Marina’s approach and qualifications 

Marina’s clinical approach is relational, structured, and emotionally precise. She works actively in the room, helping couples identify the moment conflict escalates and guiding them toward accountability, clarity, and repair. Her work integrates Transactional Analysis and Relational Life Therapy, supporting behavioural and emotional change rather than insight alone.

High-Conflict Couples

Marina specialises in working with couples who feel trapped in repetitive cycles of criticism, defensiveness, withdrawal, control, or escalation.

Many of the couples she supports appear highly functional externally, yet privately experience volatility, resentment, or emotional distance. Her work focuses on identifying the protective strategies beneath conflict: shame, fear, attachment injury, and unmet needs - and helping both partners move beyond blame into responsibility and relational honesty.

Leadership & High-Performing Couples

With her background in business and entrepreneurship, Marina specialises in working with high-achieving and visible couples where ambition, identity, and performance intensify relational strain.

She understands how perfectionism, emotional withdrawal, grandiosity, or high-stakes conflict can develop when success becomes fused with self-worth. Her work supports couples in separating performance from intimacy and developing the capacity to remain emotionally available even under pressure.

Neurodiverse & Mixed-Neurotype Couples

Marina has experience working with neurodiverse couples, including mixed-neurotype partnerships where ADHD or differences in sensory processing, communication style, and nervous system regulation shape relational dynamics.

She helps couples understand how:

• Emotional intensity or shutdown may be protective rather than intentional

• Direct communication can be experienced as criticism

• Executive functioning challenges become relational flashpoints

• Differences in processing speed or emotional expression create misattunement

• Chronic misunderstanding erodes safety and goodwill

Her approach ensures that neither partner is pathologised or sidelined. Instead, sessions focus on building shared language, realistic expectations, and relational accountability. Couples begin to see how neurobiology and attachment patterns interact, and how repair becomes possible when both partners feel seen and respected.

Intercultural Relationships

Marina brings particular depth to intercultural partnerships, exploring how migration histories, family expectations, transgenerational narratives, cultural values, and power dynamics shape attachment and conflict.

She works thoughtfully with questions of belonging, loyalty, identity, and difference, helping couples build understanding across cultural frameworks without erasing individuality.