If you’re struggling with your relationship with yourself, or with those around you, you have come to the right place
Individual psychology, parent coaching and family therapy online and in London, UK
Two Leaves Therapy
A safe space for individuals, parents, families, recovering perfectionists and any humans who could do with being a little kinder to themselves.
A therapy practice which believes that our relationships are central to our wellbeing, and that compassionate validation is vital for healing.
1:1 Therapy for adults and adolescents
Therapy is a space in which you can process emotional pain, experience attentive listening, explore the world through a new lens and build on your existing strengths so that you can start moving from overwhelmed, hopeless or burned out to clear-minded, hopeful and resilient.
Parent coaching, couples and family therapy
In parent coaching, I facilitate reflection on parenting challenges and teach tried-and-tested, reliable and straight forward parenting guidance.
In couples sessions I facilitate a warm and non-judgmental space for couples to feel that both their voices can be heard (it is possible). I help each person to find common ground, hear each other in new ways with a third person as an "emotional translator", develop non-critical ways to communicate about their differences and build on their many innate strengths.
Life is hard…
Psychotherapist Esther Perel is known for saying that, “the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives”.
But what happens when we are carrying relational trauma? What happens when the people we rely on to nourish and sustain us are invalidating or unsupportive? What should we do when we need to re-parent ourselves because of deep ‘mother or father wounds’ in the attachment relationships we had as children? And what is the impact when we are struggling to connect with the people we are closest to?
As Dr Sanah Ahsan has written, if a plant were struggling, we wouldn’t diagnose it with ‘plant wilting syndrome’, we would look at the conditions in which it was trying to thrive. Similarly, when we struggle with our mental health, often the roots are in our relationships- either past, present or both.
If you relate to any of this, it’s not your fault, and it can get better. At some point in our lives we may all need a helping hand from a qualified professional, and reaching out for help is something we should feel proud of rather than ashamed of.
I’m Dr Hannah Ryan,
Experienced Clinical Psychologist and Director of Two Leaves Therapy
I have a passion for working with individuals, parents, couples and families to help them move beyond adversity, distress and conflict towards hopefulness, compassion and connection.
I am a warm, friendly and validating psychologist with many years of training and experience working with diverse individuals facing a complex range of challenges.
My primary specialisms are Compassion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, systemic therapy, and, more recently, Internal Family Systems informed therapy (a type of somatic-based trauma-informed work). I have both passion and extensive experience in working with parenting challenges and parental mental health.
Alongside my independent practice, I also work clinically with parents and care-experienced young people and adults as part of a charity, and I lecture on a Master’s course at UCL and the Anna Freud Centre.
At the heart of my work is the therapeutic relationship with the people, parents and families who come to me for support, as well as a strong belief in the healing power of compassion, validation and processing deeply held emotions in the presence of a supportive therapist when it comes to the relational trauma that keeps us stuck.
If we work together, I hope you will have a sense that I genuinely care deeply about hearing your story, and that you will leave my practice feeling lighter, as well as more connected, heard, validated and understood. Above all, I hope you will leave feeling a little more able to be kind, accepting, supportive and forgiving towards yourself.
You are welcome here.
Sessions provide a judgment-free space in which you can say things like “you’ll probably think I’m mad when I say this” (I probably won’t) and “this is just a small thing that upset me, but…” (the small things are often the big things)
Psychological Therapy
You cannot pour from an empty cup. The Instagrammable cliches are cliche for a reason. Psychological therapy can help you to explore your wellbeing, untangle your thoughts and find a path forward through the fog.
Parent Coaching
Let go of guilt and learn evidence-based theories and tools from parenting models which have been tried and tested in both research and clinical practice. I have a particular specialism in working with parents of children with challenging behaviour, including aggressive and ‘rebellious’ behaviours and school refusal.
