Lucy Hughes, NCPS

Lucy Hughes is a warm, down-to-earth counsellor who creates a welcoming space for people to speak openly, feel understood, and begin reconnecting with themselves. She supports adults navigating life’s tender and complicated moments, including anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship challenges, grief, identity struggles, and the feeling of being stuck or lost.

Trained in person-centred counselling, Lucy places an empathic, non-judgemental therapeutic relationship at the centre of her work. She also practices integratively, drawing on a mix of approaches so therapy can be tailored to each person’s needs. Lucy is trauma-informed and committed to making room for all parts of a person’s experience.

She welcomes clients aged 18 and over and has a particular focus on people in their 20s and 30s who may be managing pressure to have everything figured out, carrying unseen emotional weight, or struggling with comparisons to others. As a younger counsellor and a parent, she brings lived empathy, emotional insight, and a gentle but candid manner, with a little humour where it helps the process.

Lucy holds the NCPS credential, a professional qualification indicating training in counselling and psychotherapy. Her areas of speciality include stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression, with additional focus on attachment issues, divorce and separation, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, and self-love. Therapy is offered in English and shaped to move at each person’s pace and in their preferred way.