About Hillary
Hillary Massie is an Ohio-licensed LPCC with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and relationship challenges in a straightforward way. She works with clients on motivation, self-esteem, and building confidence.
Her practice also addresses compassion fatigue and workplace stress. She offers support around mood concerns, panic attacks, and feelings of isolation and loneliness. Hillary creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what matters to them.
How Hillary works
Sessions focus on practical steps that feel doable between appointments. She helps clients clarify priorities and set small, realistic goals. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that follow the person’s lead and cognitive behavioral tools that look at thoughts and actions.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to boost readiness to change and to identify immediate next steps. Systemic ideas help examine patterns that affect daily life. Hillary aims to make the first steps easier by explaining the process and partnering with each person.
She encourages people to bring their worries and practical concerns to sessions. The goal is steady progress toward clearer thinking, stronger coping, and more confidence.
Hillary lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Hillary works with
The areas below are the ones Hillary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's concerns, creating space for honest conversation and self-directed goals. It helps when someone needs empathy and a place to sort through feelings before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect. It uses simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, panic, mood shifts, and workplace stress.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel uncertain about change. It uses guided conversation to boost motivation and clarify why a change matters, which is useful for addiction-related work and improving effort around goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies together, and adapt techniques based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide which tools to emphasize as work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text help with quick check-ins and short, focused support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping continuity of care.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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