Therapist profile
Lila Hughes, LPC
Pennsylvania
Licensed Professional Counselor - Codependency and Addiction
Continue with LilaWhere Lila stands
- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LPC, Pennsylvania / PC013972
- NPI
- 1770230955
- Experience
- 5 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Pennsylvania
About
- Client-centered approach
- Cognitive behavioral work
- Caregiver support
About Lila
Lila Hughes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with five years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also supports those coping with caregiving, aging issues, codependency, and compassion fatigue.
She focuses on building a straightforward working relationship. Sessions look at what you want to change and what gets in the way. Lila uses practical conversations to uncover patterns, strengths, and next steps. She aims to help people find coping strategies they can use between sessions.
Her approach draws on client-centered techniques that prioritize the person’s perspective. She mixes in cognitive behavioral methods to notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and narrative ideas are used to slow down, track responses, and reframe difficult stories.
She has experience supporting people through early stages of chronic or terminal illness and providing assistance to caregivers and survivors. That work informed her interest in hospice and end-of-life counseling and in helping people manage guilt, forgiveness, and loss.
Conversations also cover practical life areas such as sleep, career stress, and communication problems. Lila invites clients to try small experiments or steps and then look at what worked. To begin, clients follow the site intake steps to schedule a first session and complete a short matching questionnaire.
How sessions work
How Lila applies approaches to online work
Online sessions use practical methods that translate well over video or phone. Client-centered work focuses on listening to your concerns and priorities, letting you set goals and the pace of work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then tries small, doable changes to test what helps. Mindfulness techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices that can reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with you to pick methods that match your needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying an idea, noticing how it feels, and adjusting the plan rather than committing to one fixed method up front.
The site intake process guides you to schedule a first session after completing a short matching questionnaire. Session format details are not listed in the biography, so confirm which formats are offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for check-in conversations that slot into work breaks or caregiving schedules.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, as well as codependency and caregiver stress.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a client-centered style paired with practical techniques from CBT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches to focus on real-life changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of clinical experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor working with a range of concerns including hospice and caregiver support.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the site.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.