Cora Hilton Therapy

10/10/2024

World Mental Health Day 2024 focuses on . As a specialising in working with and Gen. Z, here are some thoughts from the room on why these generations are particularly impacted by burnout . Thanks Welldoing.org for publishing!

The theme for World Mental Health Day 2024 is burnout. Therapist Cora Hilton, specialist in working with Millennials and Gen Z, explores why these generations are so burnt out at work

31/01/2024

A frequent topic of conversation in my therapy room is our relationship with needs, and how to engage with them despite worries they make us 'needy' or 'weak'. I wrote about a short story that has provided insight for many of those conversations:

The Crane Wife is a short story written by CJ Hauser, which I originally happened across in The Paris Review in 2019 (you can read it here). Since then, it’s a piece of writing that has consistently come into conversations in the therapy room, because it explores a particularly universal subject: ...

24/03/2023

I've published a new blog post, about the novel 'Fleishman is in Trouble'. If you fancy a spot of weekend reading, you can find it on my website, here:

Fleishman is in Trouble is a novel (and now also a TV series, which I haven’t yet watched – it’s in the queue, after The Mandalorian and Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr, the latter being the televisual event of the year) about a family – the titular Fleishmans – who we join on the m...

14/03/2023

I've started a blog, writing about from a therapist's perspective (spoiler alert: I'm the ). Posts about , , and : All or Nothing are already live: https://www.echtherapy.co.uk/blog

26/08/2022

Very happy to have received my BACP Accreditation today! Here's a brief explainer about what Accreditation means:

24/08/2022

I enjoyed (except the ending!) the Amazon All or Nothing: Arsenal documentary, and wrote an article about the mental health challenges it showed the team addressing. **Jungian analysis of Mikel Arteta's whiteboard drawings not included

All or Nothing: Arsenal is an Amazon docuseries following Arsenal's 2021/2022 season. Therapist Emily Hilton explores how the series captures some key points about mental health, even off the pitch.

09/06/2022

Enjoyed contributing to this article by Metro, about coming out to your partner:

Remember, it doesn't have to be perfect.

03/05/2022

Enjoyed this article about an experience of long-term therapy, in Saturday's Guardian:

Therapy was like finding a key for a door that had been locked my whole life. Here are the nine things it’s taught me

24/01/2022

New year, no booze? Here's an article I wrote for Welldoing.org about alcohol and mental health, for Dry January (yes, it's still January...)

Alcohol is often thought of as a disinhibitor, something that helps people be 'more themselves'. Therapist Emily Hilton explores why this might be a misunderstanding that is harmful to mental health.

19/02/2021

Here's an article I wrote for Welldoing.org about Drag Race and therapy. It isn't titled 'UK, hun?', just as a brief spoiler alert. https://welldoing.org/article/ru-paul-drag-race-value-listening-inner-critic-compassion

Hit show Ru Paul's Drag Race is currently airing its second season in the UK. Therapist Emily Hilton reflects on themes of self-sabotage, negative self-talk, and the need for self-compassion that the show encourages.

26/10/2020

Great read from yesterday's Observer. It's so important to see men starting conversations about their challenges with body image, as this is unfortunately a wide-spread issue that silence and stigma help to perpetuate. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/25/no-more-mr-muscle-the-activists-raising-body-confidence-for-men

Body image issues are rising fast among men. But positivity campaigners are raising the profile of men of all shapes and sizes

07/07/2020

Here's an article I wrote about an aspect of my lockdown experience. Fortunately, Welldoing.org managed to resist the temptation to title it 'Cycle-Therapy', so they clearly have a lot more strength in the face of a terrible pun than I: https://welldoing.org/article/3-steps-challenge-your-self-limiting-beliefs

Many of us have firm ideas about who we are and what we can and can't do. These beliefs may feel more like facts, and are known as restricting narratives...

12/06/2020

This is an article from the start of the year, which I think is very relevant to re-read now. Both as individual therapists and as a collective of mental health practitioners, we need to do more to support BAME mental health. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/10/therapy-failing-bme-patients-mental-health-counselling

Black and minority ethnic people are more likely to develop mental health conditions but less likely to access counselling – or find it fit for purpose. Are more BME therapists the answer?

25/05/2020

Thought this was a great post from eco-friendly flower people Petalon regarding the challenges of negotiating social media during lockdown: https://www.petalon.co.uk/the-petalon-post/2020/5/22/instagram-vs-reality?utm_source=FLOWERS+FOR+THE+WEEK&utm_campaign=dbef52c411-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_07_07_29_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dad26409be-dbef52c411-237547189&mc_cid=dbef52c411&mc_eid=6b417d3d25

Instagram vs reality: it's a well-discussed topic. We know there's a vast difference between the two, yet it doesn't really stop us from comparing our own lives with those polished, perfected and well-edited squares. And not only that, when thinking of our own lives, we don't consider our highlights

06/04/2020

A handy article about preparing for video therapy sessions, written by my co-speaker at the BACP's January 2020 'Working with Millennials' conference - Julia Bueno. https://welldoing.org/article/how-prepare-online-therapy-session

Now that the UK is in lockdown, clients and therapists are switching to working online. Therapist Julia Bueno explains how to prepare for an online thera...

31/03/2020

It's been widely-shared already, and for good reason - I took a lot from the reflections in this interview, and its thoughts on how to acknowledge, manage and find meaning in our experiences of this pandemic: https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief