Pauline
Hodson

Couple & Individual
Psychotherapy

After 35 years of practicing as a couple psychotherapist I no longer see couples for long term on-going psychotherapy.

You will have the opportunity to discuss your situation, think more clearly about your relationship and why you are contemplating therapy now. If we all agree that short term therapy would be appropriate, I would be happy to see you for a further eight sessions.

In many cases short-term therapy is enough to help resolve immediate issues and clients often find that having had the experience of working with me they are more able to work things through together at home. It can become clear after eight sessions that to continue with couple psychotherapy would be really helpful. Occasionally one or both members of the couple decide they would like to see an individual therapist. Whatever the outcome I will do my best to help you find a therapist to refer you on to.

I continue supervising therapists and counsellors who are working with couples.

— Pauline Hodson
Alumna, Tavistock Relationships

About
Pauline Hodson

I have been working as a couple and individual psychotherapist for over 30 years. My early work was with Relate (Marriage Guidance) followed by a four year training at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships where I qualified in 1991 with a diploma in Marital Psychotherapy.

Since qualifying I have worked hard to promote couple psychotherapy both in England and abroad. As Chair of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapy and Counselling I initiated our first International Conference at Keble College Oxford. With Professor Brett Kahr, I put on a Musico-Psychological evening, Couples in Counterpoint, at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House.

Books &
Papers

The Business of Therapy

How to Run a Successful Private Practice

Published in November 2012, this book is filled with important information for the experienced or newly licensed therapist. Addressed primarily to psychotherapists and counsellors, practically every page applies equally to the practice of complementary medicine.

"Essential reading for these practitioners. For it teaches, in far more depth than their training ever does, just what it means to be a therapist."
— John Hamwee, Acupuncturist

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The Invisible Matrix

Professional Relationships in the Service of Psychotherapy

Both therapists and patients operate in a wonderfully complex web of relationships — a formative field as powerful as it is unspoken. This field is as strong and powerful as the unconscious itself.

The book demonstrates how the web of relationships in the wider world shapes our behavior in the consulting room. We are much more social than we might like to believe.

Karnac — Edited by Sasha Brookes & Pauline Hodson

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