Charisse’s approach and specialisms

Charisse works integratively with a psychodynamic and attachment-based foundation.

Her work focuses not only on what is happening between people in the present, but also on the emotional histories, attachment patterns, and relational roles that shape how people experience connection, conflict, intimacy, and emotional safety within relationships.

Many couples arrive believing communication is the problem. The arguments, shutdowns, misunderstandings, or conversations that escalate too quickly can become exhausting and repetitive. But communication difficulties are rarely only about communication. They are often shaped by emotional dysregulation, attachment patterns, relational trauma, resentment, imbalance within the relationship, or longstanding experiences of feeling unseen or misunderstood.

In neurodiverse and mixed neurotype relationships, this may also include masking, burnout, sensory overwhelm, rejection sensitivity, and the exhaustion that develops when couples repeatedly misread each other’s intentions and needs.

This is active, engaged therapy that goes beyond communication techniques or surface-level insight. The focus is on understanding the dynamic underneath recurring patterns and helping clients develop different ways of relating that feel more conscious, stable, and sustainable over time.

Her practice is neurodiversity-affirming throughout. As someone with lived experience of ADHD, she understands both personally and clinically how neurodivergence can affect relationships, emotional regulation, communication, sensory experience, self-worth, and identity.

Alongside relational work, Charisse integrates psychosexual therapy into her practice, recognising that intimacy, desire, shame, sensory experience, and emotional connection are often deeply intertwined, particularly within neurodiverse and mixed neurotype relationships.

She works with couples and individuals online across the UK and internationally, as well as in person in London.

ADHD, Autism, and Mixed Neurotype Relationships

Charisse specialises in working with neurodiverse and mixed neurotype relationships, including couples where one or both partners have ADHD or ASD.

She works with communication breakdown, emotional dysregulation, masking, burnout, sensory overwhelm, rejection sensitivity, and the resentment and disconnection that can develop when neurodivergence is not properly understood within the relationship. This includes work around late diagnosis and the relationship recalibration that often follows, particularly where couples begin to reinterpret longstanding relational patterns through a different lens.

Her approach helps couples move beyond blame and misunderstanding towards a clearer understanding of how each partner experiences connection, conflict, intimacy, and emotional safety.

ADHD Support and Coaching for Individuals

Alongside couples work, Charisse offers ADHD-informed therapy and coaching for individuals. This includes support with emotional regulation, overwhelm, burnout, organisation, motivation, self-esteem, relationships, and the longer-term impact of masking or feeling chronically misunderstood.

Her approach combines therapeutic insight with practical strategies, helping clients better understand how ADHD affects different areas of life while developing ways of functioning that feel more realistic and sustainable.

As someone with lived experience of ADHD, Charisse understands both personally and clinically the challenges of navigating environments and relationships that are not always designed with neurodivergence in mind.

Psychosexual Therapy

Charisse integrates psychosexual therapy into her work with couples and relationships, recognising that intimacy, desire, shame, emotional closeness, and sensory experience are often deeply interconnected.

She works with intimacy and psychosexual concerns including mismatched desire, fear or avoidance of intimacy, emotional and sexual disconnection, infidelity, trust repair, and the distance that develops when needs remain unspoken or misunderstood over time.

Her psychosexual training was applied clinically within the NHS before entering private practice, and this remains a central part of how she understands relationship dynamics, particularly within neurodiverse and mixed neurotype couples where intimacy may be shaped by emotional dysregulation, sensory differences, shame, or burnout.

Her work creates space for couples to speak openly about areas that are often difficult to name, while understanding these difficulties within the wider emotional and relational dynamic.

Relationships, Identity, and Change

Charisse works with LGBTQ+ and gender diverse relationships, as well as cross-cultural and interracial couples navigating differences in identity, culture, faith, expectations, and relational norms.

She also supports couples navigating significant life transitions, grief, loss, parenthood, and periods where the relationship has gradually drifted or become emotionally disconnected over time.

Many couples she works with have tried therapy before and are looking for a deeper understanding of the patterns shaping the relationship, particularly where previous work felt overly surface-level or failed to recognise the complexity underneath the dynamic.

Her approach creates space for couples to explore how identity, difference, personal history, and change shape the relationship, while helping both partners reconnect in ways that feel more honest, stable, and emotionally sustainable.