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Couples and Relationship Therapy

What is couples and relationship therapy?

Couples and relationship therapy offers a supportive space to explore the challenges, tensions, and patterns that may be affecting your relationship. Together, we can work towards greater understanding, communication, repair, and connection, while making space for the complexity that relationships naturally hold.

Therapy can support relationships that feel stuck, disconnected, conflicted, uncertain, or in transition. It can also offer space to deepen intimacy, strengthen communication, and explore how past experiences, attachment patterns, family dynamics, identity, and cultural context may be shaping the relationship in the present.

I work with a wide range of relationship structures and dynamics, including romantic relationships (monogamous and ethically non-monogamous), friendships, sibling relationships, parent–child relationships, chosen family, and other meaningful connections.

What can couples and relationship therapy support with?

  • Navigating life transitions such as parenthood, illness, grief, separation, or children leaving home

  • Exploring questions around fertility, family planning, and parenting

  • Understanding how attachment histories, family dynamics, and early experiences may be influencing your relationship

  • Working through conflict, communication difficulties, emotional disconnection, or recurring relational patterns

  • Rebuilding trust following rupture, betrayal, or infidelity

  • Creating space for conscious uncoupling, separation, or significant relational change with greater care and integrity

  • Exploring how culture, identity, race, neurodivergence, sexuality, gender, religion, or family expectations may be impacting your relationship

  • Deepening intimacy, vulnerability, emotional connection, and sexual wellbeing

  • Developing healthier ways of communicating needs, boundaries, and repair

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My Practice

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I offer couples and relationship therapy as a space to explore the challenges, tensions, and relational patterns that may be impacting your connection. Therapy can support you in navigating communication breakdowns, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, betrayal, uncertainty, or periods of transition and change. I work with a wide range of relationship structures and relational dynamics, including romantic partnerships (monogamous and ethically non-monogamous), friendships, sibling relationships, and parent–child relationships.

My approach centres both the relationship itself and the individuals within it. Often, people arrive in therapy feeling stuck in painful cycles, misalignment, or ways of relating that feel difficult to shift alone. Together, we create a space where each person can feel heard, supported, and accountable, while also attending to the wider relational dynamic at play. Building trust, emotional safety, and clarity is central to the process, allowing difficult material to be explored with honesty, care, and compassion.

At times, therapy may support partners in finding their way back to one another; at others, it may involve navigating conscious uncoupling, separation, or significant relational change. Relationships are often shaped by earlier attachment experiences, family dynamics, trauma, cultural conditioning, and learned patterns of connection and protection. In our work together, we can begin to understand how these histories may be influencing your present dynamic, communication patterns, emotional responses, and capacity for intimacy and repair.

I work in an intersectional and affirming way, recognising that relationships do not exist separately from the wider social, cultural, and political contexts we inhabit. I have experience supporting LGBTQ+ clients, neurodivergent individuals, people navigating cross-cultural relationships, and those whose identities or relationship structures may sit outside dominant norms. Together, we can explore how experiences of difference, marginalisation, masking, shame, family expectation, identity development, or systemic pressure may be impacting your relationship and sense of self within it.

Alongside the relationship you bring into the therapy room, I am also interested in the wider ecology surrounding it. Many of us are culturally conditioned to seek the majority of our emotional support from one person, often a partner, despite human beings fundamentally thriving within broader networks of care, friendship, community, and interdependence. Exploring the wider systems around you — including family, chosen family, friendship groups, cultural values, and community — can offer important insight into the pressures and strengths shaping your relationship.

I approach this work with openness, curiosity, and care, recognising that there are often truths within relationships that can feel difficult to name, both to ourselves and to one another. Therapy can offer a facilitated and supportive space for these conversations to emerge more safely and honestly.

“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
— Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity

Sessions are offered on a sliding scale of £120–180 per 50-minute session. I usually work with couples and relationships on a fortnightly basis, although weekly sessions can be arranged depending on need. We would begin with an initial consultation to explore whether working together feels like the right fit for everyone involved, followed by an initial six-week block of sessions with space for ongoing review. The work may be short-term or open-ended depending on your needs and intentions for therapy.

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