Relationship Support For Couples

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​I am a qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor working with both individuals and couples. For individuals, I draw on person-centred and integrative approaches to support challenges such as stress, anxiety, trauma, loss, grief, divorce, confidence and self-esteem, as well as recurring patterns in relationships or life transitions.

 

With couples, I use Imago Relationship Therapy to help partners move from conflict and disconnection into deeper empathy, trust and intimacy. My approach is collaborative, compassionate and intentional — centred on creating a safe space where meaningful change can happen. If you feel ready to take the next step towards building a healthier relationship with yourself or your partner, I’d be glad to support you.

 

How I Work with Couples In Relationship Therapy

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I am a qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, working with both individuals and couples. At the heart of my practice is the belief that our wellbeing is deeply connected to the quality of the relationships we hold — both with ourselves and with others. I offer a safe, supportive, and non-judgemental space where clients can explore challenges, deepen self-understanding, and create healthier ways of relating.

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When working with individuals, I draw on both person-centred and integrative approaches, tailoring the work to each client’s unique needs. This might mean focusing on self-esteem, anxiety, life transitions, or relationship patterns that feel difficult to shift. I am also equipped to work with stress, anxiety, trauma, loss, grief, divorce, confidence and self-esteem issues. My aim is to help clients connect more compassionately with themselves, uncover what they truly need, and find practical, sustainable ways forward.

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With couples, I am a sex-positive, neurodivergent affirming, LGBTQ+ friendly Psychotherapist. In my relationship therapy work I support couples using Imago Relationship Therapy, a powerful model that helps partners move from conflict and disconnection into greater empathy, understanding, and intimacy. Through guided dialogue, couples learn how to really hear and be heard by one another, rebuild trust, and restore a sense of safety and connection in their relationship. Whether couples are looking to repair, strengthen, or simply better understand their dynamic, I support them in finding a more conscious and fulfilling way to relate.

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My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and intentional — always centred on creating a secure space where change feels possible and meaningful. If you feel ready to take the next step towards building a healthier relationship with yourself or with your partner, I invite you to get in touch — I’d be glad to support you.

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Who do I work with? 

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I work in a gently assertive and positive way which means most couples feel held in the space and supported, no matter their relationship dynamic or how they identify. 

 

I work in a completely non-judgemental way and your relationship becomes my priority. I do not work with each individual as a paradigm, I work with the relational paradigm which means I don’t see the individuals in the relationship outside of the couples sessions for individual sessions. 

 

I work with couples from all different backgrounds, identities, sexuality and cultures. I am very LGBTQ+ friendly. I only speak English but can assure you that you will be welcomed warmly no matter how you and your partner identify or your backgrounds. I am an inclusive relationship coach and I also work with couples who have multi-dimensional relationship setups but do only work with the ‘couple’. My work is sex-positive and I have a background in education around intimacy of both the emotional and sexual nature in romantic relationships. 

 

My aim is that you feel comfortable enough to explore any topic that is holding you and your partner back from creating the deepest connection possible within your romantic relationship. 

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What is Imago?

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Both parties in the couple have to be willing to do the work and want to find reconnection in this relationship. It was created by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly-Hunt in the 80's and made famous by Oprah Winfrey who used it in her relationship to reconnect with her partner. 

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How do Imago Couples Sessions Work?

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The core focus is to enable relationship reconnection is to create safety for each other. When we feel safe we become available to actively listen and really hear each other, this helps to figure out what is really going on with each other and within your relationship.

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When there isn’t any safety present there won’t be a way for you both to be available to listen to one another to find the understanding that you both want and need to be able to become unstuck from where you are at now.

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In Imago Relationship practitioners who provide this kind of couples therapeutic work are able to facilitate sessions giving you both the tools to safely be available, speak, hear and understand each other. It is not your usual type of judge and jury counselling setting, it’s a relentlessly positive environment that is created that has seen many couples create the shifts they so need to come back to one another.

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When we humans feel safe we don’t operate from a place that is defensive in coping mechanisms. Our language becomes more open and we’re able to actively hear. When we feel safe we feel the opposite from being attacked, guarded and closed and this is how many couples feel when they unfortunately find themselves in a place of disconnection and discontent in their relationships.

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Imago will give you both the space and time to talk about your stuff and feel heard by each other and to do this it provides the tools for you both to be less guarded with one another.

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Right now, if you’re seeking couples relationship support the chances are pretty high that you’re feeling hurt, stuck, unhappy and disconnected in your relationship and with Imago we want to create the calmest, safest environment possible for you both to really be with one another.

