About Shelley
Shelley Hughes is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and relationship worries. She is named Shelley Hughes and uses a warm, straightforward style to help clients talk through difficult feelings. Shelley holds an NCPS credential, which is shown as NCPS in her details.
She has five years of professional experience supporting people through emotional challenges. She works with common concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief and loss, self-esteem and addictions.
Background and approach
Shelley also addresses issues like sleep problems, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger and career transitions. She listens without judgement and helps people find practical steps to ease day-to-day distress. Shelley draws on a mix of evidence-based approaches.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard. Attachment-based ideas are part of how she looks at relationship patterns.
Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-focused. Shelley uses questions, gentle reflection and simple exercises to build coping skills. She aims to help people notice small changes that make everyday life feel more manageable.
Shelley works with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar and depression, caregiver stress and chronic health issues. Her practice accepts international clients and sessions are offered in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to schedule a first appointment.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people live in line with their values while allowing difficult thoughts and feelings to be present. It uses mindfulness and small behavioural steps to reduce the impact of anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns in close relationships and helps people recognise how early bonds shape current reactions and communication in relationships.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that suit the client and adapt them over time if needed.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit work or family life around therapy. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and text-based options provide a shorter check-in or ongoing written support. These formats make therapy more flexible and can help people keep progress going even when life feels busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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