Cora Hilton

Hello, I'm Cora. I specialise in helping Millennials, Gen. Z, and members of the queer community navigate modern life. Life right now is a lot. I offer practical, down-to-earth therapy that gets what it’s like trying to hold it all together today. Finding happiness, stability and hope while so much feels out of control is tough – and although therapy alone can't fix the world, it can help you build your own solid ground within it. Therapy is a space to work out what needs to change, and to start making it happen. Sessions with me are an active, collaborative conversation: you take the lead on what you want to explore, and I help us make sense of what we find. We'll bring clarity to what’s felt confusing, ask the big questions that open new doors, and help you find new ways forward that feel right for you. Together, we’ll figure out how to make your life genuinely feel like yours. ABOUT ME: Originally from Bristol, I moved to New Zealand aged 16, returning to London for university. I studied French, so had a year abroad in France, navigating consuming a lot of bread in between many strikes (Vive la grève!). Post uni, I briefly worked in Film and TV, before joining a start-up in the wine industry. I started my private practice in 2018, after seeing clients at agencies dedicated to bereavement and stress, depression and anxiety during my training. After 17 years in London, I moved back to Bristol in 2024, to be reunited with my West Country comrades. As an Integrative therapist, I bring ideas from lots of different places into my work, beyond just the world of therapy theory. My experience with languages, literature and philosophy ensures these are frequent presences in my therapy room. Also, as a classic Millennial, I am very interested in pop culture, and firmly believe that even truly terrible reality TV can provide a window into ourselves, in the most surprising ways (it’s not only dusty old therapy tomes that house the big ideas). Consequently, sessions with me are just as likely to include ideas from Aristotle and Simone de Beauvoir as they are Mean Girls or The Traitors. MY SPECIALISMS: I’m experienced at working with a wide range of contemporary challenges, including: anxiety and depression / burnout and perfectionism / relationships, communication and boundaries / family challenges / self-esteem and self-criticism / identity, life direction and meaning / bereavement, failure and loss / LGBTQ+ issues and gender, sex and relationship diversity (GSRD) / parenting and queer parenting experiences / career and workplace difficulties / loneliness, feeling lost, and feeling stuck. I also work with lots of people who struggle to express what exactly brings them to therapy, but know that something needs to change - sometimes, nothing in particular is 'wrong', but we know things could feel more 'right'. ​It’s OK to come to therapy without a checklist of issues you want to explore – we can start from wherever you find yourself now. A LITTLE EXTRA: There are some commonalities in who often finds me: I have particular experience of working with creatives, people with a background of high achieving and perfectionism, people in high-pressured careers (including the legal and tech industries), and people navigating IVF and queer parenting journeys. Outside of sessions, I run a Substack and a blog, in which I write about the intersection between pop culture and therapy, and what we can learn from where the two meet. I also still consume a lot of bread (keeping up that Gallic dream), and play weekly football (not well) with my beloved team, who kindly tolerate my very idiosyncratic on-pitch style. I’m sometimes joined in sessions by my calico cat Rizzo, who fortunately adheres to the same confidentiality standards that I do.​ corahiltontherapy.com https://corahiltontherapy.substack.com/