About Hilary
Hilary Stover is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) in South Carolina and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Oregon. She brings 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance use concerns. Hilary works with adults and adolescents and focuses on practical skills people can use day to day.
She uses clear, step-by-step methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Hilary also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness strategies to build emotion regulation and present-moment awareness. Her style is direct, warm, and goal-oriented. Over her career she has worked in community agencies, personal hospitals, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and in independent practice.
That range of settings informs how she adapts interventions to different life situations and stressors. She emphasizes finding existing strengths and building on them. Sessions focus on learning and practicing skills for coping, improving relationships, and managing mood and motivation.
Hilary helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and replace them with more useful habits. She supports work on issues such as grief, parenting challenges, body image, chronic illness, and addiction concerns. Therapy with Hilary is collaborative and practical.
Together clients set clear goals, try small changes, and track progress. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based sessions to fit different needs and schedules.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Hilary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones, which can ease anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors.She also incorporates mindfulness techniques to help people stay present and reduce rumination. Mindfulness practices are simple and can be used during short breaks, before sleep, or when anxiety spikes. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels helpful.
Online appointments make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in option. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and quick skill practice between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so people can work on goals in ways that match their routines and needs.
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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