About Shelley
Shelley Hughes offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely, helping people untangle difficult emotions and make straightforward plans they can use day to day. Shelley uses a blend of approaches to suit each person.
Sessions focus on clear steps such as identifying patterns, learning new coping skills and testing small changes. Conversations are direct but warm so people can try things between sessions and notice what helps.
How Shelley works
She brings five years of professional experience and a National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society credential, NCPS. That background informs a steady style that balances practical tools with attention to feelings. Shelley often works with concerns such as relationships, grief, addiction, low self-esteem and mood difficulties.
Other areas she addresses include stress from caring responsibilities, chronic illness, body image, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and responses to trauma. Shelley also supports people facing career strain, compassion fatigue and the aftermath of disasters. Sessions are offered in English and Shelley accepts international clients.
She makes time to adapt sessions to what people need - whether that is skill-focused work, emotion-focused conversation or a mix of both. Her aim is to help people feel more able to manage day-to-day life and to move toward goals that matter to them.
Shelley lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Shelley works with
The areas below are the ones Shelley 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
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing new ways of responding to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. This approach is commonly used for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and helps people build different ways of relating and trusting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shelley will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. She often blends methods so sessions match what a person needs each week, and she checks in to adapt the plan together.
Online therapy with Shelley is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching and people who prefer writing. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caring duties and travel, while keeping the focus on practical skills and emotional change.
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