Relationship TherapyI am a Gestalt Psychotherapist and hold an MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy. I have undertaken specialist training in Somatic relationship therapy and Advanced Gestalt couples and relationship therapy with the Gestalt Integrative Institute. I am also a board member of the Institute and am actively involved in training relationship therapists in this approach.
I work with a wide range of relationship forms and relational contexts, including romantic and sexual partnerships across the GSRD spectrum, family relationships, friendships, and professional and work-based relationships . My work is relational and experiential, with close attention to how each partner’s personal history, attachment patterns, and lived experience shape the relationship between them. I am particularly interested in how fixed relational patterns develop over time — often as creative adaptations — and how these patterns can become limiting or painful when they fall outside awareness. In therapy, I support people to slow things down and become more aware of what is happening between them. This includes noticing habitual ways of communicating, responding under stress, managing difference, and navigating power, closeness, and vulnerability. My role is not to take sides or assign blame, but to support shared awareness and responsibility for the relational field being co-created. I work to support clearer communication and deeper listening, fostering the capacity to hear and take in one another’s perspective — particularly where experiences differ or feel difficult to hold. Through this process, people often come to better understand the dynamics shaping their relationship and recognise how these dynamics play out in everyday communication, emotional responses, and behaviour. By working with awareness rather than judgement, therapy can open up the possibility of healthier, more flexible ways of relating — supporting choice, contact, and meaningful change within the relationship. |
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