.

OHayerPsych.com
All of our therapy services are provided via teletherapy/virtual therapy. This allows you to receive excellent quality mental health care from the comfort and convenience of your own home. We use a secure and easy-to-use platform to provide clients with a safe and confidential space to discuss their concerns and work towards their goals.
Got stagnation? All work and daily grind?
Are you in a rut of unhelpful behavior (with your partner, friends, or colleagues)? Are your days empty and you can't remember what you used to like to do?
Your clinician can help you map out & start taking action steps toward a life you are motivated to jump into with both feet.
Our clinicians draw on evidence-based protocols to teach you skills to help with close relationships at home (with your spouse, partner, adult children, parents) and/or at work (with your boss, colleagues, people who report to you).
Emotional loneliness is a major problem in our society. Being truly open with a partner or bestie or family member can help make life worthwhile. Rigid patterns of behavior, fear of judgment, and overly logical mindsets can all keep us lonely and isolated. Your clinician can help you grow openness, connect with a sense of fun and take a highlighter to what is sweet and good in your life.
Whether you're recovering from divorce, adapting to an empty nest, adulting after graduation, adjusting to parenthood, or other life transition, our team can help you reset and decide what's really important to you NOW. With a focus on freeing yourself from unhelpful "old stories" that keep you stuck in the past, your clinician can help you blaze a new trail.
Emotionally focused couples therapy is a fun and workable way to connect with your loved one. You can be in the same location as your loved one or in a different physical space. Your clinician will guide you both through this science-backed technique to heal the past, forge a new path forward, and enjoy time together in this phase of life.
All of our clinicians are experts in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an empirically supported treatment designed to help reduce problematic behaviors so that you can build a life worth living. DBT skills and individual DBT can help you learn to harness the power of intense emotions.
Grow gratitude, be here for the good, let the chips fall where they may, let go of maladaptive overcontrol and let reality be real. Our team is trained in principles of Zen Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation. Paying attention to what brings you joy can help combat burnout, anxiety, and depression.
All of our clinicians are well-versed in a variety of evidence-based trauma treatments, including prolonged exposure (PE) and cognitive processing therapy (CPT). We also specialize in empowering clients to recover from traumatic invalidation using DBT-PE.
C. Virginia O'Hayer, Ph.D is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of OHayerPsych. Dr. O'Hayer received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duke University in 2006. She served on Faculty at Duke in the Division of Behavioral Medicine until 2012 when she relocated to Philadelphia. She then worked at Drexel University until 2020 when she relocated her clinical and research operation to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She has since served as a Clinical Professor and is the Director of the Jefferson Center City Clinic for Behavioral Medicine.
For Clients: OHayerPsych is a small, boutique telehealth clinic staffed entirely by clinicians who have trained intensively with Dr. O'Hayer for several years.
We offer a variety of talk therapy modalities to help you & your loved ones:
For Professionals, we offer a range of clinical consultation, supervision and training services to help you deliver effective, adherent care for your patients and to help you build a clinical service that is competitive and best serves your patients and clients.
OHayerPsych has expertise in treatment, supervision, training, and consultation regarding services designed to help the following patient populations:
Clinical supervision is essential in order to learn a new treatment, apply it effectively, and maintain treatment fidelity. Dr. O'Hayer offers supervision in DBT, ACT, MIndfulness-based interventions, and trans-affirming therapies. Supervision modalities include live supervision ("bug in the ear"), review of videotaped sessions, and case formulation. Supervision can occur in-office or via webcam.
Clinical Consultation ensures that your clinic or service is best equipped to effectively serve your intended patient population. Adaptations of evidence-based treatments (such as ACT, DBT, CBT) to chronic illnesses, rare diseases, racial and gender minorities are among the consultation services most frequently requested at OHayerPsych. Development of trans-affirming programs, including groups, clinics, and in-patient services. Design of clinical trials to expand your clinical successes to a larger volume of patients.
Clinical Training is vital to remain up-to-date regarding evidence-based treatments and their applications to a wide variety of patient populations. OHayerPsych offers training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for small or large groups - trainings can be introductory (3 hours, 1 day), or intermediate (2-5 days). Training can occur in person or via webcam. Trans-competence trainings are encouraged for people working with trans and gender expansive patients. A wide body of research suggests that trans/non-binary/gender-expansive patients often avoid mental health treatment in order to avoid the burden of having to "educate" their providers about all things trans. Training to improve your trans-competence will help you best reach and serve your trans/gender expansive and non-binary patients.
Please contact us with questions or to book a consultation, supervision, or training.
ohayerpsych@gmail.com