Dr. Laura Dabney has been a psychiatrist in Virginia Beach, VA for twenty plus years.

For more than 26 years, Laura Dabney, MD has worked with individuals and couples navigating complex relationships dynamics. She currently serves on the teaching faculty of the Lingyu School of Psychotherapy in China, providing psychodynamic training to mental health professionals. Her psychiatric expertise is regularly featured in national media, including Newsweek and Real Simple, and she consults for major institutions, including the Virginia Veterans Administration.

Recognized by top media for relationship expertise.

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Recognized by top media for relationship expertise.

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A Collaborative Approach.

Dr. Dabney works closely with Certified Relationship Coach Joelle Brant, allowing clients to benefit from a collaborative approach when appropriate. Together they bring complementary perspectives to helping individuals and couples understand difficult relationship patterns and determine next steps. This approach provides greater flexibility in the level, frequency, and cost of support, while allowing different members of a family to receive individual attention with appropriate privacy.

26 years of relationship work, distilled into one book.

After decades of working with the relationship patterns that leave people feeling confused, rejected, overwhelmed, or stuck, Dr. Dabney wrote: I Need You, Now Go Away! to make those patterns understandable outside the consulting room. The book explores seven ineffective personality styles, and more importantly, what people can do once they recognize them in themselves or loved one.
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