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Couples Counselling in London

Couple Counselling in London and Online

Couples Therapy and Relationship Counselling are for everyone: living together or apart, married, single, gay or straight. Leone Centre experienced Couples Counsellors, offer therapy in London and Online, helping you to improve your relationships.

How do you relate to each other? How do you relate to yourself?

Are you stuck in the same arguments, experiencing communication issues, trying to recover from infidelity in your relationship? Is there a lack of sexual desire, do you feel jealous, frustrated or disillusioned?

Are you unsure as to whether you and your partner should stay together to separate? Are you trying to co-parent after separation?

If you are considering getting in touch or booking an initial appointment for Couple Counselling either in London or online, perhaps reading the following will help you in making a choice.

Leone Centre couples counsellors are specifically trained in couples therapy and provide a safe and collaborative face to face or online space where you can together share your thoughts, feelings and experiences of each other moving towards establishing a common ground.

CLIENT REVIEWS

“… thanks ! We are now able to communicate whilst remaining calm and really listen to each other, something we haven’t been able to do for a long time…”

“… we learnt that we had different languages to express love and care for each other which were often lost in translation…”

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Relationship is Everything – Couples Therapy is a Reflective Space

It is easy to forget our right to happiness and fulfilment in our relationships and lives when things go wrong.

When couples start a relationship together, they often develop a belief that they must handle all they encounter alone.

You might have tried to make your relationship work or even started couples therapy in London before. Our couples counselling can help those who might not want to stay in an unfulfilled marriage but separating from the family unit does not feel right either. Sometimes a sudden crisis emerges and requires immediate attention.

“People change and forget to tell each other.” – Lillian Hellman

What’s Our Approach To Couple Counselling?

Our couple therapy approach is relational and collaborative, thoughtful and engaging. Our couple counselling experienced therapists uniquely design each session to be interactive, reflective and to ensure that you both feel involved and listen to.

Some of the areas we work on in couples counselling:

Communication and conflict resolution
Jealousy
Rekindling sexual desire
Divorce and separation

Our couple counselling offers a great opportunity for people in any close relationship to make sense of and to overcome the problems and challenges that inevitably occur during their lifetime together.

At Leone Centre, we work confidentially, supporting couples to make sense of the challenges that inevitably occur during the lifetime of a long-term relationship.

Will A Mutual Commitment To Couples Therapy Help?

A mutual commitment to the work will accelerate your relationship to start moving towards a stronger and more meaningful place. When both partners are active and enthusiastic about strengthening your bond with couples counselling your relationships move towards a much better and more fulfilling place.

“Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.” – Harville Hendrix

Our associates, and specialist couple counsellors in London, Fulham or online will work with couples who are: married or not, cohabiting or not, LGBTQ, heterosexual, in a partnership, in a process of separating or separated, co-parenting.

Starting Marriage And Couple Counselling

We aim to offer an initial couple counselling session within one business day of your initial contact at one of our London locations in Fulham, Battersea, Victoria or Chelsea.

It is not unusual for one partner in a relationship to be more reluctant to engage in couples counselling. Our counsellors use the first session to reassure couples and to provide them with an overview of the positive aspects of communicating, listening and understanding.

What Can Couples Counselling Help With?

No-one takes a decision to divorce or separate lightly. Such a decision usually involves a high degree of pain, confusion, anger and anxiety.

In our culture, we tend to view divorce and separation as a failure. Longevity is seen as the ultimate indicator of marital achievement, plenty of people who stayed in relationships that did not work have been miserable.

Emotional and financial resources can be easily dissipated in the psychological and legal costs of a harsh divorce and settlement process.

Co-parenting needs to be focused on the children rather than entangled in difficult parental dynamics or resentment.

When a relationship has run its course, in couples counselling Victoria our therapists aim to— when we can —help it end with dignity and integrity. There is no paradox in asking a couple about the success of their breakup.

LGBTQ+ Couples Counselling

All of our couples counsellors are LGBTQ+ advocates and well experienced working with diversity and all different sexuality, preferences and genders. Read more on our LGBTI+ services here.

Couple Counselling FAQs:

Our couple counsellors so often get asked:

Is couple counselling enough to save a marriage that has been emotionally and sexually absent for years?

Does online couples therapy work?

Is it possible for the love to come back?

Is it realistic to think that a couple can fully recover from an affair?

Can you stop the rows and the power struggles?

Can we heal from our bereavement together?

Does couple counselling help to be true to yourself and “say it as it is” in a loving relationship?

What is a good relationship?

