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. Which 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 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 experience working with queer stories.

About Me

I'm from Bristol originally, and moved back there in 2024, via a few years in New Zealand, a year in France, and 17 years in London. Before starting my practice, my working life spanned the charity sector, Film and TV, and a start-up in the wine trade. My academic life has pretty effectively adhered to the archetype of a kid whose nose was semi-permanently in a book - I like the big ideas that come from the smallest details of life.

As an Integrative therapist, I blend lots of different influences 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 important insight). Consequently, sessions with me are just as likely to feature Aristotle and Simone de Beauvoir as they are The White Lotus or Love Lies Bleeding.