Natasha Hughes, BACP

Natasha Hughes is a Licensed Professional Counsellor (LPC) based in the Liverpool region of the United Kingdom who combines warmth and clinical expertise to support people through difficult life experiences. She acknowledges the courage it takes to seek help and creates a respectful, non-judgmental space to explore feelings, patterns, and behaviours that arise when navigating stress, loss, or trauma.

With experience working with both adults and young people, Natasha has supported individuals facing depression, anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, post-traumatic stress, substance misuse, mania, hoarding, and dissociation linked to traumatic events. She also addresses relationship difficulties, loss and bereavement and has worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds, sexual orientations, genders, religions and cultures.

Natatsha works in a client-focused way, tailoring therapeutic approaches to each person. She uses cognitive therapy to identify how thoughts influence feelings and actions and to explore unhelpful coping strategies that have developed over time. She also offers trauma-informed work using EMDR, an approach aimed at processing distressing memories and their emotional impact. Natasha is a member of BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which reflects her commitment to professional standards.

Her counselling style is attentive and compassionate, aimed at helping people move from vulnerability toward greater relief and a more fulfilling life. She welcomes the opportunity to meet and work with new clients.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Natasha Hughes draws on evidence-informed approaches adapted for online work to meet each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change thought patterns and behaviours that contribute to anxiety, depression and unhelpful coping strategies; it is action-oriented and often focused on practical skills. EMDR is used for trauma processing and involves structured techniques to help reduce the emotional intensity of distressing memories and their ongoing effects. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, accepting relationship in which the therapist follows the client’s lead to build insight and self-compassion, and it can be helpful for relationship issues, grief and self-esteem concerns.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. Natasha works collaboratively with each person and with other registered professionals as needed to determine which methods best fit the client’s goals, preferences and presenting concerns, adjusting the plan over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into busy lives and to connect across distances. These formats allow consistent access to therapy, support continuity of care, and make it possible to choose the mode of communication that feels most comfortable for the individual.