About me
Hello. I’m Olivia Mackinder, a certified Psychosexual & Relationship therapist. I work with individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. I practice online (on Zoom) and in person in Richmond, Islington and London Bridge in London.
A registered member of COSRT, I’m fully insured and have regular supervision to make sure I offer my clients the best of me.
As an integrative therapist, I draw on different styles of therapy, including psychodynamic, gestalt, somatic therapy and mindfulness. That means you get Sex & Relationship therapy tailored to you.
I’ve worked for The Awareness Centre and 56 Dean Street. I now have my own private practice in London.
“I found the world to be woefully lacking in safe places. So I became one.”
Finding your voice
Before becoming a Sex & Relationship therapist, I was a copywriter for 20+ years. Creating connections has always been a passion.
To improve the communication in your relationships, it really helps to understand yourself and what’s going on for you.
What do you need to feel good, whole, or fulfilled?
Answering that question is often where we begin.
I can help you:
Tune into your emotional and physical needs.
Learn how to express those needs with clarity, confidence and compassion.
Relate to yourself and others in ways that feel honest, boundaried and free.
Listening to your body
I love Mary’s words here. Parents, teachers, friends, religion, the media, porn: they all give us messages about what sex and intimacy are supposed to look and feel like. Some of those messages are loud and clear, some more subtle and insidious. Sometimes, we may not even realise we’ve taken them on board.
So we’ll explore what you really want: the sex and relationships you’d ask for if you were confident, clear, or unafraid.
What does your body need or even long for? Where is your pleasure, passion, joy, or even ecstacy to be found?
Or, if there’s stress, anxiety or trauma, how do you make your body a safe place to be?
You may not know – so we can start there. If you do, let’s find out what’s getting in your way.
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”
