About Hilary
Hilary Jiggins offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain or life changes. She explains how therapy will work in plain language and works alongside clients to find what helps. Her manner is kind and down-to-earth, and she aims to make sessions useful from the start.
Hilary draws on 15 years of experience in counselling and psychotherapy. She combines client-centred listening with evidence-based tools such as cognitive behavioural therapy and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy.
How Hilary works
Sessions can include problem-focused work, skills practice, or longer exploratory conversation depending on what a person wants. Her background includes group and charity work with mental health and bereavement organisations. That experience informs a straightforward, flexible approach that adapts to each person’s needs.
If a suggested method is offered, Hilary will explain the reasoning and check that it feels right for the client. Practical options range from short-term, goal-focused work to longer therapeutic exploration. She uses assessments when useful to track progress but will also offer creative alternatives to worksheets or homework when those do not suit someone.
Sessions are based in the United Kingdom and provided in English. If Hilary judges another practitioner would be a better match for a particular concern, she will recommend a suitable referral.
Hilary lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Hilary works with
The areas below are the ones Hilary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Hilary commonly blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and helping a person lead conversations about what matters most to them; it works well for exploring values, self-esteem and relationship concerns. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical tools to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful patterns. DBT skills teach ways to manage intense emotions, improve distress tolerance and build better emotional regulation in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hilary will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will choose whether to focus on short-term skills and problem solving or to spend more time on deeper exploration of patterns and relationships.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for richer conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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