Dr. Hurey Hughes
Empathetic LCSW focusing on practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Hurey
Dr. Hurey Hughes is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of professional experience. He holds an LCSW and practices from North Carolina.
He focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and parenting questions. He creates a welcoming space where clients can speak freely about what worries them. Sessions aim to reduce blame and increase useful skills.
He talks through goals and small steps to try between appointments.
Background and approach
Dr. Hughes often uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. He also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to manage strong emotions and Motivational Interviewing to build motivation for change.
These methods are explained simply and applied to everyday problems. He brings experience with topics including LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care issues, and intimacy-related matters. Additional focus areas listed include ADHD, bipolar concerns, eating and sex-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
Practical coaching around career decisions, coping with life changes, and improving self-esteem is part of his work. He encourages clients to test small changes and notice what helps them feel more in control. Sessions are offered in English and follow his training as an LCSW.
Dr. Hughes seeks to partner with each person to find approaches that fit their life and goals.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Dr. Hughes commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that contribute to anxiety or low mood, and then test different actions to change how they feel. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments to try between sessions.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT techniques can help when feelings feel overwhelming or when stress makes relationships harder. Motivational Interviewing helps people identify their own reasons to change and build commitment at a comfortable pace.
Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow for flexible scheduling, quicker check-ins between sessions, and continued momentum when in-person meetings are difficult. Licensed professionals can work with clients remotely using these formats to deliver the same skill-based approaches and step-by-step planning that guide in-person care.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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