Hilary Jiggins
Practical, collaborative therapy with warmth
About Hilary
Hilary Jiggins offers straightforward, compassionate therapy focused on helping people feel steadier and more in control. She aims to work collaboratively and simply, using language anyone can follow. Sessions are practical and tailored to what the person finds most useful.
Hilary holds a BACP credential and practises from the United Kingdom. Hilary uses a blend of evidence-based and humanistic approaches. She often draws on cognitive behavioural methods to address unhelpful thinking and dialectical behaviour skills for emotional regulation.
Background and approach
At the same time she emphasises the therapeutic relationship and treats each person as an individual, adapting tools to suit their needs. Practical progress is important to Hilary. She will explain any suggestions and the reasoning behind them, referencing research and clinical guidance where relevant.
If someone prefers not to use worksheets or structured homework, she offers creative alternatives so work feels manageable. For people who want deeper exploration, Hilary can move into longer-term therapy. That work uses the relationship built in sessions to understand patterns from earlier life and to help reduce problems returning in new forms.
She is clear when longer work may be helpful and will suggest colleagues if a specialist referral is needed. Her background began in medical science and community mental health settings. Over 15 years she has run support groups and worked for charities including Mind and Cruse Bereavement Care.
This range informs a flexible, practical style that balances active strategies with reflective listening.
What Hilary works with
How Hilary works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Hilary combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural and dialectical behaviour therapy tools. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and building an empathic relationship so the person feels understood and accepted; it helps when someone needs a steady, respectful space to talk. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviour link together and offers practical strategies to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits. Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills training teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness for people who struggle with intense emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods together. This collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when discussing complex material is helpful. Phone sessions work well when a quieter, audio-only check-in is needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or busy days while keeping the same therapeutic approaches available.
| 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
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
