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Webinars with Karen Doherty

Karen’s waiting list is booked for many months ahead so Karen has arranged a series of live webinars, covering:

Is Neurodivergence the missing piece? – April 27th Book with Eventbrite »
Communication & Strategies – May 11th Book with Eventbrite »
Emotional Landscapes & Couple Fit – May 18th Book with Eventbrite »
Intimacy in a modern world – June 8th Book with Eventbrite »

Each webinar is from 7pm to 9pm and includes a live Q&A.
The fee is £65 per couple.

Is Neurodivergence The Missing Piece?
In this online event Karen explores how neurodivergence can affect relationships.

Karen will talk you through how to identify which ND traits impact your relationship and offer strategies for how to work with them.

Is it…..

Communication:- unclear messaging heard in multiple ways and often full of assumption.

Emotional deregulation – including RSD and its reactive responses

Executive function – the unequal mental load leaving one partner overloaded and resentful

Intimacy issues – both partners feeling lonely within the couple

We’ll talk through strategies to improve the situation and there is a 45 mins Q& A for you to ask questions.

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Communication in Couples
This session explores the emotional landscape beneath the visible: conflict attraction attachment compatibility and the impact on intimacy
Neurodivergence can profoundly shape the emotional tone and experience of a relationship from the earliest stages of attraction through to long-term intimacy, attachment, conflict, and connection.

What draws two people together is not always what helps them stay connected. Intense chemistry, hyperfocus, novelty, emotional intensity, or a strong sense of being deeply seen can create powerful attraction in the early stages of a relationship. For some couples, this can feel exhilarating and unusually meaningful. But when the intensity of early connection shifts, partners can be left confused, destabilised, or questioning what has changed.

We’ll explore:

experiences such as limerence, emotional dependency, heightened sensitivity, fluctuating availability,

differing capacities for emotional regulation and closeness.

how love is felt, expressed, pursued, avoided, idealised, or defended against

differences in processing, sensory experience, emotional regulation

This session explores the emotional landscape beneath what’s visible: conflict and the hidden pressures that can quietly shape intimacy.

It helps couples better understand the emotional dynamics between them and offers a more compassionate framework for connection.

We’ll talk through strategies to improve the situation and there is a 45 mins live Q& A for you to ask questions.

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Emotional Landscapes & Couple Fit
Karen Doherty helps couples recognise the patterns that keep them stuck, understand their differences and repair their connection.
Couples are often not arguing about what they think they are arguing about.

Misunderstanding, unspoken assumptions and different ways of processing can mean that both partners are responding from flawed or incomplete understandings of each other.

This creates high levels of conflict, repeated misattunement and little meaningful resolution.

Over time , partners can begin to live increasingly separate emotional lives, intimacy fades, connection weakens.

This session helps couples recognise the patterns that keep them stuck, understand the differences in the way they process information and begin building bridges back to connection.

We’ll cover:

Differences in the way people process information

Patterns that can keep you stuck

Strategies to reduce conflict

Strategies to repair communication

We’ll talk through strategies to improve the situation and there is a 45 mins live Q& A for you to ask questions.

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Intimacy in a modern world
This webinar introduces a deeper framework for understanding intimacy looking at the relational architecture and how to sustain connection
When I ask my clients what intimacy means to them, most people default to physical acts. But intimacy is far broader. It’s energetic. Emotional. Psychological. It’s that reciprocal flow between two people. The ability to feel seen, safe, aligned. Most couples begin with it. But life – children, jobs, housework – gets in the way.

And that’s where things unravel. Not because the desire is gone, but because the route to it is blocked. My work is often about helping couples remember how to access that connection again.

In this session we’ll look at:

What intimacy is

Different types of intimacy, Emotional, intellectual and physical intimacy

Challenges with intimacy

Intimacy and the impact of neurodivergence

Strategies: How to build intimacy in your relationship

Strategies: How to restore intimacy

We’ll talk through strategies to improve the situation and there is a 45 mins live Q& A for you to ask questions.

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Six Week ND Couple Coaching Programme

If you’re neurodivergent – or in a relationship with someone who is – you’ll know that emotions can feel bigger, more urgent, and harder to navigate than most resources seem to account for. This six-week group programme, which runs four times a year and is facilitated by Claire Owens, Psychotherapist and DBT Therapist, is designed with exactly that experience in mind.

Drawing on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) and other trauma informed regulatory approaches, the programme offers practical, evidence-based tools for understanding your emotional responses, managing intensity, and communicating more effectively in close relationships. Open to individuals and couples attending together.

Sessions run weekly for six weeks, two hours each and we will be posting full details shortly.

Couple Fit with ADHD Aware

I developed a course specifically designed for couples impacted by ADHD, which is delivered through ADHD Aware. It is the first course of it’s kind and addresses the issues you face with a new approach. Providing you fresh information, quick and easy to use strategies, real life case studies and group discussions.
Find out more on the ADHD Aware Website »

Areas the course covers:

Neurodiversity introduction to the themes which impact relationships
Communication issues
Emotional dysregulation and its impact on the couple
Executive function: Impairments that affect the life of a couple.
Memory, task organisation, difficulty with planning, distraction, impulsivity
Social issues: Difficulties with friendships, inappropriate behaviours, inability to read nuanced language, over socialising and intimacy issues

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