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Sarah Louise | Imago Relationships - Couples Work
Couples Counselling Covent Garden - London
Hello there, I’m Sarah. I work with couples online worldwide and in person in Covent Garden. I help couples overcome anything from minor hurdles to major conflict and support them as they work towards reigniting the spark. My approach is warm and I help couples inject lightness and positivity back into their relationship
Using the Imago dialogue process I hold couples in conversation to work together towards deeper understanding and connection. I've worked with couples in relationships and those who are newly dating since 2011.
If you currently feel stuck with your partner and you both want to work it through, then you're in the right place. Let me tell you more about how I work and more about the Imago process for couples...
Imago Couples Therapy
Have you lost the spark in your relationship or have things escalated to a place where you find that you and your partner can no longer get along? If you find connection and conversation hard right now then perhaps I can help you.
Imago couples therapy really works for couples who are really struggling to understand each other and bring the friendship and connection back to their romantic relationship, the way it was right in the beginning.
If you’re feeling that it’s hard to connect, it’s difficult to hear and be heard in your relationship and that you feel stuck and don’t know how to go from unstuck to connected then I would love to explore working together.
I help couples reignite, reconnect and reimagine their relationship. The couples sessions I hold works when couples are willing to put in the work and take their relationship from a place that feels headed towards a break to rebuilding that deep connection you once had. It’s very possible and I’ve had much success working with couples. I’d love to show you how, using the Imago Dialoguing tools given during my training as a Relationship educator doing couples work.
Just so you feel informd, I use the Imago Dialogue technique, first developed by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt in the 1980’s. Oprah has used it and it takes couples from a place of conflict to conscious coupling and deep connection.
Who Do I Work With?
I work in a gentle assertive way which means most couples feel held in the space and supported, no matter their relationship dynamic.
I work in a completely non-judgemental way and your relationship becomes my priority. I do not work with each individual as a paradigm, I work with the relational paradigm which means I don’t see the individuals in the relationship outside of the couples sessions for individual sessions.
I work with couples from all different backgrounds, identities, sexuality and cultures. I am very LGBTQ+ friendly. I only speak English but can assure you that you will be welcomed warmly no matter how you and your partner identify or your backgrounds. I am an inclusive relationship coach and I also work with couples who have multi-dimensional relationship setups but do only work with the ‘couple’. My work is sex positive and I have a background in education around intimacy of both the emotional and sexual nature in romantic relationships.
My aim is that you feel comfortable enough to explore any topic that is holding you and your partner back from creating the deepest connection possible within your romantic relationship.
Revive and thrive
By working with me, you will be giving your relationship an incredible opportunity to revive and thrive. Not only will you be working towards that reconnection in love, but you may begin to hear and be heard in ways you and your partner have never understood one another before. I’m so passionate about this work and have your relationship at the forefront of my priorities. In the sessions your relationship and how you connect is at the forefront of my professionalism and I will safely, warmly and gently guide you both through the steps until you become proficient.
Not only do I work with those who have been in a relationship or married for a long time, but I also work with those on their way towards long-lasting commitment who want to ensure they are maintaining their relationship and deep-connection ahead of the big day and next chapter in their dating and relating journey. It’s so important for you to both be on the same page and if you currently feel like there’s work to be done, be sure to know that I can support you in this.
Types of issues
There are many reasons why couples come to do couples work.
It could be around conflict, a break down in communication, blended family difficulties, struggles to communicate emotions, losing the spark and feelings you once had in the beginning, a dimming of desire or lack of intimacy. There are also couples in crisis situations such as discovering untruths, affairs, emotional infidelity and more.
No matter how big or small your relationship issues feel right now, just know that the only way to resolve it and bring your relationship back to a place it once was or you would like it to be is with safe, deeply connecting tools and you’ve got to start somewhere.
My approach with Imago is relentlessly positive and I have seen couples feel and reach out to each other, feeling more connected right from the first session. It’s all possible, if you give couples work a chance.
My Imago sessions couples work just as well online on zoom as it does face to face, I can assure you. All you need is two upright dining chairs, a smartphone or laptop, and the desire to recommit to each other and to do the work! Leave the rest to me, I’ve got you both and can’t wait to hear from you.
Online therapy
I work with couples on zoom either weekly or biweekly as the recommendation. All you need is an internet connection, the zoom app and you will both ideally be i the same location but if not, I will show you how to connect to my guidance and to each other in multilocation.If you're in the same room all you will need is two straight backed dining chairs to feel supported and you will be facing me, not the camera, which helps you both to be seen and heard. I will be on the ipad, phone or laptop placed across from you both ideally so you can both hear me clearly. I will need to be able to seeand hear you both and will check in on your body language to make sure you're both safe and well during the session on an emotional level.
Qualifications and registrations
- I am currently studying Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapy with a focus on person centred counselling- I finished Imago Training in Relationships in June 2023 and am labelled an Imago Educator until my level 5 is completed in Stamford.
- Person Centred Level 3 Counselling
Registrations
Specialisations
I work with couples and offer Imago in my couples sessions. I recommend a minimum number of 4 sessions as this is a journey towards deep reconnection but the amount of sessions depends on the couples presenting issues and how much they are ready to do the work to hear and understand each other to recreate connection. Try one session and see how we work together and how you feel about the Imago couples work process.
Imago can be helpful working with infidelity, communication problems, conflicts, issues around blended families around parenting, sexual intimacy issues, emotional connection. I also work with couples who are struggling to connect due to anything from day to day life stresses all the way to experiencing an event that has been traumatic which is holding them back from connecting on an psychologically and physically.
Imago also works beautifully for and with those who want to co-parent who are separated or divorced and want to find a connected way to raise their children in a happy co-parenting environment.
This can work with complex family dynamics too such as parent and child dilemmas or siblings struggling to get along. All relationships are welcome that are willing to 'do the work'.
Most common issues I support people with:
- Relationship Breakdowns
- Intimacy Issues
- Communication
- Infidelity
- Loss or lack of trust
- Emotional Intimacy
Therapies offered
- ✓ Couples counselling
- ✓ Couples therapy
- ✓ Imago relationship therapy
- ✓ Online relationship counselling
- ✓ Relationship Counselling
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Adultery, affair, infidelity
- ✓ Cheating
- ✓ Closed or open relationship
- ✓ Commitment phobia
- ✓ Communication problems
- ✓ Divorce
- ✓ Emotional infidelity
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear of abandonment
- ✓ Insecure in relationship
- ✓ Intimacy issues
- ✓ Jealousy
Fees
£80 for initial 1 hour session - Imago Couple Relationship Work£120 for 90 minute sessions thereafter - Imago Couples Relationship Work
Availability (Opening hours)
Monday | 10:00-20:00 |
Tuesday | 10:00-20:00 |
Wednesday | 10:00-20:00 |
Thursday | 10:00-20:00 |
Friday | 10:00-13:00 |
Saturday | closed |
Sunday | 10:00-13:00 |
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- ✓ United Kingdom
- ✓ (Online) Couples counselling
- ✓ Relationship counselling