Cheryl Hughes, BACP, NCPS

Cheryl Hughes is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She has five years of professional experience supporting adults with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, and anger. Cheryl accepts international clients and works in English.

Cheryl uses a person-centred, humanistic approach that places the client at the centre of sessions. She focuses on listening and helping people make sense of their experiences. In practical terms this means talking through current problems, patterns in relationships, and how past experiences shape present reactions like anger or withdrawal.

Her practice includes work on trauma, bereavement, sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress, including historic abuse affecting men. She also helps people with career and life-change stresses, body image and self-esteem, and issues such as codependency, communication problems and control concerns. Sessions aim to identify what matters to the client and to develop clearer ways of responding to difficult feelings.

Cheryl describes the work as calm and unhurried. Early sessions cover what will happen in therapy and what a client hopes to achieve. That planning helps make future sessions more focused, whether the concern is ongoing anger, relationship friction, or coping after loss.

She draws on attachment-based ideas and trauma-focused perspectives while keeping the sessions centred on the person. This approach supports practical talking, reflection on patterns, and building more manageable ways of coping day to day.

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