Sam Hughes - Clinical Supervisor

Qualifications: L4 Diploma in integrative counselling & BA (Hons) Textile Design, Central St. Martins.

Accreditations: BACP Accredited.

Modality: Psychodynamic

Specialisations: Object Relations & Attachment.

Sam Hughes is a Clinical Supervisor at the Awareness Centre. She is also a tutor for the Psychodynamic module of the Awareness Centre’s Diploma in Integrative Counselling. She trained integratively and uses psychodynamic theory, with attention to attachment, as her core modality. She has been working as a therapist in private practice for over 10 years and is BACP registered and accredited.

Sam is dedicated to improved mental health and well-being through increased self-compassion and understanding. She works psychotherapeutically with warmth and collaboration. She has a background in art and design and applies her creative thought processes to her therapeutic work and teaching. Sam is a committed advocate of equal access to therapy in our diverse culture. She has worked with male inmates at Pentonville Prison and as an in-house counsellor at an Islington GP Practice, seeing clients from all walks of life. In 2020 she was given the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the NHS by The Royal College of General Practitioners.