Relationship Issues

Our relationships shape us more than almost anything else. When they are nourishing, we flourish. When they are strained, conflicted, or absent, we suffer - sometimes in ways we don't fully understand. If your relationships are causing you pain, therapy can help you see more clearly what is happening and how to be more authentically yourself within them.

What brings people to therapy for relationships

You don't need to be in crisis to explore your relational life. Many people come to therapy in Prague because something feels persistently "off" - recurring arguments with a partner, difficulty maintaining friendships, feeling lonely despite being surrounded by people, or patterns that repeat across different relationships.

Others come because of a specific event: a betrayal, a breakup, or the discovery that a long-term relationship no longer feels like home.

The person-centred view of relationships

Carl Rogers believed that our difficulties in relationships often mirror the difficulties we have with ourselves. When we learn early in life that certain parts of us are unacceptable - our anger, our vulnerability, our desires - we hide those parts. But what we hide from ourselves, we inevitably bring into our relationships in distorted ways.

Person-centred therapy offers you a relationship - with me, your therapist - where nothing needs to be hidden. In that experience of being fully accepted, many people find they can begin to accept themselves, and this naturally transforms how they relate to others.

Individual or couple work

I work with relationship issues both in individual therapy and in couple therapy. Sometimes the most powerful relational work happens one-on-one, where you have space to explore your own part in the dynamic without the pressure of your partner's presence. Other times, working together as a couple allows for breakthroughs that individual work alone cannot reach.

I offer sessions in English, German, and French at my practice in Prague and online. If relationship difficulties are weighing on you, I invite you to get in touch for an initial conversation.