Couples Therapy and Individual Therapy provide you with a regular time to think and reflect - and talk - about the feelings you have. 

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Couples therapy is for couples who keep ending up in the same place

Something shaped between you that neither of you can see from inside.

Psychodynamic therapy works with the deeper layer, not just the surface.

Most of the couples I work with arrive after months, sometimes years, of having the same difficult conversations. They may know the pattern well: one pushes for an answer, the other pulls away; one feels criticised, the other feels ignored; both leave the conversation feeling misunderstood.

I work psychodynamically, which means I am interested in what is happening underneath the argument as well as in the argument itself. We pay attention to the detail of what happens between you in the room: who speaks first, when someone goes quiet, what feels impossible to say directly, and how quickly an ordinary disagreement becomes something much larger.

The point is not to decide who is right, or to teach you a better way to argue. The work is to understand why the same positions keep getting taken up. Often a couple's present difficulty carries older expectations about closeness, dependence, anger, disappointment, or being left out. When those expectations are not understood, they tend to get acted out between partners.

I trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Arbours Association in London and I am an accredited member of the UKCP (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College). I am currently completing advanced specialist training in couples psychotherapy at Tavistock Relationships, accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). All of my couples work is conducted under close clinical supervision by senior practitioners at Tavistock Relationships.

I speak English, Spanish and Swiss German. My couples work is in English, but those languages can help when someone is trying to find an English word for something that sits more naturally elsewhere. For some people, language is not a detail at the edge of therapy: it affects what feels speakable, what becomes blunt, and what gets lost in translation, particularly where partners come from different countries or family cultures.

If you would like to talk about whether this kind of work might suit you, you can get in touch by email

 

For Individual  Psychotherapy, , how you feel from day-to-day, your mental state, the pattern of your behaviour, your actions and the decisions you take are all connected to your past experiences going back to your childhood. They determine the person you are today.  My aim is to help you make connections between the past and the present. This can show you how some of the things that you feel, do and say are not driven by your conscious thoughts and feelings, rather by unconscious feelings. If you are able to gain a better understanding of these connections, you'll gain more control over them.

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