Hillary Ely is a licensed professional counselor (LPC 008539) with over ten years of experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Her passion is journeying with people on an individual basis in the midst of their pain and suffering to help offer encouragement, joy, and hope for their future. Her desire is to help people build healthier lifestyles and relationships. Hillary believes the counseling relationship can help people gain self-awareness and improve relational patterns.

Her areas of interest include depression, anxiety, trauma, bipolar disorder, Christian counseling, grief, boundaries, women's issues, and stress management. Hillary uses primarily person-centered and cognitive behavior therapy in session. This allows clients to feel heard and validated in their experiences while also helping them to look at their thought patterns and how those are impacting their life experiences. Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps people to look at their distorted thinking and how it influences their feelings about given situations. It also challenges those negative thought patterns and encourages more rational thinking. The idea is that how people think impacts how they feel and behave, so changing their thinking can change how they feel and act.

Hillary has a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Georgia and a Masters in Professional Counseling from Richmont Graduate University, with a specialization in trauma. She is a professing Christian and loves to incorporate her faith and Scriptures into the counseling relationship when clients are open to and desire that. Hillary is happily married and she and her husband have three children.