Fiona Reidy

Couple and Individual Psychotherapist

Professional Profile

I am an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist working with individuals and couples to understand emotional and relational difficulties. I offer a thoughtful, compassionate and non-judgemental space to explore patterns, conflicts and transitions in relationships and life. More than anything, I help people to have difficult conversations that can be hard to have on their own.

People come to therapy for many different reasons — recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, struggles with intimacy or trust, significant changes or loss, or simply wanting to understand yourself and your relationships more deeply. Some people come at the onset of a major rupture, while others have spent years going around the same issues. Some come curious to embark on a new phase of their relationship, such as deciding to start a family or finding ways to bring more play and joy into intimacy. Others are going through deeply painful transitions in who they are and what they want. All are welcome.

Therapy can also be a place to talk about the things that feel difficult to say elsewhere. This might include sex and intimacy, pornography, addiction, shame, or questions about identity and relationship structure. You do not need to know exactly how to talk about these things before you come — we can find a way to begin together.

Trained at Tavistock Relationships, I support clients with a range of concerns, including communication difficulties, relationship ruptures, grief and loss, and understanding how early experiences shape our capacity for intimacy, trust and emotional connection. I offer specialist support during significant transitions, including becoming parents, and thinking about separation or divorce.

I also have specialist experience in perinatal mental health and parent-infant relationships, working with individuals and couples through pregnancy and early parenthood. Babies are welcome in sessions where appropriate, creating space to think together about the emotional life of the growing family.

My practice is inclusive and sensitive to the ways that identity, culture, trauma and wider social circumstances can shape our emotional lives and relationships. I welcome people from diverse backgrounds and relationship structures, including LGBTQ+ people, people exploring or transitioning their gender, and those in non-monogamous relationships. I aim to offer a collaborative and reflective space where we can think together with curiosity and care.

Training and Qualifications

• PgDiploma in Individual and Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Tavistock Relationships
• MSc Sociology in Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam
• BA English and Sociology, University College Dublin

I have also undertaken further training and continued professional development, including Parents as Partners at Tavistock Relationships, parent-infant psychotherapy with the Anna Freud Centre, and training in trauma-informed care and perinatal mental health at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

I trained and later worked as a senior visiting clinician at Tavistock Relationships, supporting individuals and couples with a wide range of relational difficulties. Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent over a decade working internationally in non-profit and human rights organisations. This experience continues to inform my awareness of the wider social and cultural contexts that shape our lives and relationships.

Professional Affiliations

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
• Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (TRAPC)
• Association for Infant Mental Health UK (AiMH)

Appointments

I offer weekly 50-minute sessions for individuals and couples, online and in person.

Contact details:

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