My approach to couple therapy has developed over years of working with complex, high-conflict, and treatment-resistant relationships—couples who did not respond to conventional methods. It is rooted in systemic and constructivist principles and views relational distress not as pathology but as a pattern of organisation. My focus is on making the structure of interaction visible so that the pattern keeping the couple stuck can finally shift.

 

I work with the understanding that physiology, emotion, and behaviour are inseparable. Drawing from polyvagal theory, I pay close attention to the nervous system, the level of activation in the room, and the way regulation and safety shape the possibilities for connection. Every conversation becomes both a map of what is happening and a place where change can begin.

 

My work is experiential and behavioural rather than abstract or interpretive. I focus on what partners do, say, and enact with each other. Change starts by disrupting destructive conversational patterns, regulating intensity, and guiding partners through structured exchanges where emotional truth can emerge without collapse or escalation.

 

For couples, this approach feels clear, direct, and practical. For clinicians observing it, the work is organised, sequential, and grounded in theory without ever losing its human immediacy. It moves from de-escalation to mapping, emotional restructuring, and the gradual reorganisation of interaction. It is both an architecture of process and a therapeutic stance: directive, impartial, and unavoidably human.