Relationship Therapy in London

Relationship difficulties are among the most common reasons people come to therapy — whether that means couples work, individual therapy focused on a relationship pattern, or a broader exploration of how someone relates to others in ways that keep producing the same results. The presenting problem varies: communication has broken down, intimacy has receded, a particular conflict keeps recurring, the relationship has changed in ways that feel irrecoverable, or a person is stuck in a pattern across multiple relationships that they cannot see a way out of.

What they tend to share is a structure that cannot be changed simply by trying harder or communicating more clearly. Most persistent relationship difficulties are rooted in early relational templates — the patterns of attachment formed in early relationships that subsequently shape how someone approaches intimacy, conflict, dependency, and vulnerability in adult life. Working with those templates, rather than the surface behaviour, is what produces lasting change.

Couples therapy

Couples therapy at the practice works with both partners, attending to the dynamic between them rather than arbitrating between competing perspectives. The aim is not to assign responsibility but to understand the system both people are caught in — the ways each person’s patterns interact with the other’s, the underlying needs that the conflict is expressing, and what would need to shift for the relationship to become genuinely different rather than temporarily calmer.

Individual work on relationship patterns

Individual therapy focused on relationship patterns is valuable for people who are not currently in a relationship, whose partner is unwilling to attend, or for whom the relational difficulty is most usefully explored individually — particularly where it connects to early attachment history or to a broader pattern of how the person relates across multiple contexts. This work is deeply relevant to Jungian analysis, where the patterns one forms and repeats in relationships are primary material for understanding the unconscious.

Sessions in London

Relationship therapy — both couples and individual — is available at the Harley Street and Central London offices and online. Initial consultations for couples are attended by both partners.

Codependency — a pattern in which a person organises their emotional life around another — is one of the relational patterns frequently worked with here.