Why do intelligent, successful couples become stuck over where to live, whose career comes first, or what their future should look like? This article explores the unconscious fears beneath practical disagreements, including caretaking, appeasement, achievement and autonomy, while introducing reflective exercises that encourage honest conversations and shared decision-making between partners.

Explore your relationships through the symbolic world of The Odyssey. This reflective article introduces figures such as Athena, Penelope, Circe, Calypso, the Sirens and Nausicaa as representations of different emotional experiences, from wisdom and connection to avoidance and recurring patterns. Discover which character may be most alive in your life today through our interactive worksheet.

Therapy does not only happen during sessions; much of the work continues in everyday life through reflection, curiosity and noticing our emotional experiences. These worksheets are designed to help you pause, explore your thoughts and feelings, and prepare for deeper therapeutic work. They are not tests, but invitations to understand yourself more fully over time.

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 […]

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. For many adults, a diagnosis of Attention […]

Is online therapy better through a subscription platform or a private practice? Aristogeiton (Ari) Sotiriou reflects on the British Psychoanalytic concept of the 'therapeutic frame' and explores how the setting you choose shapes the depth, stability, and outcome of your emotional work.

The Parent-Child dynamic in a marriage is often a silent saboteur of intimacy. When one partner consistently carries the "mental load" and adopts a managerial, Parental ego state to handle anxiety, it unconsciously invites the other partner to retreat into a resistant or passive Child ego state. This entanglement creates a "leaky" relationship vessel where...

What the first session reveals about the couple’s dynamic—and why seeing both partners together really matters.