Will couple counselling help me communicate with my partner and be understood?

Can we become parents without forgetting to be a couple?

Locations

Leone Centre can offer a Couples Counselling sessions online and in London in and near the following locations or online:

Working Online

Thanks to technology (we use the Zoom video conferencing platform), couples can utilise the benefits of online working at Leone Centre. Whether it is full time remote counselling work or flexible working, our couples therapists are experienced working with couples from all over the world.

If you’d like to find out more details about our Couple Counselling practice you can organise an initial appointment by calling one of our centres on 0333 987 5234 or by completing our online booking form on our website today.

All our counsellors, marriage and couples therapists in London and online are registered members of BACP and/or UKCP .

Talk to Our Couple Therapists Today

Stelios Christodoulou

Individual & Couple Therapist

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With 25 years experience as a therapist, Stelios is a registered member of the BACP, an experienced individual and couples counsellor and counselling service coordinator.

He is a supervisor and therapy groups facilitator.

Originally trained in Gestalt Therapy he has gone on to develop an integrative way of working with couples and individuals.

His work with couples is informed by an attachment-based approach to relationship counselling. He has developed extensive knowledge and experience in supporting couples who seek help with difficulties in their relationships.

He has worked in various settings in the voluntary sector and the NHS and has considerable knowledge of how addictions and mental health issues impact on couple relationships.

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Marzena Ryglewska

Family and Systemic Psychotherapist & Couples Therapist

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With many years working in the NHS, Marzena is a very experienced UKCP registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and a member of Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice and College for Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy.

She has over 20 years of experience working in a variety of roles across different health and social care sectors seeking best ways to support those facing adversities, challenges and significant life’s crises. Her professional path started by helping families to identify root causes of their problems, supporting them to overcome difficulties encountered.

Marzena developed her systemic practice working with couples and families facing relational difficulties, struggling with problems such as disconnection, unresolved and reoccurring conflicts, adversities, trauma, mental and physical ill-health and losses.

Marzena holds the belief that we are relational beings and the quality of our close relationships will determine our lives’ satisfaction.

She believes that a sense of connection, feeling loved and understood all play a vital role in building and sustaining good relationships; however, when families face significant problems such as trauma, health issues, injustice, loss or pressures of everyday life, previously known ways of connecting and communicating with each other often call for re-evaluation.

Marzena helps couples and families work through the challenges they face, whether those are placed within the family or in the wider context such as school, work or stresses of everyday life. Her work aims at strengthening connections, deepening understanding of one another and finding new ways of moving forward.

In her therapeutic work she integrates different family therapy approaches, drawing on other psychotherapeutic modalities if helpful.

She is currently working with children and young people within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, providing specialist clinical assessment and treatment for families of children and young people with Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, self-harming and trauma, amongst others.

Marzena also provides guidance to wider networks, such as schools, GPs or Social Services and she also trained in delivering and supervising Brief Psychosocial Intervention (BPI) for adolescents with low mood.

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Dawn Brearley

Individual & Couple/Relationship Online Counsellor

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Dawn has extensive experience in working with individual and couple clients.

Having a sound understanding of key theoretical models she has practiced and worked with Marriage Care, Relate, Childline, Bereavement and Carers services.

As a registered member of the BACP, Dawn favours a person-centred and humanistic approach and likes to establish an atmosphere of warmth and empathy in sessions. This allows individual clients to open up in a safe space and work at their own pace. Dawn believes in building up trust and in doing so empowering clients to process difficult feelings and find a positive way forward.

Dawn trained with Relate as a relationship/couples counsellor and has worked with several national organisations in this specialist area. She places an importance on providing a platform for both partners to talk and listen to each other in sessions while remaining neutral and non-judgemental.

Dawn has an MA in Victorian Literature and worked in assurance and compliance before being drawn to re-train as a counsellor. Her counselling interests focus on bereavement, loss and relationship issues.

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Olena Baeva

Individual and Couples / Marriage Counsellor

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Olena Baeva (MA, MBACP) is a counselling psychologist specialising in individual and couples therapy.

As a practitioner, she is warm, compassionate and diversity affirming, allowing for all the qualities and unexplored aspects of her clients to emerge and be validated.

Olena has trained with Relate in couple and relationship counselling.

She developed an early interest in physics and maths, studied psychology and business administration as an undergraduate. Later, she studied creativity and innovation in children through to adulthood for her Master’s degree, continuing her academic focus into relationship counselling and autism.

Most of her work is with people dealing with trauma, life changes and relationship issues.

