Hilary Jiggins , BACP

Hilary Jiggins is a BACP-registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 15 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship pain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief and a wide range of other concerns that often affect life at home. Hilary aims to be straightforward about how therapy will run and to work alongside each person to find what helps.

Hilary uses a mix of evidence-informed and human-centred ways of working. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills training for practical tools to manage symptoms. She also offers client-centred and existential perspectives when a more reflective, meaning-focused approach is helpful.

Sessions can include active skill work such as mood monitoring, behavioural experiments or DBT-style skills practice. Hilary is open to using psychometric measures similar to those used in NHS settings if a client wants to track progress, but she will adapt tasks if traditional paperwork or homework does not suit someone.

If a longer-term, exploratory process is needed, she can move into more relational psychotherapy that looks at patterns from the past and how these show up now. She explains her thinking when suggesting approaches and asks clients what level of explanation or detail they want.

Hilary began in mental health group work with the charity Mind and later worked with organisations such as As You Are, Cruse Bereavement Care and Sussex Communities Development Association. She has experience with adults, groups, couples and young people and will refer on when a client’s needs are outside her scope.

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