About Hillery
Hillery Ferdinand is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps that can make daily life easier. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients feel steadier and more capable.
She draws on 14 years of experience working with issues linked to trauma and abuse, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and workplace pressures. Hillery pays attention to how identity and culture affect a person’s experience.
Background and approach
She uses that context to shape realistic goals and plans. In sessions she listens for what matters most to each person and builds on existing strengths. That might mean practicing new communication skills, finding ways to manage anger, or working through loss and transitions.
She encourages small, doable changes that add up over time. Hillery uses several practical approaches to guide sessions, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, and trauma-focused techniques. These tools are adapted to each person’s pace and needs rather than applied the same way for everyone.
People can expect a focused, respectful space to name problems and try different strategies. Hillery helps with career stress, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and coping after divorce or separation. Her work also addresses multicultural challenges, veteran and first responder issues, and experiences of prejudice or discrimination.
Approach and online therapy options
Hillery commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to support people online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and responding to each person's needs, which helps when someone wants a space to talk through feelings and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress.She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people notice and regulate strong emotions. Mindfulness exercises can be brief and easy to use between sessions for coping with anger, chronic pain, or stress. Finding the right approach is part of the process and Hillery works with people to choose what fits best. She will discuss goals and preferences, try methods collaboratively, and adjust strategies based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, journaling between sessions, or ongoing reflection without scheduling a full call. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related routines while keeping the work focused on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey
- Languages
- English