Thea Bailey

She is founder of The Amber House based in the UK. Thea has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and is a qualified counsellor, registered in the UK with the BACP. She is a Certified Gottman Therapist (CGT) for couples, a Gottman Certified Bringing Baby Home® Educator and, is a practicing couples and family therapist. She is also a member of BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association) and supports individuals or couples who are about to start or are going through the process of IVF.

Thea has been a volunteer counsellor, supporting clients processing bereavement at her local hospice and has been a counsellor at a male young offender’s Cat B prison. She delivers mental health training workshops for the UK national charity Mind as well as tutoring counselling skills at her local college. She also works with horses, offering equine assisted counselling for clients local to her. 

Chrissy Hobbs

Chrissy is the founder of Excolo Consulting Ltd based in the UK. She studied for her a degree in Person Centred Psychotherapy BA (hons) at the Metanoia Institute. She has a Diploma in counselling and a Coaching diploma. She is a Certified Gottman Therapist.

Chrissy was a counsellor for a young people’s charity for 5 years, working with teenagers and young adults with anxiety, depression, ADHD and Autism . She started her private practice in 2016 working with individuals and couples. Her recent role as a Global Training Director of Blue-chip Pharmaceutical company has given her experience of helping people at all levels develop their capabilities and learn new skills. She as worked with people from many countries and cultures and has learned how to appreciate their differences. She especially loves to work with couples, who for whatever, reason have lost sight of the love that brought them together. 

Dr Katarina Gaborova

She is founder of K.G Psychological Services, in the Hague, Netherlands . Katarina studied Psychology /Psychophysiology in Melbourne, Australia. With a PostGrad Diploma and Masters degree in Psychology, specializing in Child and Family therapy. She works as a registered NIP psychologist in the Netherlands (Nederlandse instituut voor psychologen). She is a Certified Gottman Therapist (CGT) for couples, and works in her practice using eclectic approach to therapy. Meaning combining CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Voice dialogue, EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), NLP (Neurolinguistic programming) and other approaches in her work with clients. Katarina has been also working as an external psychologist for Erasmus University and other schools and corporations in the Hague. She regularly delivers mental health training workshops related to “Mind full less”, “Turning change into a new opportunity”, “Stressors vs Buffers” and others. She also regularly contributes with her writing to Access magazine (an Expat magazine in the Hague).

Julie Sharon-Wagschal

Julie Sharon-Wagschal is a Dutch-American psychologist, relationship educator, and founder of the Center for Relationship Learning. She offers therapy and workshops for couples, and training and consultation for professionals by using the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy.

Julie has a MA in Counseling Psychology and a BA in Psychology. Julie is a Certified Gottman Therapist, Bringing Baby Home Educator, certification consultant and Advanced Clinical

Trainer for the Level One, Level Two and Level Three Gottman Method Couples Therapy workshops for professionals. She also provides Marathon Therapy for couples and The Art and Science of Love and Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work workshops.

Primarily working within the local international community, Julie has counselled clients from over 50 countries. At her private practice, she helps distressed and disconnected couples to rediscover and reignite friendship and intimacy, and improve their communication skills.