Welcome to Couple Psychotherapy London
We are a group of committed and highly experienced psychotherapists with an in-depth training in working with couples. As well as aiming to fully hear what each of you is experiencing, we will help you to make sense of the dynamic between you so that you feel empowered to make the changes you need in your relationship.
About Us
We are all senior psychotherapists with many years’ experience and we contribute to our profession in a number of ways including supervising, teaching and publishing clinical papers. We have a broad range of experience working in charitable and NHS settings as well as in private practice.
We also all have extensive trainings as individual psychotherapists so that we can think with you about whether couple or individual therapy is the best way forward. We may suggest that one or both of you have individual therapy alongside or before starting couple therapy.
Online Couple Therapy
We are all very experienced in working with couples and individuals online. This may be the first choice for some couples, either because of busy schedules and difficulty getting to sessions in person, or because this may feel like a more manageable way for some couples to work on their relationship.
How can couple psychodynamic psychotherapy help?
In couple psychodynamic psychotherapy the focus is on the relationship that you have co-created. While couples experiencing difficulties may feel that one or the other is to blame, our approach is non-judgmental. We aim to help you understand how you each contribute to the couple dynamic, sometimes in ways you may not have been aware of.
Enabling each of you to feel heard by the other is another highly significant aspect of couple therapy. Couples who are in difficulty may have stopped listening to one another fully. Through giving space to what each of you is thinking and feeling, couple therapy can help to re-awaken your curiosity about one another so that you can better navigate your differences.
As psychodynamic psychotherapists we take your individual histories and the history of your relationship into account when thinking about your current issues. However we also think about your particular needs as a couple at any point in the therapy. For some couples a focus on the here and now of their relationship may be the most helpful.
View our article "Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – What to Expect" to learn more.
Concerns we can help with:
People come to us for help a wide range of issues. Here are a few of the more common difficulties that can be supported through psychotherapy:
Conflict and arguments
Starting a family
Children leaving home
Negotiating commitment or change
Illness of one partner
Sexual issues
Infidelity
Anxiety
A general sense of unhappiness in the relationship
Differing parenting styles causing conflict
Separation and divorce
Life transitions such as ageing and retirement
About the process
We offer once-weekly sessions either in person or online. The work is normally open ended but can also be time limited where appropriate. Working over a longer period enables us to work at a deeper level especially where difficulties feel more entrenched.
We will offer you an initial one or two consultations to think together about your needs before deciding to enter into therapy proper. Once we agree to continue with therapy we will meet for 50 minutes or an hour at the same time each week.
Sessions are held in confidence. We all belong to professional bodies with high standards of ethical conduct and abide by their code of ethics.
We are based mainly in Central London, but also in Kent and Surrey and we will discuss whether online or in person will work best for you.
The fee will be discussed in the first session.
Locations
We work from locations in Central and North London, as well as in the London regions (Kent and Surrey). All of our therapists also work online.
Mary Cronin: Dalston, Hackney (E8) and Online.
Sophie Corke: Clerkenwell (EC1R) ; Godalming, Surrey (GU7) and Online.
Ulrika Guttormsson: Kent (ME1) and Online.
Wendy Maier: Hampstead (NW3) and Online.
Please see our individual profiles for further details about where we work in person.
Fees
We will discuss our fees with you on initial contact. We offer a similar fee structure and most of us hold some spaces for students or those on lower incomes.
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