About Hilary
Hilary Jiggins is a counsellor with 15 years' experience who aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She keeps language plain and listens first to understand what matters most to each person. People come to her for help with anxiety, depression, phobias and a wide range of relationship and life stresses.
She explains options clearly so clients can choose what feels right for them. Her background includes work with charities such as Mind, Cruse Bereavement Care and others.
Background and approach
Hilary trained from a medical science base and follows evidence-informed methods used across the UK, including cognitive behavioural ideas alongside humanistic practice that centres the person. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. In short-term work she uses focused tools to relieve distress and teach practical coping skills.
This can include activity between sessions if that suits the person, but she adapts tasks to fit individual preferences. She aims for work that reduces symptoms and restores everyday functioning. When people want deeper exploration Hilary offers longer-term, relational psychotherapy.
This looks at patterns in relationships and life history and uses the therapeutic relationship to support change over months or years. She will be honest about whether longer-term work appears more helpful. Hilary also offers flexible session formats such as video, phone, chat and messaging.
If a concern falls outside her remit she will suggest a colleague with the relevant focus.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centred therapy puts the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what matters to the client and follows their lead to build understanding and trust. This approach helps when people need a safe space to talk through relationship patterns, grief or identity questions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, panic, phobias and low mood. Sessions often include clear steps to try between meetings to build new coping habits.
Dialectical behaviour therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches techniques for distress tolerance, emotional regulation and effective communication, which can be useful for impulsive behaviours, anger or overwhelming feeling states.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Hilary will discuss options with each person and agree a plan based on their needs, goals and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process and revisits the plan as things change.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work face to face from different locations, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or busy days. These options help people fit therapy around work, caring roles and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress and relationship-based support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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