Alison Hughes
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About me
I provide a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental space to explore what may be contributing to your current difficulties, offering an environment for you to express anger or need without the risk of retribution. With frequent contact with this empathetic relationship, we can start to build a model for safe, healthy relationships.
Working integratively means I draw upon different forms of therapy, including Humanistic, Existential and Psychodynamic; tailoring the work to the individual, adapting each form appropriately for the situation. This is all underpinned by a wholehearted, compassionate approach.
Counselling can relieve mental or emotional distress by helping us recognise inner conflicts and issues of which we are unaware. When faced with difficulty, children instinctively form psychological defences that help them adapt to their environment and reduce anxiety. In adulthood, the adaptions that were once effective in avoiding pain can negatively impact our relationships in the here and now.
Part of the therapeutic process is bringing unconscious feelings into awareness so we can understand ourselves and our relationship with the world around us, making us better equipped to face life’s challenges and gain emotional resilience and maturity.
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling (Postgraduate degree equivalent).
Experience includes:
- Substance and behavioural addiction
- 12 step recovery programmes
- Trauma from a Polyvagal perspective
- OCD
- Pure O
- Anxiety
- Social anxiety
- ADHD
- Domestic violence
- Bereavement
- Depression
- Low self-esteem
- Disordered eating
- Suicidal ideation (suicidal thoughts)
- LGBT+ affirming
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
£70 per 50 minute session.
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