Hilary Jiggins , BACP

Counsellor and member of the BACP with 15 years' experience, Hilary Jiggins helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. She also works with addiction, grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, mood difficulties including bipolar and depression, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English from within the United Kingdom.

Hilary takes a plain, practical approach. She explains ideas without jargon and aims to work collaboratively. If there is a specific problem she focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and restore daily functioning. She checks in about progress and adjusts work to what feels useful for each person.

Her background includes medical science and a long involvement in charity counselling services. That experience informs an evidence-aware practice that draws on approaches used in mainstream UK services. Where relevant she can use psychometric measures to track change, explaining the purpose and results in straightforward terms.

Hilary uses a mix of short-term, skills-based techniques and longer exploratory work. She offers Cognitve Behavioural Therapy approaches and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills, alongside client-centred and existential ways of working. If longer psychotherapy is helpful she will discuss what that involves and how it differs from shorter counselling.

She tries to adapt methods for people who find standard formats difficult, offering creative alternatives to written tasks or structured homework. If a concern lies outside her scope she will suggest colleagues with more specific expertise.

How her therapeutic approaches work online