Hiram Faircloth

Hiram Faircloth is an Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with seven years of clinical experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, career and life purpose concerns, and helps people cope with major life changes. He also works with issues related to LGBT identities and sexual minority communities.

Hiram trained in counseling and psychology at Troy University and earned an Educational Specialist degree in Clinical Mental Health from Auburn University at Montgomery. He has provided services in community mental health, a university counseling center, and an inpatient behavioral hospital. Those settings inform a practical approach to everyday problems.

He draws on a mix of methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, person-centered techniques, developmental counseling ideas, and mindfulness-based practices. In sessions he helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and practice attention techniques that reduce stress.

He is an affirming counselor with additional education supporting LGBTGEQIAP+ clients and people involved in BDSM and alternative sexual cultures. That background guides conversations about identity, gender dysphoria, and relationship or community concerns without judgment.

Hiram often works with adults, college students, older adults, and people navigating fatherhood, caregiving, blended family matters, or midlife transitions. He addresses communication problems, loneliness, guilt, and questions about life purpose in concrete ways.

In early sessions he focuses on what matters most to the client and sets practical goals. Sessions tend to be problem-focused and skills-oriented, with space for exploring family of origin issues and emotional patterns that keep people feeling stuck.

How his approaches translate to online work

Hiram commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral techniques and mindfulness-based practices. Cognitive Behavioral work involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness-based practices focus on simple attention and breathing exercises to lower stress and improve focus.

He also uses person-centered and developmental counseling ideas that emphasize clear listening and understanding how past patterns shape current choices. Those approaches help when someone is feeling stuck about career direction, identity questions, or midlife transitions. Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort; he will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods as therapy progresses.

Confirm current session formats before booking since specific online options are not listed here. In general online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving by removing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited, while video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Licensed professionals, including therapists like him, will work with clients to choose the format that best fits schedules and day-to-day life.