Lisa Hughes
Practical support for stress and relationships
About Lisa
Lisa Hughes offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. She specialises in concerns around relationships, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem. She aims to create a warm and non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about what’s worrying them.
With three years of professional experience, Lisa brings practical help and steady encouragement to sessions. She works as an integrative counsellor and adapts her approach to each person’s needs rather than using a single method for everyone.
Background and approach
This means the focus in sessions is on what will help the individual make real changes in their day-to-day life. She also supports issues such as abandonment, body image, chronic pain, illness and disability, isolation and loneliness, narcissism, social anxiety and women’s concerns. The aim is to help people rebuild confidence, manage difficult feelings and improve relationships with others.
Lisa combines short-term strategies with deeper conversation, depending on what a person needs. She invites people to be involved in choosing goals and deciding how therapy proceeds. Her style is supportive, down-to-earth and practical to suit those who want clear steps forward.
She checks messages regularly during the working week and does not work at weekends in order to keep family time. Messages sent over the weekend will be replied to the following Monday.
What Lisa works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Lisa works as an integrative counsellor and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. One common approach she uses focuses on short-term practical strategies to manage anxiety and stress, helping people learn simple tools to calm immediate reactions and cope with daily pressures. Another approach emphasises talking through past hurts and trauma at a pace set by the client, aiming to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve emotional understanding.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as understanding grows. This collaborative way helps decide whether more skills-based work or deeper exploration will be most useful for the individual.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more accessible. Video calls let people use visual cues for a fuller conversation, phone sessions can suit those with limited bandwidth, live chat offers a shorter check-in option and messaging provides an ongoing way to reflect between sessions. These formats allow flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and health commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