Olena has a strong interest in helping those who are themselves autistic or a partner of an autistic/neurodivergent person.

She has extensive academic training in various therapeutic modalities and tailors her approach to each individual. Through her experience with a vast array of individuals she has developed her ethos with one important lesson among many; as the psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan said, “We are all more human than otherwise.”

Olena can also offer counselling in Russian.

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William Conant

Individual & Couple Therapist

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With over 12 years experience as a therapist, couple counsellor William Conant works with individual clients and couples who are struggling with communication and are experiencing relational and/or sexual issues including male impotence and erectile dysfunction.

William is a highly valued and knowledgeable member of the Leone Centre Associates Team and has a special interest in working with individuals and couples on intimacy and communication Issues, individual and couple psychosexual difficulties, divorce and separation, affairs and betrayals and also couple whose relationship has been negatively impacted by illness.

William works with people experiencing challenges with anxiety, depression, addiction, stress, low self-esteem, bereavement, trauma, sexual and emotional abuse, bullying.

He is a member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and COSRT (College of Sexual & Relationship Therapists).

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Lina Kaas

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

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With a Masters degree in Counselling specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and Counselling, Lina has achieved further academic certification in the Gottman Couples Method, Schema Therapy, Transactional Analysis (TA) and Brainspotting.

Lina has worked with individuals and couples presenting with a myriad of concerns such as anxiety, anger and stress management, depression, loss and bereavement, panic attacks and trauma. She uses an integrative approach to her relational work with clients who are looking for growth in mindset. Lina can also help with self-esteem development, life-adjustments/transitions, parenting, relationship and divorce issues.

Lina believes there is ‘no one size fit for all’ approach in psychotherapy and so in taking an integrative approach, she combines the best of counselling theories in her work. She offers a safe and confidential space to explore any issue that may be troubling you and will work collaboratively and respectfully to increase awareness and strengthen your resources. She believes therapy should empower clients to create the life they wish for. She tailors each couple and individual client treatment according to their needs, helping them meet their resources and motivate them to go through changes and overcome their problems.

Having worked in private practice in the UK and Singapore, Lina embraces diversity and is more discerning of cultural nuances that might impact different individuals. She sees herself as an active guide, who will help and support you through any issue or emotional distress you may face, focusing on the past, present and future as she believes they all play a part in who we are.

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Cristina Vrech

Founder and Director - Individual & Couple Therapist, Corporate Services

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As the co-founder of the Leone Centre, Cristina Vrech directs the individual therapy, couples’ therapy and Energy Work services.

Her extensive experience in various counselling and therapy specialities offers valuable knowledge to her clients and the Leone Centre.

Working across all the landscapes of relationships, communication, stress, infidelity, parenting, confidence, loneliness, addiction, separation and divorce, IVF and anxiety, she takes a direct and supportive approach to counselling for every client.

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Alison Wragg

Founder - Director - Organisational Consultant, Individual/Couple Therapist & Certified MBTI Practitioner

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Alison Wragg is the Lead Consultant for our Corporate and Consultancy services. Alison holds specialist knowledge in cultivating relational intelligence with individuals and couples and in challenging workplace dynamics, leadership and executive coaching and organisational consultancy. An experienced integrative therapist, couple and marriage counsellor, organisational development consultant, trainer, visiting lecturer and facilitator, Alison has extensive experience in working in depth with individuals, couples and teams who are experiencing relational difficulties and challenging home and /or workplace dynamics.

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Rachel Edinborough

Individual and Couples Counsellor

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Individual and Couples Counsellor, author, supervisor and service manager, Rachel has over 10 years’ experience as a therapist.

Originally trained in the Person-Centred approach, Rachel has gone on to use an integrative approach to counselling with individuals, couples, and families.

Rachel is trained in various modalities to offer a blended approach to therapeutically support a wide range of issues both individual and relational; these include Solution-Focused and Systemic Practice.

She has extensive experience counselling in private practice and within a charitable organisation in a leadership and supervisory role and counselling youth, adults, families, and couples. With experience across anxiety, depression, conflict, poor communication, affairs, family breakdown, financial challenges, alcohol/drug addiction, lack of intimacy, parenting differences, stress, bereavement/loss, career change, abuse, and many others.

Helping individuals to develop autonomy and self-awareness.

Rachel values creating a warm and safe space for a couple to feel heard and share, whilst also maintaining neutrality and respecting differences. She helps couples to improve their communication with each other and their wider systems through exploring new meaning and understanding.

Rachel offers long-term and short-term online counselling and is a registered member of the BACP.