Katia Castiglione

Please contact Katia directly to check her current availability as her schedule may change periodically.

Katia believes relationships matter deeply. When couples become caught in painful patterns of conflict, distance, or misunderstanding, it can feel lonely, overwhelming, and difficult to find a way back to one another. Therapy can provide a safe and reflective space to slow things down, explore what is happening beneath the surface, and begin rebuilding an emotional connection between partners. 

Katia’s approach is warm, thoughtful, and non-judgemental. She aims to create a therapeutic space where both partners feel heard, understood, and supported. Together, she helps couples explore not only the patterns they may find themselves stuck in, but also the deeper emotions, attachment needs, and past experiences that shape how they relate to one another.

Her work is grounded in an attachment-based understanding of relationships, recognising how important emotional connection, safety, and responsiveness are in our closest relationships. Drawing on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and psychodynamic psychotherapy, Katia helps couples identify the cycles that keep them disconnected, strengthen emotional bonds, and develop new ways of relating to one another. Rather than focusing on blame or identifying who is right or wrong, she helps couples make sense of the patterns that develop between them and discover new ways of responding to each other.

Even when relationships feel stuck or strained, Katia believes therapy can help couples create meaningful and lasting change. Through therapy, couples can gain deeper insight into one another’s experiences, strengthen emotional connection, and find new ways of navigating difficulties together.

Katia works with couples experiencing:

• Communication difficulties and recurring conflict
• Emotional distance and disconnection
• Loss of intimacy and sexual difficulties
• Infidelity, betrayal, and rebuilding trust
• Parenting challenges and family transitions
• Anxiety, stress, and low mood affecting relationships
• Life changes, illness, ageing, and caregiving pressures
• Cultural, identity, and cross-cultural relationship issues
• Attachment difficulties and relationship patterns that feel hard to change
• Differences in emotional needs and attachment styles

Katia is an experienced bilingual couple’s psychotherapist with many years of clinical experience in private practice and at Tavistock Relationships in London, an internationally recognised centre for couple therapy training and research. She holds a master’s degree in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and has specialist training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Mentalization-Based Treatment for Couples Therapy (MBT-CT).

At The Practice in East Molesey, Katia works exclusively with couples and offers both face-to-face and online sessions. Fluent in English and Italian, she works with couples from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. She is mindful of the ways culture, family values, migration, and identity can shape relationships and experiences of connection. She is also a regular guest speaker in the Department of Psychology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Katia is committed to providing an inclusive, respectful, and non-judgemental environment for couples of all backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, and relationship structures.

She is a registered member of the Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (TRAPC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Fees: £110–£120 per 50-minute session.