About Joye
Joye Hilton welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, or major life changes. She writes in a direct, calm way and helps clients untangle relationship problems, grief, and issues around identity and self-worth. Joye is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with 13 years of experience and works from South Carolina.
Sessions focus on practical next steps and clearer choices rather than long lists of labels. Her approach blends hands-on strategies and thoughtful listening.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to notice and shift unhelpful thinking. She draws on acceptance and mindfulness skills to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard. Joye also brings client-centered and emotionally-focused practices into sessions.
That means she pays attention to each person’s goals and the emotions that come up in relationships. Together clients look for small changes that make daily life feel more manageable. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care situations, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and family of origin concerns.
She has experience supporting people with ADHD, trauma and abuse, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people who identify as LGBT and helps with identity-related stress. Joye trained in psychology and counseling and has worked in multiple clinical settings.
Her style is practical and respectful. She aims to help people build coping skills they can use right away.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and still move toward the life they value. It teaches acceptance of difficult feelings and small actions that align with what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It breaks concerns into concrete steps and homework you can try between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to emotional bonds and how they affect current relationships; it can help people understand patterns and respond differently to loved ones.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joye will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and how much time they can commit. Together they will try methods that suit the person’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper emotional work is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick reflections, prompts between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, or parenting responsibilities while still using the same therapeutic methods.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English