Elaine Hughes, LICSW, LCSW
Licensed in New Jersey · 19 years in practice
Elaine Hughes is a licensed clinical social worker with nearly two decades of practice.
License and registration
- LCSW, New Jersey
- 44SC05390900 · expires August 2026
- LICSW, Vermont
- 089.0134482 · expires January 2028
- LCSW, New Hampshire
- 5115 · expires October 2026
- NPI
- 1407167166 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 19
- Languages
- English
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About Elaine
Elaine Hughes is a licensed clinical social worker with nearly two decades of practice. She brings 19 years of experience and holds a Vermont LICSW and a New Hampshire LCSW while practicing from New Jersey. Elaine focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and life changes.
She thinks people know their own stories best and builds on their strengths. In sessions she listens closely, helps sort priorities, and offers tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Her manner is direct but warm, aimed at making difficult topics easier to talk about. Elaine uses approaches that match a person’s needs rather than one fixed method. She draws on a mix of skills from attachment-based work, cognitive behavior strategies, mindfulness, dialectical behavior ideas, and emotionally-focused techniques.
That variety lets her shift focus as concerns change over time. Common goals she helps with include managing overwhelming feelings, coping after loss, finding steadier moods, and making sense of painful events. She also addresses issues like caregiving stress, medical or chronic illness challenges, relationship patterns rooted in attachment, body image, and communication problems.
Sessions typically involve clear, practical steps and simple experiments to try at home. Elaine encourages small changes that add up and checks progress together. She aims to make therapy feel useful and doable for people juggling busy lives.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Elaine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Approaches Elaine names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How Elaine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions can help people identify recurring patterns and practice new ways of relating in day-to-day life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In virtual sessions Elaine helps clients notice unhelpful thinking, test new ideas, and try short exercises between meetings to build different habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving tolerance for stress. This often includes straightforward, step-by-step skills practice that translates well to video or phone check-ins.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Elaine will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most practical. Together they pick strategies to try and adjust them over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to touch base between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it possible to keep continuity of care while fitting work, caregiving, or treatment schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, body image, and communication problems.
What is her approach in sessions?
Her style combines listening with practical strategies. She uses techniques from attachment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, dialectical behavior methods, and emotionally-focused approaches as needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 19 years of professional experience working with people facing anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and related concerns.
What credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds a Vermont LICSW and a New Hampshire LCSW and practices from New Jersey.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote therapy options.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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