About Greg
Greg Hilgert is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. He focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Greg meets people where they are and helps them take manageable steps toward feeling better.
He uses straightforward, person-focused care to tailor sessions to each individual's needs. Sessions often center on setting goals, changing unhelpful patterns, and building skills for coping with strong emotions.
How Greg works
He brings together techniques from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and trauma-focused methods depending on what a person needs. Greg has worked across a range of clinical settings and has long experience with mood disorders, substance issues, and behavior that stems from family conflict. His background includes work with people facing grief, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, addiction, and parenting stress.
He often combines brief solution-focused steps with cognitive-behavioral strategies to target thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck. Mindfulness practices and trauma-focused tools are used when people are ready to process painful memories or reduce reactivity. People can expect direct, collaborative sessions that emphasize clear goals and practical tools.
Greg practices in North Carolina and speaks English. He holds the LCMHC credential and brings two decades of clinical experience to each meeting.
Greg lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Greg works with
The areas below are the ones Greg selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. It helps people who need a space to talk things through and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and anger by offering concrete tools to try between sessions.
EMDR, an approach used for trauma-focused work, helps people process distressing memories in a paced way so they feel less disruptive. This method is used when trauma memories are part of the problem and the person is ready to process those experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and together they will choose methods that fit. That collaborative process may combine elements from different approaches as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick support, brief reflections, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These choices make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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