The Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Couples Psychotherapy (JPACP) group was established in 2013 for qualified and experienced psychodynamic couple and relationship psychologists whose aim is to help those maintaining a satisfying and stable couple. As a group of well-trained professionals, we are all keenly interested in the dynamics of relationships and what actually happens when two individuals get together to form an intimate relationship. Our members are based in Johannesburg and elsewhere and are able to offer online counselling.  Couple therapy aims to offer something helpful or valuable to a specific relationship that a couple can take away with them and integrate.

It is naturally challenging and daunting for any one of us to understand ourselves, and then another with whom we want to have a positive, successful and creative couple relationship.

At the JPACP, we have come together as a group of psychoanalytically trained professionals who strive to help couples to navigate their unique couple relationship.

Through our clinical practice, we recognise the need for ongoing training and supervision in couple psychotherapy work. We expose ourselves to cutting-edge research and international practice – and as a result we are able to share our clinical experience of relational counselling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy with each other. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical clinical learning and application in the couple psychotherapy we offer. 

The group meets on a monthly basis throughout the year. We also participate in additional workshops, seminars and conferences. All of our members abide by ethical standards and we attend clinical supervision which is a practice requirement for all psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors. This ensures that we uphold high professional standards and work appropriately, ethically and safely.