About Joye
Joye Hilton welcomes people who are juggling big emotions and life changes. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around self-esteem. She also supports clients facing parenting challenges, career transitions, trauma and abuse, and concerns tied to identity and relationships.
Joye is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC who brings 13 years of clinical experience. She draws on training in multiple practical approaches to make therapy feel useful and grounded.
How Joye works
Sessions focus on clear goals, real skills, and noticing what matters most to each person. Her work pays close attention to family dynamics and early attachment patterns. That includes difficulties related to adoption, foster care, blended family situations, family of origin issues, and separation or divorce.
She also addresses commitment and communication problems and caregiver stress. Joye uses methods that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered techniques, and cognitive behavioral tools to help people change unhelpful thinking and take values-based action. She also brings elements of emotionally-focused work and existential approaches when questions about meaning, relationships, and identity come up.
Therapy sessions are practical and conversational. Joye aims to build small, manageable steps toward better coping. She accepts international clients and offers sessions suited to different schedules and needs.
Joye lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Joye works with
The areas below are the ones Joye selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist listens and reflects so clients can find their own answers and build confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns and behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Joye will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit best, based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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