Joanna Harrison

The challenges of home-based work and schooling may be with us for some time and it feels like this is the hardest bit of lockdown yet. The strongest bonds in relationships can be tested by this. Couples therapy has proved a route to help, we have been offering a 'shorter burst' package of four, once a week sessions. Here, one of our therapists, offers advice on dealing with home schooling pressure. 

Kate Thompson

To help raise awareness of the Sort It Out campaign, which aims to reduce the exposure of children to parental conflict, Kate Thompson, Head of Parenting Services at Tavistock Relationships, offers advice on dealing with family conflict.

Andrew Balfour

Tavistock Relationships is supporting the #SortItOut campaign which calls for immediate action to reduce the damaging impact of frequent, intense and poorly resolved parental conflict on an estimated 1.25million children in Britain.

Patsy Faure

The course leader for our Foundation Course, Patsy, reflects on how she, as a Black therapist, feels about events of this summer and addressing the issus of race and difference in therapeutic work.

Andrew Balfour, CEO, Tavistock Relationships

As part of Healthy Relationships Week, Andrew Balfour explains why the positive outcomes of the reducing parental conflict programmes, for families and children merit continued - or even expanded -funding.

Matthew Bell

Psychoanalyst / City of London Corporation Councilman and Mental Health Champion.

How and why the new City Wellbeing Centre was founded to support the vital issue of mental health in City businesses and communities around them.

Damian McCann, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Learning & Development and Director of City Wellbeing Centre, talks about the support available to City workers and residents at The City of London Corporation’s new City Wellbeing Centre

By Andrew Balfour, CEO of Tavistock Relationships

Following the publication of the organisation's annual review, Andrew Balfour reflects on the last year in relationship support and how Tavistock Relationships has responded.

Richard Meier, policy and projects manager at Tavistock Relationships, talks about the work the charity is doing, funded by BBC Children in Need, to support young people experiencing mental health problems as a result of inter-parental conflict

By Damian McCann, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Learning & Development and Director of City Wellbeing Centre,

Damian talks about the support available at The City of London Corporation’s new City Wellbeing Centre.

We recently offered some advice in the Daily Telegraph on how our thinking and couples therapy techniques can help make your relationship more rubust in these challenging times. Here we expand on it.

By Liz Hamlin, couple therapist and joint head of clinical services at Tavistock Relationships

Sarah Ingram, Head of Tavistock Relationships’ ‘Parenting Together’ programme, talks about the programme and how parents can access this support.

To celebrate Relationships Week (20-26 July) Marian O’Connor offers some insight into how couples have coped in lockdown and the hurdles they might face as we emerge into our new normal. Couples therapy remains an option for those finding it hard.

Our organisational response to the death of George Floyd and the evils of racism and discrimination.

Our guest blogger from the Family Stability Network (FASTN) explains how important work has helped frame the teaching of the new RSE subject into the wider context of healthy relationships for all

What signs professionals offering couples therapy should look for, in order to help.

By Marian O'Connor, Relationship Therapist and Head of Training, Psychosexual Therapy, at Tavistock Relationships

These are pressured times, marriage counselling or couple therapy shouldn't be seen as a last resort for families.

By Joanna Harrison, Visiting Clinician

Interview with our parenting and relationship expert who is part of the offer FREE support for Londoners in 7 boroughs.

Together or separated couples in Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Croydon, Brent and Lambeth (as well as others in the northern Home Counties) can access free relationship and parenting support. John Fenna, of Tavistock Relationships, spoke with Alice Hargreaves, Relationship & Parenting Practitioner working on Tavistock Relationships’ ‘Building Relationships for Stronger Families’ programme, to gather some tips for parenting during lock down.

Alice Hargreaves, Relationship & Parenting Practitioner with Tavistock Relationships

Sarah Ingram leads the ‘Building Relationships for Stronger Families’ programme for Tavistock Relationships. Here she blogs about what we can learn from China as we face more weeks of uncertainty.

Sarah Ingram, Lead, Building Relationships for Stronger Families with Tavistock Relationships

Kate Thompson - a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, faculty staff member and clinical lecturer at Tavistock Relationships. 

In these times couples therapy has moved online to make us feel there is someone outside who can help.