Intercultural & Interracial Relationships
Psychodynamic and EFT-informed therapy for couples and individuals navigating cultural difference
When love crosses cultures, conversations can become loaded with unspoken histories, family expectations, and fears of being misunderstood. Therapy offers a space to slow things down, make meaning together, and respond with greater curiosity and emotional clarity, even when difference remains.
- Intercultural, interracial, and interfaith relationships
- Psychodynamic & Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) informed
- London-based, online sessions available
- Individual and couple therapy
Loving across cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic difference can be deeply meaningful and quietly demanding.
You may find yourselves negotiating unspoken rules about family, loyalty, gender roles, religion, race, or belonging. One of you may feel you are constantly adapting or explaining, while the other feels unsure how to respond without getting it wrong. Conversations that matter can become tense, emotionally charged, or avoided altogether.
Intercultural couples often live at the intersection of external expectations and internalised histories. Therapy offers a space to understand how these pressures shape your relationship and how difference has come to feel difficult, risky, or painful between you.
Working With Difference
Cultural difference does not cause relationship problems on its own.
What causes distress is when difference becomes hard to talk about, easy to misread, or emotionally unsafe to explore.
In intercultural and interracial relationships, partners often carry:
- different emotional languages
- inherited cultural expectations
- unspoken rules about loyalty, belonging, and identity
Therapy helps make these dynamics visible — not to erase difference, but to understand how it lives between you.