Author: Tumee Hugginson

Tumee Hugginson is a psychotherapist and the clinical director of Therapy Atelier, a couples-only practice on the Mornington Peninsula working across Melbourne and online. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and is trained to Level 3 in the Gottman Method, which she integrates with Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment theory and depth-psychological work. Her practice is with couples exclusively — rupture and repair, betrayal and the rebuilding of trust, recurring conflict, and the particular strain carried by intercultural and internationally mobile relationships. Sessions run to ninety minutes, and she also offers three- and five-day couples intensives. She writes here about how couples work actually proceeds, without promising outcomes that no therapy can guarantee.