Pauline Orchard

Relationship Psychotherapist to couples and individuals whose personal relationship or marriage is in crisis or has reached a tipping point. 

Senior Executive and Leadership Coach to business co-founders or SLT board members, jointly or individually, whose working relationship with each other, or relationship with themselves and their role or career, would benefit from confidential, insightful external support and thinking space. 

Transforming relationship dynamics where the stakes are high - whether personal or business, with another or with oneself - is my focus and expertise.

Dual-qualified as both a highly experienced relational and psychoanalytically-informed psychodynamic Psychotherapist (M.A, Tavistock Relationships/UEL) and Executive Coach (triple accredited certification Henley Business School), and with a successful career as a global commercial and communications leader in high-pressured and challenging complex matrix professional service and ‘intrapreneurial’ business environments and media/publishing roles, I draw widely and deeply to tease out conflicting needs and agendas, address the subtle art of building consensus, to access, develop and harness the potential of both personal and business relationships. 

I am also a tutor, trainer and qualifying paper marker/examiner at post-graduate levels. 

I also offer therapy, coaching and consultations to therapists and coaches. 

Clients appreciate my ability to evoke insight, working flexibly and safely at depth to address your needs and area of focus, and ensure you benefit from your trust and investment.  

Location: Richmond, East Twickenham, Teddington, Central London via Zoom/In-person, International via Zoom

Personal relationships: Couple/Individual  I work with an international client base of couples and individuals, often managing the pressures of highly successful and demanding professional careers with home, who want to understand and explore whether their closest relationship can meet both their needs again. There is often much at stake, an urgency or crisis, with a sense of fewer options left within the relationship for one or both. It can feel as hard to begin to see how to stay and reconnect, as it can to make the decision to separate. I work with you to understand how you might start to address this and find a new and positive way forward together. 

I also support those who have decided to separate or divorce. Often referred by (or working alongside) lawyers, many feel deeply ambivalent, emotionally and psychologically, caught up in a legal process moving faster than they are, they want to be sure they are doing the right thing. Others want to do this well, collaboratively, for themselves, but also particularly often for the children and their future co-parenting relationship. 

Business relationships: Individual/Familybusiness/Entrepreneurial Co-founders I work with board level executives to explore their relationship with themselves and their role, to access their strengths strategically and hone their interpersonal skills for maximum impact and relational edge. Particularly useful in times of transition, integration or challenge internally within their senior leadership team/board and with external stakeholders, between existing or new board members, or between entrepreneurs having co-founded a highly successful business together, finding that communication has broken down over the years under pressure to perform and expand the business, their initial friendship and the business suffering, reflecting their strained relationship.

I offer an initial relaxed exploratory conversation either on the phone or via Zoom to give us a chance to connect, to get a sense of your needs and desired area of focus at this time, answer any questions you may have, and if suitable, consider how we might best work together.  

Relationship Psychotherapist to couples and individuals whose personal relationship is in crisis or has reached a tipping point.  

Senior Executive and Leadership Coach to business co-founders or SLT board members, jointly or individually, whose working relationship with each other, or relationship with themselves and their role or career, would benefit from confidential, insightful external support and thinking space.

Transforming relationship dynamics where the stakes are high - whether personal or business, with another or with oneself - is my focus and expertise.

Dual-qualified as both a highly experienced relational and psychoanalytically-informed psychodynamic Psychotherapist (M.A, Tavistock Relationships/UEL) and Executive Coach (triple accredited certification Henley Business School), and with a successful career as a global commercial and communications leader in high-pressured and challenging complex matrix professional service and ‘intrapreneurial’ business environments and media/publishing roles, I draw widely and deeply to tease out conflicting needs and agendas, address the subtle art of building consensus, to access, develop and harness the potential of both personal and business relationships.

I am also a tutor, trainer and qualifying paper marker/examiner at post-graduate levels.

I also offer therapy, coaching and consultations to therapists and coaches.

Clients appreciate my ability to evoke insight, working flexibly and safely at depth to address your needs and area of focus, and ensure you benefit from your trust and investment.

Location: Central London via Zoom/In-person, International via Zoom. Also Richmond, East Twickenham, Teddington.

Personal relationships: Couple/Individual I work with an international client base of couples and individuals, often managing the pressures of highly successful and demanding professional careers with home, who want to understand and explore whether their closest relationship or marriage can meet both their needs again. There is often much at stake, an urgency or crisis, with a sense of fewer options left within the relationship for one or both. It can feel as hard to begin to see how to stay and reconnect, as it can to make the decision to separate. I work with you to understand how you might start to address this and find a new and positive way forward together.

I also support those who have decided to separate or divorce. Often referred by (or working alongside) lawyers, many feel deeply ambivalent, emotionally and psychologically, caught up in a legal process moving faster than they are, they want to be sure they are doing the right thing. Others want to do this well, collaboratively, for themselves, but also particularly often for the children and their future co-parenting relationship.

Business relationships: Individuals/Family business/Entrepreneurial Co-founders I work with board level executives to explore their relationship with themselves and their role, to access their strengths strategically and hone their interpersonal skills for maximum impact and relational edge. Particularly useful in times of transition, integration or challenge internally within their senior leadership team/board and with external stakeholders, between existing or new board members, or between entrepreneurs having co-founded a highly successful business together, finding that communication has broken down over the years under pressure to perform and expand the business, their initial friendship and the business suffering, reflecting their strained relationship.