Finding an English-speaking couples therapist in Lebanon who does sustained depth work, and can hold it steady through everything the country throws at daily life, is difficult. The collapse has thinned the clinical community, many experienced therapists have emigrated, and the ordinary instabilities make continuity hard to protect.
I work with couples who need to work in English and are in Lebanon. That might mean the strain of the last several years has settled into the relationship in ways the two of you cannot resolve alone. It might mean something already present grew louder under the pressure. It might mean neither of you can name when it shifted, only that the distance between you is now hard to ignore.
Couples work is about finding what the conflict is actually about, which is usually not its surface. The same argument in different forms. The stay-or-go disagreement that carries everything underneath it. The way years of collective stress wear on intimacy until two people forget they were ever on the same side.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
One thing working in English actually solves: you don't have to do therapy in a language where you can't fully access yourself. That's not a small thing. In a second language, people tend to speak more carefully, more managed. What's lost is often exactly what therapy needs.
Being a couple in Lebanon
Lebanon puts a relentless pressure on relationships. When the currency, the power, the politics, and the basic predictability of life are all uncertain, a couple spends much of its energy simply keeping the household functioning, and the relationship itself gets attended to last. Two people can go a long time in survival mode before they notice how far apart they have drifted while managing everything else.
The most common fault line I see is the stay-or-go question, and it is rarely a clean disagreement. One partner is ready to leave and start over; the other cannot imagine abandoning family, home, or the country itself. Underneath the practical debate sit different tolerances for risk, different attachments, and often a whole unspoken history of who has compromised for whom. A decision that presents as logistical is loaded with the entire relationship.
There is also the quieter erosion. Years of stress leave people depleted, short-tempered, and starved of the ordinary attention that keeps a couple connected. What looks like a relationship problem is partly the residue of carrying too much for too long, with no room left over for each other.
What couples bring
The conflicts that surface usually rest on a deeper question. Sometimes it is the stay-or-go decision and everything it stands for. Sometimes it is the unequal way two people are coping with chronic instability. Often it is the accumulation of unsaid things, set aside because survival kept feeling more urgent than the relationship.
I also work with couples on the standard material: recurring conflict, growing distance, infidelity and trust repair, sexlessness, the question of whether to stay together. Whatever you are bringing, the work looks at what is happening underneath the surface fight, not the fight itself.
How couples therapy in English works in Lebanon
Sessions are online via secure video, entirely outside local networks. Both partners can be on the same screen or in separate locations, including different countries if one of you has already left. Sessions are 60 minutes, usually weekly. A free 15-minute call comes first.
The work is depth-oriented. We do not run through communication-skills modules. We pay attention to the pattern producing the same impasse under different surfaces, which is almost always the actual material.
Fees are in USD by card or bank transfer, which keeps the work independent of the local currency situation. There is no local record and no institutional involvement from our work together.