Arabella is passionate about helping individuals and couples to rebuild and strengthen their emotional and physical bonds—both with themselves and with each other. Research shows that feeling secure, happy, and connected in our relationships is essential to our emotional well-being. It is this deep understanding of connection that inspires and motivates Arabella in all her work with clients.
Arabella is an experienced and highly qualified psychodynamic relationship therapist. She trained with Relate fifteen years ago and worked for the charity for seven years before starting her private practice in 2016. Psychodynamic therapy is rooted in the belief that experiences from our past shape the way we relate to our partners. Exploring these early influences can help us understand how they may be affecting our current relationship dynamics. While it can be easy to place blame on a partner, it’s often more productive to ask: What are we each bringing to this? What patterns are we stuck in? How can we both shift our behaviours to create meaningful change?
Arabella has helped many couples to address the issues that can lead to pain, conflict, and dissatisfaction in their relationships. These challenges may include emotional disconnection, a sense of incompatibility, a loss of respect or understanding, intimacy issues, the aftermath of an affair, ongoing resentment, repeated arguments and communication breakdowns.
To support and strengthen her couple work, Arabella qualified as a psychosexual therapist at Tavistock Relationships, the internationally renowned clinic and training centre in London. She spent a year working in the NHS Psychosexual Service in Croydon, where she gained invaluable experience supporting patients from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. During this time, she observed the influence that sexual messaging, shaped by family, culture, and society, can have on an individual’s relationship with sex and with their own bodies. These messages often contribute to sexual dysfunction and difficulty. A core element of psychosexual therapy involves exploring and challenging these messages, empowering individuals to reclaim and reshape their own sexual narratives.
Arabella is a sensitive and empathic therapist. She recognises that issues around sex and intimacy are often among the most challenging to talk about. Opening up that conversation with an experienced therapist can be a powerful first step toward creating meaningful change.
Arabella’s first career was as a broadcast journalist with the BBC, working across both radio and television news. She is often asked about the link between journalism and psychotherapy. Her answer is simple: journalism allowed her to tell people’s stories, while psychotherapy has given her the tools to understand and support the people behind those stories, and to help them reconnect with themselves and with their partners.
Arabella is an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is a registered member of the College of Sex and Relationship Therapists (COSRT).
