My work with couples is grounded in helping you understand one another, develop strong, long lasting, healthy communication and repair after conflict. Whether communication has broken down, trust has been broken or you're feeling disconnected or stuck in patterns of conflict, I facilitate a calm space for couples to explore their challenges, whilst both being heard. Opening up honest conversations can be very challenging and uncomfortable, I will guide you and walk alongside you to help unlock what you want from the relationship, untangle any confusion and explore the steps you might take to strengthening your relationship.

In our sessions I will encourage you to get curious about yourself, your partner and the system you have created together; what works well and what is not serving the relationship. With the relationship at the heart of the work I invite you to cross the bridge into one another's worlds, so you both feel heard and seen, this is a powerful relational tool, which I will help you access and take with you outside of sessions. We may explore your individual histories by way of making sense of the dynamic or patterns in your relationship. Understanding what has shaped you gives insight into the role you play in your relationship and certain behaviours you may carry from early experiences. this is helpful to breaking cycles and understanding the way you and your partner operate in the relationship.

Language plays a huge role in my practice as does the way we listen to one another. The work we do together aims to develop a more conscious awareness of how you communicate in the relationship, how you can have your needs met and how you can meet the needs of your partner, making sense together of what a fulfilling relationship looks like to you and how you can achieve this. I am trained in Imago technique and will often draw from this modality to encourage a different style of communication, which can be transformative with practice.

Couples counselling can be helpful if you're at a cross roads and there is uncertainty about the future of the relationship. Counselling can help navigate these challenging conversations and help gain clarity. Endings can be very painful but If you have decided to separate, I offer separation counselling to help you reach an amicable, satisfying ending. One that feels kind, respectful and one which honours an important chapter that has reached an end. Ending conversations can be very empowering as well as healing in the longer term; this can be particularly important if you have a family together and will be entering a new co-parenting relationship.