Couple
What is couples therapy about?
Couples seek therapy for many different reasons. You may be struggling with communication difficulties, recurring conflict, sexual or intimacy concerns, the impact of an affair, trust issues, life transitions, parenting challenges, loss and bereavement, addiction, trauma, or the pressures of work and family life.
Sometimes a specific event has placed the relationship under strain. At other times, couples find themselves caught in patterns that have developed gradually over the years and are becoming increasingly difficult to navigate alone.
How does it help couples?
Couples therapy provides a space to explore the difficulties affecting your relationship and to understand better the patterns that may be keeping you stuck.
As an impartial, non-judgmental therapist, I see your relationship as my client, and I help each partner feel heard and understood, creating the conditions for more open communication and deeper understanding. Together, we can explore new ways of relating and consider what changes may be needed to move forward.
Why should you consider therapy?
Relationships are shaped by many different pressures, including the demands of everyday life, financial concerns, changing family circumstances, illness, loss, or changes in intimacy and desire.
Some difficulties may appear minor on the surface but reflect deeper underlying issues. Others may feel overwhelming yet become more manageable once they are understood. Therapy offers an opportunity to explore what is happening between you, make sense of the challenges you are facing, and consider how you would like your relationship to develop.
For some couples, this involves rebuilding connection and strengthening the relationship. For others, it may mean making thoughtful decisions about the future.
How will we proceed?
Relationships are shaped by many different pressures, including the demands of everyday life, financial concerns, changing family circumstances, illness, loss, or changes in intimacy and desire.
Some difficulties may appear minor on the surface but reflect deeper underlying issues. Others may feel overwhelming yet become more manageable once they are understood. Therapy offers an opportunity to explore what is happening between you, make sense of the challenges you are facing, and consider how you would like your relationship to develop.
For some couples, this involves rebuilding connection and strengthening the relationship. For others, it may mean making thoughtful decisions about the future.
It is not uncommon for partners to have different feelings about starting therapy. While the process is often most effective when both partners are willing to engage, meaningful work can still take place when one partner is initially uncertain or reluctant.
In some situations, individual sessions may also be helpful as a starting point. For example, when one partner feels uncertain about therapy or reluctant to attend, it can be useful to meet individually for a small number of sessions first. This allows us to establish a therapeutic relationship, explore any concerns about the process, and consider together whether joint sessions would be beneficial.
Individual
Alongside my work with couples, I offer individual therapy to adults experiencing relationship, intimacy, and sexual difficulties.
People seek individual therapy for many different reasons. Some wish to better understand their emotional life and the challenges they are facing within a current relationship.
Others come to reflect on recurring difficulties in dating and relationships, experiences of betrayal or loss, difficulties with trust, intimacy, or communication, or patterns that leave them feeling stuck, disconnected, or dissatisfied.
I also work with individuals experiencing sexual concerns, including difficulties with desire, sexual confidence, intimacy, sexual functioning, or the impact that relationship difficulties may have on their sexual lives.
Individual therapy provides a confidential and reflective space in which to explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Together, we can consider how past and present relationships, attachment experiences, and unconscious patterns may be influencing your current difficulties, helping you develop greater self-understanding and create meaningful change.
My approach is psychodynamic and integrative, recognising that relationship and sexual difficulties are often shaped by both present circumstances and earlier experiences.
Sessions are offered online to adults across the UK and internationally.
Psychosexual
Sexual difficulties are common and can affect people at any stage of life, whether they are single, dating, or in a long-term relationship. These concerns can have a significant impact on confidence, intimacy, relationships, and overall wellbeing, often leaving people feeling isolated, frustrated, or misunderstood.
Psychosexual therapy provides a confidential and non-judgmental space in which to explore sexual concerns and the emotional, relational, and psychological factors that may be contributing to them. Together, we will seek to understand not only the difficulties themselves, but also the wider context in which they occur.
Therapy may be undertaken individually or with a partner, depending on your circumstances and goals. My approach is integrative and informed by psychodynamic, relational and psychosexual perspectives. Alongside developing a deeper understanding of the issues you are facing, we may also consider practical strategies and exercises where appropriate.
Sexual difficulties rarely occur in isolation. They are often influenced by a combination of physical, emotional, relational and social factors. Psychosexual therapy takes these different dimensions into account, helping you to better understand your experiences, improve communication and intimacy, and develop a more satisfying relationship with your sexuality.
People seek psychosexual therapy for many different reasons, including:
Loss of sexual desire or differences in desire between partners
Difficulties with intimacy, sexual confidence or sexual satisfaction
Erectile difficulties
Rapid or delayed ejaculation
Difficulties reaching orgasm
Painful sex, vaginismus or dyspareunia
Compulsive pornography use or compulsive sexual behaviours
Sexual difficulties following cancer treatment or other health conditions
Difficulties arising from relationship problems, conflict or infidelity
The impact of sexual trauma or adverse sexual experiences
I also have a particular interest in the impact of life transitions on sexuality, including menopause, ageing, changes in health, and the evolving nature of intimacy in long-term relationships.