As Family Therapists we are also known as ‘Systemic Psychotherapists’, because we think about ‘systems’ such as families, couples and groups/team - although we also work with individuals who might like to think about the system they live in.

We work from a premise that we all experience the relationships we live in differently and that conversations about these different perspectives can help us strengthen and grow our relationships. We cherish and invite all the different voices that give families, couples and individuals such rich resources to work out how they might like to go on together.

We are flexible in our approach in terms of who attends these conversations – any combination might be useful and at which point people join can be dynamic and we’ll keep thinking about this. Family Therapy can be done with inviduals, couples, or wider family including neighbours, friends, or other important connections.

We are also very aware that what might constitute a ‘family’ or a ‘couple’ has different meaning for everyone; we have no pre-conceived idea of what that might look like.

We appreciate that Family Therapy is currently only accessible free of cost through mental health services in the NHS with a very high threshold and waiting time to access. But people don’t have to have mental health issues to warrant Family Therapy – there are many aspects to our relationships that are difficult in the context of our current world, that are worth talking about. We set up this non-profit CIC to provide access to family therapy outside the NHS mental health thresholds and with an open mind around what people might wish to talk about. Please see here for our fee structure and how we aim to provide equal access, as much as is within our means. 

While we currently most often work as therapists individually, Family Therapists are unusual in that they often work in ‘teams’. This comes from the idea that, when you have multiple people in a room, more eyes, ears and brains from therapists with different experiences and expertises are very useful in generating different ideas and conversations for families. We may thus, at times in consultation with you, offer to work as 2 therapists in the room.

We usually meet weekly or fortnightly for ‘as long as it takes’; we will have conversations together about when we all feel that things are ‘good enough’.