Romany Leach

I currently have limited availability for online sessions on Mondays and Tuesdays. 

I don't have any in person availability at the moment, but I am operating a waitlist if you'd like to be contacted when a space opens up.

Hello. I am a relational psychodynamic psychotherapist working with adults. I have a particular interest in supporting high-achieving professionals and creative artists who, despite an outwardly successful life, may feel privately underwhelmed or under strain, and who are navigating the complex stress, pressure and unique demands of their roles and industries.

My way of working is collaborative, reflective and exploratory: we think and feel our way through things together. Drawing on relational and psychodynamic approaches, with a strong emphasis on attachment theory, we'll explore how earlier experiences and unconscious processes shape your present life, relationships, and sense of self.

My hope is for us to work together towards deeper understanding of yourself, and for this to lead to practical change in your life.

Therapy with me may be helpful if you are:

•⁠ ⁠Feeling stuck in recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, behaviour, or relationships

•⁠ ⁠Managing perfectionism, burnout, imposter feelings, or the hidden pressures of leadership and high performance

•⁠ ⁠Struggling with intimacy, distance, trust, or navigating non-traditional or diverse relationship structures

•⁠ ⁠Noticing past experiences being replayed in your current relationships or work

•⁠ ⁠Facing creative blocks, meaning crises, or questioning identity, values, or direction in life

•⁠ ⁠Navigating life transitions such as career change, parenthood, peri/postnatal adjustment, menopause, ageing, or later-life shifts

I bring particular experience in working with anxiety, depression, stress, and feeling overwhelmed; identity, gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity (GSRD-affirmative); attachment and relational patterns; emotional understanding, expression, and regulation; physical health concerns; and peri/postnatal experiences, menopause, and transitions across the lifespan.

If this resonates, you're welcome to contact me for a brief initial conversation to see if we're a good fit. 

In our work, the therapeutic relationship becomes a safe, contained space to explore how you relate to others and to yourself, how you protect against vulnerability, and how your attachment patterns show up in everyday life. Over time, this can deepen emotional literacy and regulation, ease distress, and open up new possibilities for living and relating.

I typically work long term, which is because psychodynamics works at a depth level, focussing on unconscious processes and the roots of patterns, not just surface symptoms. 

However, I also offer short term work which can be oriented towards a psychodynamic model, or based on CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), CFT (compassion focussed therapy), or ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy). 

I am couples-trained and welcome working with couples and other relationship constellations. I work from an affirmative, strengths-based, progressive perspective, attuned to complex, ambitious and creative lives.

Sessions are 50 minutes, usually weekly.

Education and Training

MA Psychodynamic Counselling, Goldsmiths University of London (First Class Honours) 

BSC Psychology with Counselling, The Open University (First Class Honours)

Integrative Counselling, Lambeth College London 

I am currently in the final year of a Counselling Psychology Professional Doctorate at the University of the West of England in Bristol (DCounsPsych)

If you'd like to know more, I offer a free 15-20 minute consultation call. This gives you a chance to meet me, learn more about how I work, discuss your needs, and decide whether we're a good fit to work together.

If you choose to continue, we'll arrange a time for our first session.

Face-to-face sessions take place in central Bath. For online sessions, you'll need access to video software (such as Teams, Zoom, FaceTime or Google Meet) and a private space where we can continue our therapeutic conversation.