Meet Chelsea

SERVING AGES 3+ FOR INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY THERAPY, & PARENT CONSULTATIONS

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CHELSEA HUGHES, LPC

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Certifications

  • NC LCMHCS  #6787

  • NCC Approved Clinical Supervisor #ACS-4622

  • Registered Play Therapist Supervisor #S3312

  • National Certified Counselor #220403

  • Circle of Security Parenting® Facilitator

  • Circle of Security Parenting Classroom® Facilitator

  • Parenting Coordinator

  • Emotionally Smart® Leadership

Training & Education

  • Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and the Playroom

  • Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Play Therapy

  • Supervision within Play Therapy

  • Intense Clinical Supervision Training: Best Practices

  • Thinking Psychoanalytically: The Basics Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas

  • Attachment and Psychoanalysis: Developing the Capacity for Secure Relating in Adults

  • Enneagram Growth: The Art of Typing

  • Racial Equity Institute, Phase 1

  • Sandtray Therapy

  • The Neurobiology of Attachment NICABM

  • Child Development for the Play Therapist

  • Polyvagal Informed Therapy Master Class

  • Implementing Play Therapy Intervention with Neurodivergent Children

Publications & Media

  • Birch, J.M. & Carmichael, K. (2009). Using drawings in play therapy: A Jungian approach. The Alabama Counseling Association Journal, 34(2), 2-8.

  • “Jennifer Birch on children, emotions, parenting, and faith,” Wintering Faith podcast, June 15, 2021.

  • “Cooper, Cohen, NC Education leaders call for reopening more schools,” WRAL, February 21, 2021.

  • “NC Senate to take up bill requiring schools to have in person learning option,” CBS17, February 3, 2021.

  • “NC therapist says mental health crisis among kids is growing,” ABC11, January 29, 2021.  

  • “On the pandemic’s hidden front line, children and teens struggle with the mental stress,” Raleigh’s News & Observer, December 27, 2020.

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