Relationship Therapy

Relationship therapy in my practice focuses on the dynamics that emerge between people over time, particularly where patterns of conflict, disconnection, or difficulty in intimacy become established and difficult to shift. This includes work with persistent relational tensions, breakdowns in communication, and the impact of trauma and attachment patterns within intimate relationships.

 

In practice, this often involves working with difficulties such as affairs and betrayal, ongoing conflict, differences around intimacy and sexuality, financial stress, parenting pressures, and periods of relational breakdown or transition. These experiences are understood not only in terms of the presenting issue, but in the context of wider relational patterns, histories, and expectations of relationship.

 

My approach draws on a range of models, including object relations, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), transactional analysis, and CBT relationship therapy, allowing for both depth-oriented exploration and more structured approaches to relational change.

 

This work is underpinned by my five year training in humanistic psychotherapy and extensive specialist training in relationship work, including a one year training in Transpersonal Relationship Therapy, a two year training in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy and an ongoing two year training in Couple Psychoanalysis. I hold specialist accreditation in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy with COSRT.