Hilary Cartmel-Batty
Support for stress, trauma and life changes
About Hilary
Hilary Cartmel-Batty is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse. She also supports individuals dealing with relationship strain, parenting concerns, addiction and major life changes. Her style aims to make that first step feel manageable and supported.
Hilary creates a calm space where people can talk without fear of being judged. She focuses on listening and helping each person find realistic ways to cope.
Background and approach
Sessions are built around the client’s goals and pace. Her approach draws on attachment-based work and client-centred ways of relating. This means attention to how past connections affect current feelings, and using the person’s own experience as the starting point for change.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set practical, short-term goals. Hilary has worked in counselling and psychotherapy for five years. She combines time on a personal caseload with practice through an online diary.
That means she can sometimes offer either regular weekly slots or more flexible arrangements depending on need. People choose her when they want straightforward support with everyday pressures and complex issues alike. She explains options clearly and helps plan the next steps.
If someone wants to try talking things through, she guides the booking and first-session steps in a friendly way.
What Hilary works with
How Hilary works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this can help people understand recurring trust or closeness issues and try different ways of relating. Client-centred therapy means the session is guided by the person’s priorities. The counsellor listens deeply and follows what the client brings, helping them make sense of feelings and decide on next steps. Solution-focused therapy works by setting small, achievable goals and building on what already helps. It is useful for practical problems and when someone wants a focused path forward.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Hilary will work collaboratively to understand needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This can involve blending approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
