About Hilary
Hilary Hughes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years in the mental health field. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, and issues like grief or anger. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental, and she listens closely to understand each person’s situation.
Hilary uses a straightforward, interactive style. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals. She blends client-centered care with evidence-informed strategies to help people manage symptoms and solve day-to-day problems.
Background and approach
In the room she pays attention to what matters most to the client. She asks questions, reflects what she hears, and works with clients to set realistic plans. This approach is aimed at helping people feel understood and make steady progress.
Her background includes a decade of varied clinical experience in Connecticut. That work exposed her to concerns such as OCD, panic, attachment struggles, body image, fertility and pregnancy-related stress, and issues common to women and LGBT clients. Hilary is practical about the tasks of therapy.
She helps people build coping skills, improve self-esteem, and tackle avoidance or impulsive patterns. She also supports those sorting through life changes and searching for clearer purpose.
How Hilary’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience without judgment. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions to issues like self-esteem, relationship stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact. It uses practical exercises and short-term tasks to reduce anxiety, manage panic, address obsessive thoughts, and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try strategies together, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is useful. Phone sessions work well for people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, brief coaching, or a way to share thoughts between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep steady contact with a licensed professional even when schedules or location change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English