About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Hughes works from an empathetic, person-led approach. She blends talking therapy with practical tools to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Her name is Elizabeth Hughes and she brings nine years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom to online practice.
She focuses on issues such as trauma and abuse, addictions, grief and low self-esteem. She also supports people with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, and career or parenting strain.
How Elizabeth works
Additional areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, chronic illness, caregiving stress and communication problems. Sessions centre on building a trusting relationship where the person feels heard and respected. Elizabeth uses a mix of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred listening to suit each person's needs.
She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, practical changes. Therapy often involves learning new ways to manage thoughts, feelings and actions. Work can include identifying values, practising coping strategies and testing out different responses in daily life.
Motivational Interviewing and psychodynamic ideas also inform the way she explores motivation and past influences. Elizabeth offers online sessions in English to people in the UK and internationally. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, indicated by the BACP credential.
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What Elizabeth works with
The areas below are the ones Elizabeth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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 and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Online approaches that combine acceptance and practical work
Elizabeth uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match what matters to you. ACT can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by teaching ways to live in line with personal values.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a hands-on method that helps people spot patterns in thoughts and behaviours and try small experiments to change them. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and for building practical coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elizabeth works collaboratively to see which methods fit a person's goals and style. She adapts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant to what someone wants to achieve.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers real flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, while chat and messaging let people write between sessions or check in without a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life.
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