About Shelley
Shelley Hughes is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for those facing difficult life moments. Shelley aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and achievable for people who are unsure where to begin.
Shelley uses practical talking and listening to help people make sense of what they are facing. She works alongside clients to identify useful steps, coping strategies and small changes that can make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and pace is set according to each person’s needs. Her background includes five years of clinical experience and a professional credential listed as NCPS. That experience has included work with a wide range of concerns such as trauma, grief, relationship issues, low self-esteem, addiction and mood difficulties.
Shelley also supports people with focus areas like attachment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiving stress. Therapeutic methods she draws on include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy. Shelley blends these approaches to match what a person says they need in session rather than following a single fixed method.
Sessions are offered in English and Shelley accepts international clients. She aims to build a calm working relationship where people can talk frankly about hardships and practical next steps. Her style is warm, direct and aimed at helping people regain more control over daily life.
How Shelley’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting trapped by them, and then take actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and encourages small practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Shelley will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and day-to-day life and then choose methods that fit. She adapts techniques over time, checking in to make sure the work remains useful and manageable.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and short messaging or chat can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to use audio or video. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, travel or caregiving commitments while keeping the focus on practical change and steady support.
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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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