# For couples who keep ending up in the same place

Couples Therapy Collective offers psychodynamic couples therapy across the UK.

Something shaped between you that neither of you can see from inside. Psychodynamic therapy works with the deeper layer, not just the surface.

## Six therapists. One shared training.

Couples Therapy Collective is a group of six qualified psychodynamic practitioners currently completing advanced specialist training in couples psychotherapy at [Tavistock Relationships](https://tavistockrelationships.org), accredited by the [British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)](https://www.bpc.org.uk).

That training matters because it distinguishes what we do from shorter courses in couples counselling. It is a rigorous, clinically supervised programme grounded in psychoanalytic thinking about how two people construct, and get trapped in, a shared unconscious life.

### Where we train

Tavistock Relationships, BPC-accredited advanced couples psychotherapy training.

- [Anna Scott](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/anna-scott.md): Reigate and Epsom, Surrey
- [Christabel Part](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/christabel-part.md): Box, Wiltshire
- [Geraldine Lothian](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/geraldine-lothian.md): Oxford Circus and SE London
- [Luke Row](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/luke-row.md): Croydon, South London
- [Maria King](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/maria-king.md): Tunbridge Wells and Cranbrook, Kent
- [Myfanwy Champness](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/myfanwy-champness.md): Warminster, Wiltshire

[Meet our couples therapists](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists.md)

## What the work actually does

### The pattern underneath

Psychodynamic work looks at what is happening beneath the surface: the patterns you repeat without realising, the feelings one of you carries for the other, the ways your earliest relationships shaped what you expect from this one.

### What this work reaches

It is slow, often uncomfortable work, and it offers no quick fixes. But it reaches what is actually driving the difficulty between you, not just the symptoms.

[How we work](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/how-we-work.md)

## Where couples usually begin

These are starting points, not the whole picture. What brings you here may not have words yet.

### Affairs

An affair, or the aftermath of one

### Sex

The sex has stopped, or feels impossible to talk about

### Change

Something has shifted and you cannot find each other

### Arguments

The same argument, week after week

### Distance

You are living like flatmates

### Leaving

One of you is thinking about leaving

Some people arrive certain they do not need therapy, they just need to talk better. That is a fair thing to think, and most couples have already tried it. The trouble is that the same conversation keeps collapsing in the same place, and no amount of careful phrasing reaches what is underneath.

This work is not about deciding who is at fault. It is about understanding why the two of you keep ending up here.

## You do not need to have it figured out before you contact us

### Getting in touch

Most couples who contact us are unsure whether therapy is the right step. That uncertainty is a reasonable place to start, not a reason to wait.

Write to a therapist through their profile. All first sessions are attended by both partners together.

[Meet our therapists](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists.md)