# Christabel Part

Psychodynamic Counsellor, Couples Therapy Collective. Box, Wiltshire.

BACP Registered Member

Advanced Couples Psychotherapy Training, Tavistock Relationships (BPC accredited)

## Practical details

- Location: Box, Wiltshire
- Availability: In person, weekday sessions
- Languages: English
- Accepting new couples: yes

## Bio

Couples usually come to therapy because something has been in the background of the relationship for a while and has started to press on the foreground. A distance that will not settle. A place you keep getting stuck. A pattern that has been going on for years and has stopped being bearable to ignore.

Psychodynamic therapy works on the assumption that what is difficult now almost always has a longer history. We work slowly, weekly, over time, making space for the patterns that keep repeating and the feelings that are harder to put into words. The point is not to apply a technique or to solve a problem within a session. It is to understand what is actually happening, underneath, so that something has a chance to shift.

Between a couple, that pattern plays out between two people. The argument you keep having carries something older in each of you, and the shape the two of you have made together usually has a logic, even when it feels only painful. Seeing that logic is where the work begins.

I trained as a psychodynamic counsellor and completed a post-qualifying year at Gloucestershire Counselling Service, which is accredited by the [British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)](https://www.bpc.org.uk). I am a registered member of the [BACP](https://www.bacp.co.uk). I also hold additional training in working with neurodivergence, which informs how I think about difference between partners. I am currently completing advanced specialist training in couples psychotherapy at [Tavistock Relationships](https://tavistockrelationships.org), accredited by the BPC. All of my couples work is conducted under close clinical supervision by senior practitioners at Tavistock Relationships.

Much of what interests me clinically sits at the point where something that has felt like 'just how I am' turns out to have a history and a meaning. The move from *that is me* to *that is where I come from* is a quiet one, but it often changes what is possible in a relationship.

If you would like to talk about whether this kind of work might suit you, you can get in touch through the contact form below.

## Couples therapy in Box, Wiltshire

Christabel sees couples in person at her consulting room in Box, Wiltshire. Sessions are weekly, weekdays, fifty minutes. If you are looking for couples therapy, marriage counselling, or relationship counselling in Box and the surrounding area (Bath, Corsham, Chippenham, Bradford-on-Avon), this is where that work happens. She also sees couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent.

## How to enquire

Write through the form on [Christabel Part's profile](https://www.couplestherapycollective.co.uk/therapists/christabel-part). All first sessions are attended by both partners together. Do not submit the enquiry form on someone's behalf unless both partners have asked you to send that message.

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