Cora Hilton Therapy

29/10/2025

While the country is united in listening to Lily Allen's new album on repeat, I've written a post about what West End Girl tells us about shame.

A West End pearl of wisdom...

29/10/2025

I've recently joined Substack. I’m writing about the intersection between pop culture and therapy, and what we can learn from where the two meet. I've just added a new post about Mae Martin's new series, Wayward. Read it and others here:

A dive into 'Counsel-Culture': pop culture as seen through the eyes of a therapist. Click to read The PsychGeist, by Cora Hilton, a Substack publication. Launched 20 days ago.

29/10/2025

This year's World Mental Health Day addresses the question of how to cope with overwhelm from global events and relentless bad news. Thinking optimistically, I wrote an article for Welldoing.org, asking whether hope is a thing of the past.

To mark World Mental Health Day on October 10 therapist Cora Hilton encourages us to hang on to our feelings of hope, to avoid being overwhelmed by global events and relentless bad news

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.