Cora Hilton

Hello, I'm Cora. I specialise in helping Millennials, Gen. Z, and members of the queer community navigate modern life. I find it's hard to write about therapy without it sounding…well, like a lot of therapy-speak. And that isn't ideal, since it makes it harder for you - the reader - to find someone that feels like a real person, rather than TherapyGPT. So, I’ll do my best to avoid the cliches, and try to give you something more concrete to work with. I offer practical, down-to-earth therapy that gets modern life. I've been working with Millennials and Gen Z since I opened my private practice at the end of 2018, which in real terms means I've been here with you in the trenches since before Lana Del Rey dropped her Norman Rockwell album. I'm proud to have spent these years working with people with all sorts of diverse lived experience - and as the Lana reference may have hinted, I also have particular knowledge of working with queer stories. 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. Post uni, I briefly worked in Film and TV, before joining a start-up in the wine industry. Prior to starting my private practice, I saw 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/