Juan Korkie is a Clinical Psychologist with more than two decades of experience working with individuals, couples, and families across South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. He is licensed to practise in all three countries and works primarily with relational distress that has become repetitive, entrenched, or difficult to shift through insight alone.

 

Drawing on systemic, constructivist, and polyvagal theory, Juan integrates multiple perspectives into a coherent, practice-based approach to change. His clinical work focuses on how relationships organise emotion, meaning, and interaction under pressure, and how these patterns shape what partners experience with each other over time. He has led clinical services, supervised multidisciplinary teams, and trained practitioners in approaches that prioritise structure, regulation, and relational depth.

 

Juan’s work developed through sustained engagement with couples for whom traditional approaches had stalled. His writing and teaching centre on making the invisible structure of relationships visible — the recurring patterns that quietly govern how partners speak, react, protect themselves, and miss each other. His focus is on bridging clinical theory with lived relational experience, and on translating complex psychological ideas into work that is usable, grounded, and emotionally real.