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For some couples it takes just a few sessions, for others it takes longer but what you both will see is that by working with me we go through a process of you both learning how to appreciate one another, understand one another and step into each others shoes. This shift will create space for love and connection to re-enter.

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My values are to help couples reimagine, reignite and reconnect in their relationship. My work is really important to me, its a vocation and not just a profession and so I do hope you feel that you will be in the safest hands possible as we begin the journey for you both.

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You might be wondering more about the work I do and how Couples Relationship support with me in Rutland, London or online will be facilitated.

 

The Key Features of Imago 

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Imago is all about bringing positivity and safety back to your relationship and from there you are able to reconnect and form connection. The way I see it, is that two individuals in the room that are in a couple work on reforming a friendship to build the romantic connection from the ground back up.

 

The work of Imago is to ensure you are the safest person and partner possible in the room during your couples therapy sessions and this work is built from positivity and appreciations where you will both learn how to give and receive love between one another.

 

In each session couples ground into the work with each other and once we flow through the appreciations the couple will be given the structure to enter into the dialogue process. This process is specific and carefully structured in a way that you and your partner are going to be able to dialogue about the things that are holding you both back from connection. When in the dialogue process couples are able to share their experience of what is going on for them in an uninterrupted manner so each partner in the couple has a chance to talk and share their thoughts and feelings.

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What is my role in the Couples Therapy Process?

 

I am trained to hold couples in a safe dialogue through guidance, coaching and facilitation of connection. I will be spending very little time talking but will be offering guidance, helping you both manage what is going on in the room and ensuring safety for you both on an emotional level is facilitated. As you go through your sessions I will from time to time, if and where relevant and if you both find it useful, share insights and education about the theory if interpersonal connection. This sharing of relationship knowledge might help you from time to time look at the romantic connection more abstractly and enable you to see what is going on for one another. I aim to only share to educate and help you both out of a place of stuckness.

 

What is your role in the Couples Work Process?

 

Your role, if you wish to work through what is coming up for you both in your relationship is to commit to the process. After an initial session where you will assess if how I work if for you, I will also let you know if I am able to work with you both.

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If you’re looking to do the work with each other and reconnect and you’re willing to stick with and trust the process then it’s likely I will be the person for you to work with as you opt in for couples work sessions with me. I only work with couples who express they are looking to co-create a deeply fulfilling relationship and want to make changes for the long-term within their relationship and how they relate to one another. However, if you’re looking for a quick fix or just as space to let your partner hear your thoughts without really doing the work responsibly then I am not going to be the person for you to work with.

 

How Do I Work With Couples?

 

My initial session with you and your partner will be an assessment session of whether we want to work with each other. The initial session is 60 minutes and ​if we decide to go ahead then I will work with you in 90 minute sessions. Together with my couples we decide the best cadence of sesisons for their circumstances, there is no one size fits all approach. Each 90 min session will be charged ahead of time at £130. 

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Each session is payable in advance as you are securing the time. I ask you to give me 72 hours notice if you need to cancel. If it is less than 72 hours you will be charged my full fee with no exceptions. I will offer you a fixed appointment time which will be the same time and day every two weeks.

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I am able to offer couples a same day appointment if in crisis, for 90 minutes, in an emergency situation. The charge for this is £250 and will need you both to be in contact to request any last-minute availability.

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Couples can be based anywhere in the world. I offer worldwide online relationship therapy to support couples in relationship reconnection, my fees are the same as above. As mentioned, you are paying for the time slot.

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It doesn’t matter how you identify to me as what matters most is that you both wish to be in a deeply committed and connected relationship and want to work through all the things that may be holding you both back from making that connection happen. You can be the same sex, no identifying or different sexes in a heterosexual relationship.

 

About my personal approach

 

I am passionate about the work I do and really want to see couples not only reconnect but put the joy and fun back into their relationship. I am warm, friendly and also direct. I integrate psycho-education so you can learn about how you relate and why with each other as you can so you can make long-lasting improvements to how you show up for one another. I care about my clients and the work I do. I don’t work with everyone, only couples who I can see are really ready to do the work with each other. From time to time I operate a waiting list and if I do have spaces free to work with you, I will invite you to do so and we can go from there. I see this work as important and its a collaborative effort between myself and the couples putting in the work.

 

Want to enquire about working together?

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If you are interested in booking a couples work session with me please book a session below. 

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