Janine Sinnott

Hello — I’m Janine, a psychotherapist working with couples in Nantwich, Cheshire, and online across the UK.

Most of the couples I see aren’t here because something dramatic has happened. They’re here because something quietly has. The arguments have started looping. The conversations have got shorter. The sex has thinned out, or stopped. You’re functioning brilliantly as parents, as a household, as colleagues running the family logistics, but something that used to be between you has gone missing, and you don’t quite know how to get it back.

Sometimes it’s louder than that. An affair has surfaced and you’re both in the wreckage trying to work out whether, and how, to rebuild. A betrayal has finally come out. A version of one or both of you has changed in a way the relationship hasn’t caught up with. Whatever has brought you here, you’re welcome.

I work using Imago Relationship Therapy, an approach designed specifically for long-term relationships. It’s structured but very human, with techniques I’ll guide you through in the room rather than free-flowing argument that just replays what you do at home. What Imago does well — and why I am passionate about it — is help couples slow down enough to actually hear each other. Most long-term conflict isn’t really about the surface issue; it’s about the unmet need underneath, and the older wound that need is sitting on top of. Imago gives us a way to surface that gently, without one of you becoming the villain.

In the room I’m warm, down to earth, and properly honest with both of you, kindly. I don’t take sides. I won’t tell you whether to stay or go. I’ll be straight with you about what I’m seeing and I’ll celebrate with you in your progress.

Sessions are 60 minutes, in person at The Psychotherapy Place on Audlem Road in Nantwich, or online across the UK. To enquire, please get in touch via hello@thepsychotherapyplace.co.uk or through my website.