Relationships, Grief & Loss

Relationships are central to our wellbeing. They shape how we experience ourselves, others, and the world around us. You may be seeking therapy because something feels painful or difficult to shift; a current relationship, a recent ending or loss, or a pattern that keeps repeating.

Often, people notice themselves returning to familiar relationship patterns, even when those patterns feel painful, confusing, or no longer helpful. Therapy can support understanding how earlier emotional and relational experiences may continue to shape expectations of others, emotional responses, ways of coping, and patterns in present relationships.

Therapy may support people experiencing:

  • recurring relationship difficulties

  • grief and loss

  • relationship breakdown or life transitions

  • difficulties with intimacy or closeness

  • avoidance or difficulty expressing needs and boundaries

  • fear of rejection, criticism, or abandonment

  • understanding how earlier experiences shape present relationships

Therapy Approach

My approach is relational psychodynamic and attachment-informed. This means understanding current ways of coping and relating as understandable responses to earlier experiences and your unique context, while creating space to reflect on these together. Grief may need time to be understood and felt in its many forms. While some people come to therapy because relationships are the main concern, relationships are also often an important part of the work when difficulties present as anxiety, depression, self-worth, grief, perinatal concerns, eating concerns, trauma, or other difficulties.

The therapeutic relationship is also essential to good therapy. I aim to offer a therapy relationship that feels thoughtful, safe, and attuned, where your experiences can be understood with care and compassion. It can also become a place where relational patterns are noticed, understood, and gradually worked through as they emerge. The aim is to support greater self-understanding, reflection, and choice in how you relate to yourself and others.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Relationship patterns are the familiar ways we come to manage relationships, including needs for closeness, intimacy, approval, autonomy, and the ways in which we protect ourselves or repeat old hopes and fears with new people. They are often not chosen consciously, but can shape relationships in powerful ways.

  • This kind of insight alone is not always enough to create change. Therapy also involves emotional experience, reflection, and developing the capacity to recognise, tolerate, and respond differently to patterns as they emerge over time.

  • Therapy is interested in both past and present. Current relationships often reveal emotional patterns that developed earlier and continue to shape how you respond now. Understanding these patterns can create more freedom and choice in the present.

  • Therapy can provide space to process grief, confusion, emotional pain, uncertainty, or questions about yourself and your relationships following a breakup or significant relationship change.

  • No. I provide individual therapy, though relationship experiences and relational patterns are often an important focus within individual work.