About Hilary
Hilary Stover is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) in South Carolina and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Oregon who focuses on practical strategies for managing anxiety and stress. She brings 18 years of clinical experience to sessions and uses clear, hands-on methods to help people make changes.
Her style is warm and direct, offering steady support while pushing toward realistic goals. Hilary works with adults on a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, substance use, ADHD, and grief.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, body image worries, chronic illness and pain, and career or life-purpose questions. Sessions emphasize building skills that can be used right away in daily life. Her clinical background includes work in outpatient and inpatient settings, community agencies, personal hospitals, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as independent practice.
That range informs a flexible approach that adapts to where someone is starting from and what they hope to change. Hilary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing alongside mindfulness and solution-focused strategies. She focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep people stuck and on practicing alternatives that reduce symptoms and improve functioning.
The pace and tools are chosen to fit each person’s needs and goals. In online sessions she emphasizes accessibility and convenience so people can connect in ways that fit their life. Her aim is to help clients find practical steps, build coping skills, and move toward the life they want.
Using CBT, DBT skills, and mindfulness online
Hilary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and depression; CBT focuses on practical exercises and manageable behavior experiments. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and improved interpersonal effectiveness for people who feel overwhelmed by strong emotions.Mindfulness Therapy is used alongside these approaches to build attention, reduce reactivity, and create space for different choices in stressful moments. Each approach is explained in simple terms and applied to real-life situations like panic attacks, sleep disruption, or relationship stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and practice of skills, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, short live chats are useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into work, family life, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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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