About Regina
Regina Hughes is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience based in Illinois. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life changes. Regina listens without judgment and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Her background includes work in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. That experience gave her practice with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and self-harm risk factors.
Background and approach
She has also supported people with ADHD and autism-related challenges and school-related behavior or learning concerns. Regina’s style is warm and client-centered. She creates a calm space where people can feel heard and respected.
Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking rather than jargon or long lectures. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior techniques, and emotionally focused methods. Regina adapts each plan to the person in front of her and the issues they bring.
That means the work can include skill practice, values-based goals, emotion regulation, or relationship-focused conversations. Regina is straightforward about the process. She helps people set small, achievable steps and checks progress along the way.
Her aim is to help people gain more control over daily stressors and build routines that support long-term well-being.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skills work
Regina uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage thoughts and rebuild routines. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic or persistent worry. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life that matters, even when uncomfortable feelings remain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Regina treats the choice as a collaboration and will discuss which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and daily life. Together they set realistic goals and try techniques in sessions to see what helps most, then adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which lets people choose what works for them. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing skill support. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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