Hi, my name is Kaylen Hilton, the founder and owner of Counseling with Kaylen. Welcome to my blog! As you might figure out from the name, Counseling with Kaylen is a counseling practice that offers mental health services. This includes everything from individual sessions to group sessions to christian counseling. Those, however, are just the basics.
I first started on this journey of Counseling with Kaylen back when I was in middle school (yes, middle school) and started wanting to be a therapist. My hope was that I could one day help people who were going through hard times and felt the way I had been feeling. When I was in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with epilepsy, a seizure disorder. After receiving this diagnosis, I felt different and rejected, and I started to experience feelings of anxiety and depression. However, this experience also inspired me. I knew there were many people who experience anxiety, depression, and more . My hope was that I would one day be able to help.
"My hope was that I could one day help people who were going through hard times & felt the way I had been feeling."
Heading into college, I knew *exactly* what I wanted to do. I was determined to get a degree in psychology. One day, while chatting with a therapist who had come into the YMCA where I worked at the front desk, they told me about a way I might could graduate faster. They explained how if I got my bachelor's in social work, I could do an accelerated master's program and become what I had always wanted to be even faster. Though it all made sense in my head, my heart had always planned on a psychology degree. How could I change now? I ended up deciding to meet with a social work advisor to ask a few questions, and it all came together. I switched my degree, and now have both a Bachelor's and Master's of Social Work from the University of Georgia.
After graduation, I work almost two years at the community service board I had interned at in college. Then, in 2020, I transitioned into working with a group practice and eventually out into the private practice world.
Counseling with Kaylen was born!
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