Neill Hughes, BACP

Neill Hughes is an accredited and registered person-centred and cognitive behavioural therapist with a background in complex trauma, PTSD, attachment issues, and autism. He combines a person-led, motivational, and strength-based stance with practical cognitive and behavioural strategies to help people manage anxiety, anger, depression and addictive behaviours. Neill also works with relationship and family difficulties, grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, career changes, and ADHD-related issues.

He holds accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - which is the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. He trained to a high standard academically, earning a first class BA Hons in person-centred counselling and psychotherapy from Middlesex University, and achieved top grades in both a certificate and a diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy accredited through the University of the West of Scotland. He is also a certified Schema Therapist through the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST).

Neill has completed specialist trainings including Trauma-Focused CBT for PTSD and Mentalization-Based Therapy for families at the Anna Freud Centre, ADOS-2 assessment training for autism, and Motivational Interviewing at the Tavistock and Portman. He draws on DBT skills for emotional regulation alongside trauma-focused methods to support processing and recovery. He offers parental support and practical guidance, and works collaboratively with people to reduce unhelpful thinking, build resilience, and move toward meaningful change. Beginning therapy can feel difficult, and Neill emphasises a respectful, accepting, and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship to help clients explore their experiences and goals.