About Regina
Regina Hughes is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life moments. She works from Illinois and offers care both for local and international clients. Regina focuses on making therapy a practical step toward feeling better.
Her practice centers on straightforward, respectful listening. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, addictions, and relationship concerns.
How Regina works
She also supports people coping with grief, parenting challenges, career shifts, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. Regina has experience in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings and has worked with adults, teens, and families in clinical roles. Her background includes helping people after emotional or physical abuse and supporting those with academic or behavioral concerns, including autism and ADHD.
She draws on several therapeutic approaches and adapts them to each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer thinking, and stronger emotional feeling and regulation. Regina aims to make therapy useful day to day rather than just theoretical.
People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. She will work with each person to build a treatment plan that fits their goals and life. Regina frames therapy as a step-by-step effort toward more stable mood, clearer choices, and better relationships.
Regina lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Regina works with
The areas below are the ones Regina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching practical ways to move forward despite discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and provides hands-on tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships and can help people improve connection and intimacy.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Regina works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's goals, preferences, and situation. She may combine elements from different approaches and will adjust the focus as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Messaging and live chat work well for short updates, homework support, or when scheduling makes real-time sessions difficult. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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