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Couples Therapy for relationships affected by ADHD.

ADHD-informed therapy for couples who want to understand patterns, improve communication, and work better together.

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How Couples Therapy Works Here

Couples therapy at ADHD Horizon is psychology-led, ADHD-informed, and focused on how ADHD-related difficulties may be affecting the relationship.
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It is not offered as general couples counselling. The work is structured around understanding the patterns developing between partners, making sense of how ADHD may be contributing, and helping couples move towards clearer, more workable ways of relating.
The emphasis is on improving shared understanding, communication, emotional regulation within the relationship, and practical ways of responding to recurring difficulties in day-to-day life.
Where relevant, the work can also take into account how additional factors, such as autistic traits, anxiety, low mood, burnout, trauma-related difficulties, or emotional dysregulation may be interacting with ADHD and affecting the relationship.

What Couples Therapy Can Help With

Couples therapy can help with areas such as:

  • understanding how ADHD may be affecting the relationship

  • making sense of recurring conflict cycles, misunderstandings, or disconnection

  • improving communication and emotional regulation within the relationship

  • working through shared routines, responsibilities, and day-to-day strain

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  • reducing blame, resentment, or repeated escalation

  • rebuilding connection, understanding, and a greater sense of working together

  • developing more collaborative and workable ways of responding as a couple

Why Choose Couples Therapy?

For some couples, difficulties become established in the pattern between partners, rather than sitting with one person alone. Couples therapy may be particularly helpful if you are looking for:
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  • an ADHD-informed way of understanding relationship patterns

  • a shared space to talk things through in a structured and clinically contained way

  • support with communication, conflict, repair, and connection

  • help developing routines, agreements, and responses that fit the realities of ADHD

This pathway is designed for couples where joint work is likely to be the most helpful and appropriate format.

Who This May Suit

Couples therapy may be appropriate if you are:

  • finding that ADHD or ADHD-related difficulties are having a meaningful impact on the relationship

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  • wanting support with recurring patterns such as conflict, misunderstanding, disconnection, or uneven day-to-day functioning

  • both willing to engage in a structured, joint therapeutic process

Both partners must be adults and able to participate freely, safely, and voluntarily in online joint sessions. Couples therapy is not automatically suitable for all couples in distress, and may not be the right format where safety, coercion, intimidation, domestic abuse, or other factors make joint work unsuitable.

Practicals

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Fees:
£120 per 60-minute session
Format:
Sessions are delivered online via a secure clinical platform.
What sessions include:
​Sessions are a full 60 minutes. Couples therapy is delivered as joint work, with the number and spacing of sessions discussed and agreed collaboratively.
Attendance and participation:
Couples therapy normally requires both partners to attend. If one partner is unable to attend, the session will not usually proceed as couples therapy unless this is clinically appropriate and agreed within the work.
For clarity and safety, couples therapy at ADHD Horizon is not mediation, legal advice, domestic abuse work, or crisis / emergency support.

How to get started

Register your interest by completing a short form to tell us what you need help with.
We will review your enquiry and get back to you by phone, or by email if you prefer.
If Couples Therapy seems appropriate, both partners will be guided through the next steps.

Still Deciding?

Some people may be unsure whether couples therapy or another pathway is the better fit.
If you’re unsure which option may be the best fit, you may find it helpful to:
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