Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to: When Love and Geography Don’t Agree 0:00 0:00 A Companion to Living Apart, Staying Together By Ari Sotiriou MA PGDip psychodynamic psychotherapist When I first wrote this article and the accompanying worksheet, my aim was to support couples […]

By Ari Sotiriou MA PGDip psychodynamic psychotherapist Il arrive parfois qu’un souvenir douloureux revienne avec une telle intensité qu’il semble se produire à nouveau. Une odeur, un son, une expression sur le visage de quelqu’un ou une situation particulière peuvent soudainement déclencher une réaction émotionnelle très forte. C’est […]

By Ari Sotiriou MA PGDip psychodynamic psychotherapist Flashbacks are one of the most disorienting experiences a person can have. One moment you are going about your day. The next, something — a sound, a smell, a tone of voice — pulls you somewhere else entirely. Your body reacts […]

TRACK_TITLE 0:00 0:00 Listening to By Ari Sotiriou MA PGDip psychodynamic psychotherapist “Why does every difficult conversation end in an argument?” It is one of the questions we hear most often in both individual psychotherapy and couples therapy. A partner raises a concern. Perhaps she says she feels […]

Why does loving feedback sometimes feel like a personal attack? This article explores how childhood experiences, attachment patterns, and core beliefs can make even requests feel threatening. Drawing on British Psychoanalytic Theory and CBT, it explains defensiveness in relationships and how therapy can help partners move from blame, shame, and conflict towards understanding and connection.

Nous vivons à une époque de distractions chroniques. Il est remarquablement facile pour l’esprit humain de s’éloigner de la texture immédiate de la réalité et de dériver vers ce que l’on pourrait appeler familièrement le « Pays des Chimères » — un espace mental caractérisé par la rumination, […]

Most people who eventually find their way into therapy do not arrive with a clear diagnosis of what is wrong. They arrive with something quieter and harder to name — a vague, persistent unease. A sense that something has shifted, or perhaps that something has been missing for […]

When relationships become familiar, we can unintentionally stop noticing the person beside us. This article explores how absence, crisis, and emotional distance reveal what we often overlook in everyday life. Through a psychodynamic perspective, it examines how awareness, reflection, and practical exercises can help individuals and couples reconnect before disconnection becomes loss.

Not sure if this approach fits your current profile? Before exploring the clinical framework below, you can run through our interactive ADHD Triage Worksheet to map your current executive challenges and see which therapeutic avenue aligns closest with your immediate needs. When an adult in a committed relationship […]

Not sure if this approach fits your current profile? Before exploring the clinical framework below, you can run through our interactive ADHD Triage Worksheet to map your current executive challenges and see which therapeutic avenue aligns closest with your immediate needs. An adult diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity […]