Specialist couples therapist
Culturally attuned therapy that allows you to be seen
Psychotherapy for couples and individuals exploring relationships, identity, and emotional life.
Priya Sidhu is a British-Indian psychotherapist working with couples and individuals.
Her practice brings together systemic and psychodynamic thinking with a particular interest in interracial and cross-cultural relationships, identity and belonging, and the ways in which family, history and lived experience influence how we relate to ourselves and others.
She offers a thoughtful, culturally attuned space for people navigating both difficulty and change in their relationships and inner lives.
My path into psychotherapy was not a conventional one. My academic background is in law, and before training as a psychotherapist I worked for over a decade in finance in high-pressure environments. These experiences gave me a deep appreciation of the complexities of human behaviour, the pressures of responsibility and achievement, and the ways in which our relationships influence every aspect of our lives, including our professional ones.
Alongside my career, I have travelled extensively and completed over 700 hours of yoga teacher training. Meeting people from different cultures, communities, and walks of life has continually reinforced my belief that there is no single way to be human. These experiences have expanded my capacity to approach others with curiosity, openness, and respect for the unique circumstances that inform each person’s story.
My yoga practice has refined my attention to embodiment — to the ways in which emotional experience is held, communicated, and sometimes withheld in the body, especially as it appears within relational and couple dynamics.
I am particularly interested in relationships shaped by cultural difference, and how culture, race, and history can influence the intimate spaces between people — how closeness is negotiated, how misunderstanding takes hold, and how repair becomes possible.
These experiences sit behind my clinical work, and continue to inform my thinking about how people come to understand themselves within relationships marked by identity, context and belonging.
About me
I work with both couples and individuals in a consistent weekly setting, where therapy becomes an active and collaborative process. We think together about what is happening in your life and relationships, and how it might be understood in context—emotionally, relationally, and over time.
Couples therapy
Couples often arrive when something between them feels stuck, strained, or uncertain. For some, this is experienced as crisis; for others, a quieter sense of distance, repetition, or disconnection that has become difficult to shift alone.
Our work pays attention to the relational field between you—how patterns are formed, how they are maintained, and what becomes difficult to say or hear. The aim is not simply to resolve conflict, but to understand what the conflict is communicating about each person and the relationship itself.
Alongside this, I support couples through key transitions, including pre-marital therapy, parenting changes, infidelity and the rebuilding of trust, and the decision to separate or remain together.
Individual therapy
Individual work offers a space to explore your inner and relational world in greater depth. This may include recurring patterns in relationships, questions of identity and belonging, or the impact of past experience on present emotional life.
At times, it is less about finding answers and more about developing a clearer way of seeing—one that allows different possibilities to emerge.
The work we do together
Whether I am working with a couple or an individual, the process is reflective, paced, and collaborative. We attend closely to what is said and what is not yet possible to say, and to the meanings carried in patterns of relating.
My intention is to create a space where experience can be thought about with care and precision, so that change is not only possible, but felt as something coherent and lasting.
I am based in London and work online with individuals and couples across the UK and internationally.
How I work
What shapes my work
My work with couples and individuals is informed by an awareness of how identity, context, and power shape emotional life and relationships.
I am particularly interested in interracial and cross-cultural relationships, and how experiences of race, difference, and belonging can enter both the therapeutic space and the couple relationship itself. These dynamics are often not spoken about directly, yet they can strongly influence how people experience closeness, misunderstanding, defensiveness, and emotional distance.
In this work, I hold in mind not only the personal and relational aspects of difficulty, but also the wider social and historical forces that frame how we come to understand ourselves and one another. This includes systemic inequality and racism, cultural expectation, and inherited narratives that can sit beneath awareness yet underpin patterns of intimacy and conflict.
A central part of the work is often about bringing these dynamics into clearer view, with care and curiosity rather than judgement. Therapy becomes a space where what has previously felt difficult to name can begin to be thought about and understood together.
My aim is not to impose a framework, but to stay close to each couple or individual’s lived experience, and to think with them about what their difficulties may be revealing about their relationships, their histories, and the wider worlds they are part of.