Hilary Stover
Compassionate, practical therapy for change
- Credentials
- LISW-CP, LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Hilary
Hilary Stover is a licensed social worker who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people make real changes. She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing with a steady, direct style. Hilary keeps sessions focused on skills and steps that parents and individuals can use right away.
She brings 18 years of clinical experience to each conversation and speaks plainly about problems and solutions. Hilary has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings, community agencies, personal hospitals, and with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Background and approach
She has helped people with trauma and post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, substance use, ADHD, anger, and stress. Her practice also covers parenting, self-esteem, motivation, health and wellness, grief, and coping with life changes. In session she helps people spot thoughts and behaviors that keep them stuck.
Then she teaches concrete skills to shift those patterns. She uses cognitive and behavioral tools to build coping strategies for stressful moments and everyday challenges. Her manner is warm and supportive while also being honest and goal-oriented.
Hilary holds the credential LISW-CP, which is Licensed Independent Social Worker with Clinical Practice in South Carolina, and she is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oregon. She tailors her approach to each person’s needs and goals instead of using one fixed method. Her focus on practical steps makes therapy useful between sessions.
Many clients find that doing things differently produces different results. Hilary works together with each person to identify small, manageable changes. Her aim is to help people move toward the life they want, using strengths already present in their lives.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Hilary draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to guide online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or depression. Motivational Interviewing focuses on building your own reasons for change and increasing motivation for new habits or recovery.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals and current challenges and suggest approaches that fit your needs. Together you can try one approach or mix techniques until you find what helps most for the situation at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. These formats let people meet from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and use shorter check-ins when needed. The flexibility helps carry skills learned in sessions into everyday life and supports steady progress over time.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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