Mr Mark Leach

I am a psychosexual and relationship therapist with over 25 years experience.

I help adults, couples and families who struggle with intense emotions, relationship difficulties, high levels of conflict, and sexual problems.

I am passionate about helping people build their resilience and emotional strength so they can manage conflict skilfully and create thriving partnerships. All are welcome.

THERAPY - Caring for you

My aim is to support people to make relationships in your life more fulfilling, authentic and intentional.

I provide individual, couples and family work incorporating a compassionate approach to build resilience and emotional strength based on the work of Meli O’Brien and Tara Brach (to name but two) which I link to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and my couples work.

From a humanistic start, I moved into psychosexual and couples work and then into DBT. My DBT draws on the work of Alan Fruzzetti/Marsha Linehan and incorporates the work of Esther Perel, Bader-Pearson and others. Specifically, I use DBT and integrate the work of Bader-Pearson (Developmental Model), to help individuals / couples / others to identify patterns of disconnection, manage relationship conflict and create thriving partnerships.

I tend to work with ‘high conflict’ couples and individuals and other relationship forms (including polyamory), psychosexual issues, sexual orientation and gender.

In addition, I run a relationship skills based program to enhance communication and understanding where conflict has occurred. The goal is to be the best partner, parent, sibling, friend and relation we can be.

 

QUALIFICATIONS & ACCREDITATION

AccCOSRT(sen) [Senior Accredited Member of COSRT]

AccCOSRT(sup) [Accredited Supervisor COSRT]

UKCP Registered

Dip SW:

Dip HE;

PG Dip Psychosexual Psychotherapist;

PG Dip Supervision & Organisational Consultancy.

EXPERIENCE

I have worked in the NHS for 25 years. I worked in a specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) personality disorder service (14 years) and as a psychosexual and relationship therapist (25 years). I work in private practice.  I tend to work with high conflict couples. I supervise trainee psychosexual therapists on the London Diploma course and taught for over 10 years.

I trained at the Whittington Hospital/South Bank University and I am a senior accredited member and an accredited supervisor of the College of Sex and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) and a member of United Kingdom College of Psychotherapists (UKCP).

One thing to be clear on when you’re choosing a psychologist, is that therapists are humans too. This means no one therapist will feel ‘right’ for everyone. I want you to know that that even if we aren’t a helpful match, there will be a therapist out there for you, so please hold hope that you can be supported in the way you need.

TEACHING

DBT annual conference – Working with Couples

London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy (LDPRT) Alumni – DBT with couples  

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