Sean Hughes
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About me
How Counselling Can Help
I am an integrative therapist, which means I use integrative humanistic, cognitive behavioural, and psychodynamic approaches, amongst other approaches, to provide support.
As a counsellor and psychotherapist, my role is to provide space and guidance to help you on your journey to self-discovery; and to enable you to examine your life and make new, meaningful choices within it. Many life events have given me the experience to explore my own personal qualities and inequalities with the potential to grow and to identify my own strengths and weaknesses. I have had extensive experience working with people living with dementia, families, and their carers
I offer a chance to reflect on the difficulties or problems you are experiencing in a safe and confidential environment, with someone from outside your day-to-day life. Together we can explore your situation in a way that leads to fresh perspectives - and perhaps a new understanding of yourself. Counselling isn’t about giving you solutions or advice, but empowering you to make your own changes.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have worked in many charitable settings, and I am currently a volunteer with a suicide prevention charity, which provides counselling and psychotherapy to individuals who are experiencing mental unwellness or have suicidal thoughts and provides support to families affected by suicide. I have provided: crisis response, befriending, advocacy, counselling, psychotherapy, signposting, and delivered training.
I have over 20 years of experience working in health and social care, with extensive experience working with people living with dementia, families, and their carers affected by Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Psychotherapy interventions play a crucial role in improving the quality of life for people living with dementia, their families, and carers. An integrative approach can be used to ensure that the care and support offered are tailored to meet the adapting needs of each unique individual.
Becoming a therapist has been the highlight of everything I have achieved in my career and personal life.
Member organisations
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Dementia Specialist
I offer a speciality service for older people, people living with dementia, their carers and families. Counselling and psychotherapy for people with dementia play a crucial role in improving the psychological well-being and quality of life for individuals with dementia. Personalised interventions can adapt to the ever-changing needs of individuals living with dementia, carers, and family members, ensuring that they receive appropriate support. I have worked throughout the United Kingdom and Internationally to improve services and studied a MSc degree in this specialist area.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Sessions last 50 minutes, usually taking place on a weekly basis and cost £50 per session. I also provide a limited number of spaces for those on low income.
Contact me for a free 15 minute consultation. Visit my website for more information, or email me.
Further information
I have worked in the hospital, community, and university setting throughout the United Kingdom and internationally to provide consultancy services with the aim of improving services in health and social care.
