Shelley Hughes, NCPS
Shelley Hughes offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes.
- Stress & Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and Abuse
- +18 more
About Shelley
Shelley Hughes offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. She writes plainly and makes space for difficult emotions. Shelley helps clients talk through relationship problems, grief, trauma and issues around self-esteem and identity.
She aims to make the process straightforward and approachable for someone seeking help for the first time. Shelley brings five years of counselling experience and works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, sleeping and eating difficulties, career stress and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, or the impact of trauma and abuse. Her practice includes areas often linked to relationship and attachment problems, such as abandonment and attachment issues. Her way of working combines evidence-informed approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy.
Shelley focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions and on clarifying values and goals. Sessions are conversational and paced to match what each person needs. Shelley holds NCPS, which is shown as her professional credential.
She offers sessions in English and sees people based in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. Work is available through video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and books a session using the Start Therapy button.
The subscription model used for sessions can be cancelled at any time, and pricing varies with location and therapist availability.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| NCPS | NCS23-00761 | February 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Shelley works with
Everything Shelley lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shelley lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online support
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape patterns today and helps people notice and change unhelpful ways of relating. This can be useful for intimacy-related worries, communication problems and recurring fears of abandonment.
Shelley aims to find the right blend of approaches together with each person. She listens to what matters most, tries out techniques, and adjusts the plan based on progress and preference. That collaborative process helps people choose methods that fit their goals and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller interaction and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is required. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Shelley commonly help with?
Shelley works with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties and trauma. She also supports issues such as self-esteem, addictions, sleep and eating challenges.
What is Shelley’s therapeutic style?
Her sessions are conversational and practical. She uses skills-based methods and helps people set goals they can act on between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Shelley has five years of counselling experience and has worked with a broad range of concerns across that time.
What credentials and location are listed?
Her listed credential is NCPS and she practises from the United Kingdom while also accepting international clients.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
In what formats are sessions available?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what suits the person.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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