About Hillary
Hillary Paige Gorman is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Oregon with 15 years of experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, grief, or burnout. Her approach centers on meeting each person where they are and building on what already works in their life.
Hillary uses straightforward, practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered work that keeps the person’s goals and experience at the center of sessions. Narrative ideas are used to help people reframe difficult stories and find strengths they may have overlooked. Her background includes long-term work with youth and families who face anxiety and depression, and with people coping with compassion fatigue.
That experience informs how she notices stress responses and designs doable steps for change. She emphasizes simple tools that fit day-to-day life instead of overwhelming homework. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs.
Hillary encourages clear goals, small experiments between sessions, and honest check-ins about what’s helping. Many people come away with better routines, steadier moods, and clearer next steps. Getting started involves a brief matching process and scheduling a time that fits.
Hillary aims to make the first appointments feel manageable and respectful of the courage it takes to start therapy.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how past connections shape current reactions. It can be useful for relationship stress, parenting concerns, and healing from attachment wounds.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and experience, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and build on strengths. This approach helps when someone needs steady support and a trustworthy listener.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior experiments. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear steps to practice between sessions.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend ways to try different strategies together. That makes it easier to adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is low, and texting or chat supports brief check-ins or coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English