Mr Owen Hughes is a Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Head of the Powys Living Well Service, Powys Teaching Health Board, where he has held his current post since 2020. He provides independent, court-compliant expert witness evidence through Pain Expert on the psychological effects of persistent pain, across personal injury and clinical negligence claims.
Mr Owen Hughes has worked in the psychological management of physical and mental health for over 30 years, mostly within the NHS. Between 2022 and 2025 he served as National Clinical Lead for Persistent Pain for the Welsh Government and NHS Wales Executive. He is currently Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Head of the Powys Living Well Service, Powys Teaching Health Board, a post he has held since 2020, and is also Director of Psych45 Ltd, a position he has held since 2010. In his career he has held clinical lead roles across psychological trauma services, chronic pain services, chronic fatigue services, and weight management, including Head of the Pain and Fatigue Management Service at Powys Teaching Health Board from 2003 to 2020. Working across multidisciplinary teams throughout his career has shaped his approach to physical and mental health as interlinked aspects of a person’s overall wellbeing.
Mr Owen Hughes has over 20 years of experience preparing psychological medico-legal reports for civil proceedings in England and Wales. He is instructed by solicitors acting for claimants and defendants, as well as on a joint instruction basis, in accordance with Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules. His areas of expertise include the psychological effects of physical and psychological trauma, with particular focus on the assessment of mental health difficulties in the context of chronic pain, the impact of childhood abuse on physical and mental health, chronic fatigue syndromes including Long Covid, and functional neurological disorder (FND). His medico-legal practice also covers the psychological consequences of accidents, deliberate injuries, clinical negligence and breaches of duty, including PTSD and other trauma-related disorders, diagnosis under DSM-5-TR and ICD-11, and recommendations for treatment to reduce loss of function and duration of psychological injury.
Mr Owen Hughes holds an MSc in Counselling Psychology and a Post-MSc Diploma in Counselling Psychology from City University, and a BSc (Hons) in Applied Psychology from Cardiff University, including a year at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society. He is an HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist, and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Mr Owen Hughes completed his Expert Witness Certificate through Cardiff University and Bond Solon in 2007.
Our chambers team will review your instruction, and connect you with the consultant pain expert. We’ll arrange a short call to agree scope, timelines, and fees from the outset – so the evidence is first-time-right and compliant with CPR Part 35.
Every enquiry is handled in confidence and in line with GDPR.
Our chambers team will review your instruction, and connect you with the consultant pain expert. We’ll arrange a short call to agree scope, timelines, and fees from the outset – so the evidence is first-time-right and compliant with CPR Part 35.
Every enquiry is handled in confidence and in line with GDPR.