About me

Barbora Koblizkova

COSRT-registered Psychosexual, Couples and Trauma Therapist

Chichester & Online

I am Barbora a psychotherapist with over ten years of clinical experience working with the parts of life many of us find hardest to speak about: intimacy, sexuality, relationships attachment, betrayal, and the long imprint of trauma.

Much of my work sits at the meeting point of these themes, because in practice they rarely stay separate. How safe we feel in our bodies shapes how we love. How our earliest relationships went shapes how we argue. How we have been touched, physically, emotionally, shapes how we want to be touched now.

This page is a longer introduction to who I am, how I work, and the training that sits behind my therapy work.

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination"

— Carl Rogers

Why this work matters to me

Over the years, I have been struck by how quietly most people carry painful experiences around closeness and sexuality. Many have come to believe their difficulties are unusual, shameful, or somehow their fault. Very often they are none of these things, they are human responses to the particular history each of us has lived.

What I find meaningful is sitting alongside someone while they stop being alone with it. Not to fix them, and not to push toward a tidy outcome, but to help them make sense of their own experience and discover what becomes possible when shame loosens its grip.

What I have come to trust most, over a decade of this work, is that the mind and body have a natural pull toward healing. My role is to offer the conditions, safety, attention, time, and a relationship in which nothing has to be performed under which that pull can do its work.

My Approach

Many therapies focus primarily on reducing symptoms. My work invites something deeper, a move from “Who do I think I am?” to “Who am I, in my body, in my emotions, in my relationships?”

This embodied awareness is where change tends to take root. As that deeper knowing grows, the difficulties that first brought you into therapy often begin to soften and shift of their own accord, because you are no longer working against yourself.

How I work

My approach is integrative, relational and trauma-informed. My work draws on several therapeutic traditions, shaped by what each person brings:

Attachment theory — understanding how early relational patterns shape adult closeness, conflict and sexuality.
Nervous-system awareness — noticing how the body holds protective responses that talking alone cannot reach.
Psychosexual therapy — working specifically with desire, arousal, pain, shame, identity and the impact of trauma on intimacy.
The Conscious Sexuality model — a somatic, systemic way of thinking about sexuality as part of a whole life.
Mindfulness and somatic practice — used gently, and only where helpful.

I do not give advice, hand out homework, or behave as if I know your answers better than you do. My role is to hold a steady, curious, non-judgemental space and to offer the clinical knowledge and pacing that lets deep material be safe to touch.

Training and registration

I am a registered member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) — the UK’s specialist professional body for psychosexual and relationship therapy. Registration means my training, ethics and continued practice are held to COSRT’s standards.

Training and professional development:

Diploma in Integrative Psychosexual Therapy — Centre for Psychosexual Health, London (2019–2021)
Certification in Couples & Relationship Therapy — The Grove & Centre for Psychosexual Health, London (2018–2019)
Certification in Psychosexual Somatics Therapy & Coaching — London (2016–2018)
Certification in Conscious Sexuality & Systemic Thinking — Denmark (2011–2015)
Diploma in Social Work — Prague (2005–2008)

I undertake ongoing supervision, continuing professional development, and personal therapy as part of my COSRT registration requirements.

Who I work with

I work with adults from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, relationship structures, sexual orientations and gender identities. This includes LGBTQ+ clients and people in non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. I offer sessions in-person in Chichester and online across the UK and Europe.

For the specific areas I work with, please see Psychosexual Therapy, Couples Therapy, or Trauma Therapy.

Curious to talk?

If anything on this page resonates, I warmly invite you to get in touch. There is no pressure to commit. A consultation call is simply a first conversation.

Book your free 15-minute consultation

Psychosexual & Couples Therapist, Chichester