About
Jennifer Hughes is a therapist working within the Cedar Therapy Team at Priory Hospital Hayes Grove. She provides couples therapy, one-to-one EMDR, and integrative treatment, with a particular interest in supporting people living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Jennifer has experience working as a therapist in prison settings and runs a private practice, where she offers therapy to both individuals and couples, as well as clinical supervision to other therapists. She previously volunteered for many years with a leading relationship counselling charity, where she held roles as a therapist, supervisor, and trainer. She now acts as an external moderator for the organisation.
Training
- Integrative therapy (University of Greenwich)
- Couples therapy training
- BPS update course in advanced Supervision skills
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) with Sue Johnson
- Mentalisation-Based Therapy with couples at the Tavistock Institute for Couple Relations
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
Research interests
- Article published in December 2019 in Therapy Today (with Amarpreet Ajji), entitled Counselling in Men’s Prisons.
- Currently writing a self-help book on conflict in couples' relationships