Anne Hartman

Couples Psychotherapist

I am a Systemic and Family Psychotherapist specialising in couples therapy. Couples therapy is a safe, confidential space where we can talk about anything that impacts your relationship, including money, sex, infidelity, pornography, addiction, sexuality, and gender identity.

Systemic couples therapy aims to achieve meaningful change by equipping you with the understanding and skills you need to navigate your way to a better place. My aim is to help couples understand the underlying dynamics in their relationship while also encouraging them to take action right away to shift unwanted patterns.

While sessions will initially be weekly, as you progress they may become less frequent to give you time to try out new ways of interacting and experience the difference this makes. Some couples achieve their goals in six or twelve sessions, while others may need longer. If you or your partner have been impacted by mental health difficulties, trauma, racism, or discrimination based on gender, sexuality or any other characteristic, we may decide to take things more slowly and have additional sessions.

Areas of Support

  • Communication difficulties

  • Feeling disconnected or distant

  • Trust and infidelity

  • Sex, intimacy and pornography

  • Money and financial pressures

  • Addiction

  • Significant life changes

  • Parenting and family life

  • Separation and divorce, including its impact on children

  • Sexuality and gender identity

  • Trauma and mental health difficulties

  • Racism or discrimination

Therapies offered

  • Systemic psychotherapy

  • Cognitive-behavioural approaches

  • Psychodynamic approaches

  • Integrative couples therapy

Qualifications & experience

  • Over 17 years' experience working with families and couples

  • Former family therapist in CAMHS, Great Ormond Street (Feeding and Eating Disorders and Mildred Creak Unit), and Adult Eating Disorders

  • MSc in Family Therapy, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London

  • MA in Social Work, University of East London/Tavistock

  • Doctorate and former lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck College, London

  • Member of the Association for Family and Systemic Psychotherapy

  • Fully registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

Availability & fees

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