Welcome to my website!
I'm Barbara Hayes, MS, MFT, author of Beware of Dogs: How to Avoid Dating Disasters.

About the Author
Barbara Hayes, MS, MFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She wrote this book to help women understand how to determine the difference between the petty issues that plague most relationships and the big red flags that the relationship is headed for disaster. She currently lives in northern California. 

About my book, Beware of Dogs: How to Avoid Dating Disasters

Have your relationships started out great but gradually - or quickly - deteriorated in ways that  caught you off-guard? 

Do you meet other singles that seem attractive and bright, but have some quirky traits or bothersome habits that keep creating nagging doubts? 

Do you keep thinking, "What's this guy's story?" or "He seems too good to be true."

Do not ignore those nagging gut feelings!  They are clues that there may be deeper problems.  In this work a therapist helps you sort out which issues are Freud's normal neuroses that are common to most relationships and which are signs of potentially serious psychological issues.

Whether a woman is sixteen years old or sixty, dating is a lot like navigating a mine field. When a relationship is good, it feels like we are soaring on top of the world. But more often than we would like to admit, things can go wrong; only after the smoke clears do we realize we never noticed the warning signs. Beware of Dogs: How to Avoid Dating Disasters helps women learn the important lessons gained from bad relationships while providing expert guidance leading them down a path to becoming happier, more self-fulfilled human beings.

Barbara Hayes is a relationship therapist who relies on both her professional and personal experiences to help women discern whether their guy is nice or narcissistic, quirky or disturbed, intrigued or obsessed. Along with personal anecdotes and case studies, she includes fun quizzes and checklists that make it easy to sort out the dirty dogs from the dream guys.

Beware of Dogs: How to Avoid Dating Disasters provides the practical tools and suggestions that will help any woman learn how to make wise relationship choices.