Suzanne Hillin is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who has over 20 years of experience providing counseling services. She works primarily with people who are coping with moderate depression, anxiety, difficult life transitions such as breakup/divorce/relocation/empty nest, conflict in a peer or family relationship, codependent habits, adult children of a parent(s) with alcoholism or addiction, spouse/partner/ parent of those with alcoholism or addiction, personal growth, adult ADHD and grief/loss. Her ideal client is between the ages of 25-85. Suzanne has two Master's degrees; one in Psychology and the second in Mental Health Counseling, both from Western Kentucky University (WKU). She also has over 10 years of professional experience teaching psychology at WKU and Surry Community College and has made numerous community educational presentations. Suzanne primarily uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), solution-focused therapy, and breath work/physical symptom reduction. Suzanne also recently completed certification in Nutritional Counseling for Mental Health.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, I will find out about you and your present challenges. We will establish goals and see what we can create together. I will explain my approach and what to expect going forward. We will set up a schedule for sessions that works with accomplishing your goals, providing the support needed, and is considerate of the other demands on your time.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As someone who has overcome her own challenges and transitions, I am ready to share with you the keys to achieving freedom from depression, worry, and stress by gaining personal freedom and learning a new psychology of health and joy! I think I am able to empower clients to identify and make healthier choices, have healthier relationships, and gain mastery over life's challenges. I think I can relate to a lot of the challenges people face in achieving a "smoother ride" through life, while navigating the curves and potholes, and staying out of the ditches!
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Reality Therapy
I believe in our ability to create the life we desire by using the concepts of Choice theory. By understanding these concepts, a person can achieve personal freedom while building healthier relationships with the people you love. Choice theory and Reality therapy provide the keys to achieving freedom from depression, worry, and stress by empowering the individual to choose those thoughts and actions that more effectively lead to satisfaction of our essential needs.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT helps us learn to identify the thoughts and actions (behaviors) that are creating our emotional response. Once identified, we can then evaluate their helpfulness, logic, or truthfulness and then challenge any negative cognitions and behaviors, improve our "self talk," and adopt thoughts and actions that promote more positive emotional responses.
Grief Therapy
Grief is an individual experience that does not go through a series of exact stages and may look different than the way others grieve around you. With grief therapy, I am here to support your personal experience and encourage/suggest ways to move with the grief, honoring it, and learning to carry it with love and gratitude for what you shared with your loved one, and finding your acceptance and peace with your loss in your way.
Faith based therapy
For those clients who would like a Christian-based perspective to their counseling, I offer this support using principles of the Christian faith.
Mind-body approach
I am certified in Nutritional Counseling and really emphasize nutritional and lifestyle interventions that can help our brain work better. These approaches can enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatment, and some may even help reduce or eliminate the need for pharmaceutical treatment.