When relationship struggles leave you feeling disconnected or misunderstood, Depth & the City helps you build authentic, resilient connections that support your personal and professional growth.
Depth therapy offers a space to explore patterns and dynamics beneath the surface, empowering you to foster trust, intimacy, and deeper understanding in all your relationships.
Relationship Issues - Personal & Professional
Understanding Relationship Challenges for High Achievers
Relationships can be complex for anyone, but for high-achieving professionals, they often present unique struggles. Success can create pressures that impact trust, intimacy, and communication—whether with partners, family members, colleagues, or teams. You might find yourself excelling at work yet feeling misunderstood or disconnected in your closest relationships.
Common issues include difficulty expressing vulnerability, patterns of avoidance or people-pleasing, challenges balancing work demands with personal time, and repeated cycles of conflict or withdrawal. These challenges can manifest as frustration, loneliness, or emotional exhaustion despite external accomplishments. Therapy provides space to explore these patterns deeply and build more authentic, fulfilling connections.
Is your success costing you connection—with others or with yourself?
Strong relationships are the foundation of a meaningful life and successful career. Yet even high-achieving professionals can find their relationships—at work or at home—plagued by misunderstanding, conflict, or a persistent sense of loneliness. You may be skilled at managing teams, closing deals, or networking, but genuine closeness or feeling truly seen may remain elusive.
In our sessions, we’ll create room to look at the habits, stories, and defenses that shape your relationships. This is a space to reflect honestly on patterns—from communication breakdowns to people-pleasing or avoidance—that keep repeating in your professional and personal life.
My approach is compassionate, thorough, and rooted in depth therapy. I will help you understand the deeper drivers behind your relationship struggles and empower you to build connections that are authentic, resilient, and mutually rewarding.
Why Relationship Therapy with Depth & the City?
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We work with Professionals who...
• Excel in their careers but find connection with partners, family, or colleagues challenging
• Feel stuck in recurring patterns of conflict or emotional distance
• Hide their vulnerability for fear of appearing weak or losing control
• Struggle to balance professional demands with personal relationships
• Need a supportive space to explore their relational patterns and build authentic connections
Our clients are leaders and professionals who want more than just functional relationships—they want depth, trust, and understanding in every connection.
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The D&tC Approach
• Bespoke Therapy: Sessions are tailored to your specific pressures, ambitions, and values. Our therapists have decades of experience in high-pressure environments. We know the challenges, the victories, and how it feels when it’s getting on top of you.
• Real Conversation: We go beyond surface fixes and dig deep, challenging old patterns compassionately. We’re not handing out platitudes - we’ve been there too and will both challenge and support you.
• Modern Strategies: Drawing on the proven strategies of depth psychology, we create sustainable change—not quick wins that fade.
• Consistent Support: Your progress matters beyond the session. We help ensure that insights translate into enduring growth in your daily life.
“Relationship difficulties often arise not from others, but from unspoken patterns within ourselves.”
Depth therapy can help you navigate:
Recurring communication breakdowns or emotional distance
Fear of vulnerability and the urge to protect yourself
Balancing professional demands with personal connection
Recognising unconscious patterns that influence your interactions
“True connection requires work beyond surface solutions—Depth Therapy guides you through the real inner shifts.”
Tools & Insights You’ll Develop:
Identify and shift relationship patterns that no longer serve you
Learn healthy boundaries that foster respect and intimacy
Bring awareness to your relational persona and underlying needs
Cultivate empathy and authentic communication in all areas of life
About Kathleen
Hi, I’m Kathleen, the founder of Depth & the City.
I hold an MBA from London Business School and spent over two decades in leadership in the tech industry. Despite a successful career, I experienced burnout and a profound loss of meaning—challenges that inspired me to become a Depth Therapist.
I believe Depth Therapy is especially powerful for Executives and High-Achieving Professionals facing emotional and psychological struggles. Cognitive approaches alone only scratch the surface, and therapy that offers just listening and gentle reflection risks keeping you stuck in the same patterns. The unconscious mind, if ignored, will continue to influence you in ways you may not understand. Depth Therapy offers a way to engage with these hidden layers, opening the door to profound transformation.
Education & Credentials
Accredited Member, BACP
Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling(with Merit) (Level 7)
Diploma in Gender, Sex, and Relationship Diversity Therapy (Level 6)
Trainee Candidate, Psychoanalysis, CG Jung Insitute, Zurich CH.
Get started in 4 steps
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Check the schedule here and choose a time that suits you for a 15-20 minute free consultation.
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Connect directly with me, ask questions, and discover if expert-led depth psychotherapy aligns with your needs.
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Schedule your first appointment at a time that suits you and begin your depth therapy journey with tailored, professional support.
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Continue your growth through ongoing, personalised sessions—building trust, insight, and lasting change with expert support tailored to your unique journey.
Let’s do this together
Experience a truly modern, expert approach to Depth Therapy—where real insight meets genuine compassion, tailored for City professionals ready for lasting change
How Depth Therapy Works
Depth Therapy is not about quick fixes or checklists. You won’t find worksheets or rigid tools here - you are treated as a thinking, feeling adult with a complex inner life. The work we do goes beyond cognition — we engage emotions and soul, honouring the full spectrum of your experience. You’ll be invited to explore the unconscious parts of yourself, which are inherently unknowable and mysterious. This exploration requires curiosity and creativity as much as insight.
The space we create together offers more time and room for you to regulate and reflect — it might be one of the few places in your life where you can pause, wonder, and even get things wrong without pressure. If you’re open to it, we might use additional tools like drawing, guided meditations, visualisation, or dreamwork to deepen the process. This is about slow, meaningful transformation, not a race to resolution.
