Relationship advice & insights.
I'm Mark Ryan, a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist and NCPS Accredited Relationship Therapist working with relationships, couples, individuals, and polycules across London. This is where I write about the things that come up most often in the therapy room; jealousy, coming out to a partner, separation, sex and intimacy, and the ordinary arguments that usually aren't about what they first appear to be about.
Some of what's here is written for couples working through something together. Some of it is for one person trying to make sense of their own experience before bringing a partner into it. All of it is grounded in research and real clinical practice, not generic advice dressed up as insight.
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- Attachment 7
- Attachment and Patterns 2
- Communication 5
- Communication and conflict 7
- Consensual Non Monogamy 2
- Couples therapy London 66
- Emotional Abuse 3
- Ethical Non Monogamy 2
- Infidelity & Betrayal 5
- Jealousy 3
- LGBT+ Therapy 19
- LGBTQ+ Couples 13
- Labels 4
- Mental Health and Wellbeing 19
- Money and Relationships 4
- Non-Monogamy and Open Relationships 1
- Parenting 3
- Polyamory 2
- Pre-Marital Therapy London 1
- Relationship Therapy London 1
- Relationship therapy London 64
- Separation and Divorce 7
- Sex and Intimacy 8
- Summer 4
- Trust and Repair 4
Am I in a Relationship With a Covert Narcissist? The Manipulation Tactics That Are Hard to See
Why covert narcissistic manipulation is so difficult to name while it's happening, the specific patterns to recognise, and what tends to help.
Coercive Control vs Conflict: Knowing the Difference
A London relationship therapist on how professionals and the law distinguish coercive control from ordinary relationship conflict, and why the difference changes what kind of help is appropriate.
Signs of Emotional Abuse in a Relationship
What emotional abuse looks like in a relationship, what it isn't, and how to tell the difference. A London couples and relationship therapist explains.