Hilary Jiggins

Hilary Jiggins is a counsellor who aims to make therapy straightforward and relevant. She works in a collaborative way and keeps jargon to a minimum. Her style emphasises kindness, practical steps and adapting sessions to what the client finds helpful.

Hilary draws on a mix of evidence-based methods such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) alongside humanistic ideas that treat each person as an individual. She often uses practical skills from CBT and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to help with day-to-day struggles. She will explain any suggestion she makes and the reasoning behind it so clients understand the purpose of the work.

When someone has a clear, time-limited difficulty Hilary aims to work efficiently to reduce distress and restore routines. She is happy to use tools common in NHS practice, including psychometric measures, when they help track progress. If those tools feel unhelpful, she will adapt the approach and offer other creative ways to work.

If longer term, exploratory work feels right, Hilary can offer a more relational psychotherapy approach. That work typically spends more time on life history and patterns of relating, using the therapeutic relationship itself to support change over months or years.

Hilary trained from a medical science background and has around 15 years of practice that began with group work for the mental health charity Mind. She has experience in charity counselling roles and with a range of adult clients and groups in the United Kingdom.

How Hilary works online and the approaches she uses