English-speaking couples therapy in Switzerland is available in Zurich and Geneva but expensive, and options for sustained depth work are limited. For couples where one person moved for the other's career, Switzerland can be particularly isolating: excellent conditions and a social world that's genuinely difficult to enter.
I work with couples who need to work in English and are living in Switzerland. The trailing partner whose professional life didn't transfer. The relationship where one person has a career and a structure and the other has a beautiful apartment and too much time. The slow drift that comes from excellent material conditions and insufficient relational connection.
Switzerland's particular quality is that it's easy to explain to yourself why things should be fine here. Everything works. The comparison isn't favorable. That reasoning keeps people from naming what's actually happening.
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.
Being in Switzerland
For couples in Switzerland: the move here often creates a sharper asymmetry than most. One person chose Switzerland and found their life there. The other arrived and found a very functional context that isn't quite theirs. That gap has a particular quality in a country where self-sufficiency is a cultural value and asking for help can feel like a confession.
What couples bring to online therapy
Couples I work with come for recurring conflict, communication problems, infidelity and broken trust, emotional distance, codependency, resentment, sexless marriage, attachment issues, and the strain of major life transitions. Online marriage counseling and relationship therapy in English make it possible to do this work without geographic limits, whether you need a couples therapist, a marriage counselor, or relationship counseling that goes deeper than communication exercises.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.