About Hilary
Hilary Rock-Gormley is a counsellor who draws on 26 years of practice to help people facing stress and anxiety. She works with clients who are dealing with trauma, grief, depression and major life changes. Hilary approaches each person as the expert of their own story and focuses on practical steps forward.
She uses gentle, client-centred conversations to understand what is most urgent for the person in front of her. Hilary often explores attachment patterns and past experiences to make sense of current feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
This helps people see recurring problems in a new way. When trauma or abuse is part of the picture she offers trauma-focused work alongside psychodynamic thinking to address painful memories and their effects. Solution-focused ideas are also used to set clear, achievable goals and build momentum between sessions.
Hilary supports people with a wide range of concerns, from relationship and intimacy issues to addiction and eating difficulties. She also works with longer-term challenges such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, ageing-related worries and the emotional impact of serious illness. Sessions are offered in English and Hilary accepts international clients.
She holds NCPS as a listed credential and practises from the United Kingdom. Her style is collaborative, steady and aimed at helping people make manageable changes.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Hilary uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and can reduce repeated cycles of hurt or distance.She also uses client-centred therapy which focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard. That approach is useful for people who need space to make sense of difficult feelings and decide what they want to change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hilary will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process can include trying one approach or blending several as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more achievable around daily life. Video gives face-to-face contact, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options help people fit sessions around work, caregiving or other commitments without long travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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