My approach is inclusive and I offer a welcoming and empathetic setting for sessions, working respectfully and sensitively with diverse experiences. I have worked with couples from a range of sexual orientations, ages, ethnic backgrounds, spiritual and religious beliefs and with different disabilities. I’ve worked with couples where there is a range of neurodiversity, including where one or both people have a diagnosis or self-diagnosis of ADHD. Working with couples from different cultures and living in different countries is something I also have experience of and welcome.
My own experience of having lived abroad in a very different culture and now living in a diverse and multi-cultural area of Bristol is enriching and informs me.
You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from couples therapy. I also work with couples who are in a very good place in their relationship, deeply in love, and want to improve on their communication or work through a particular issue to enable them to be in an even better place. Investing in your relationship with some support early on can help create stronger foundations or more satisfying intimacy. This can help issues get resolved as they arise so things don’t build up and unhelpful patterns set in.
If you are currently living in different locations or need to be in separate places due to work commitments, online sessions make couples therapy possible. A real benefit of online sessions is that you can be in separate locations and as long as you have privacy and a good enough wi-fi connection, sessions on zoom work well. I can help you get the most out of online therapy.
I have worked with couples living in different countries and this works well if our time zones allow. Zoom offers a professional secure platform for working with couples internationally and my professional insurance covers international sessions (except in the USA)