Couples therapy · Prague 7 – Letná
My name is Zdeněk Nový and I’m a couples therapist. In a safe and impartial space we’ll uncover together what stands between you — arguments, silence, lost trust. We’re not looking for someone to blame. We’re looking for a way to truly hear each other again.
from arguments to understanding
from silence to conversation
from distance to closeness
from mistrust to security
on the same side again
parenting as a team
You don’t have to be able to name it. The feeling that something is stuck between you is enough. Tap the topic closest to you to read how it can show up and how we work together.
Three common situations. I don’t explain theory to you – I slow the conversation down right where it breaks down and help you hear what the other person is really saying.
Communication
He takes a breath to defend himself. At that moment I pause the conversation and ask him what’s happening in his body right now. “My stomach tightened.” I ask her what she actually wanted to tell him. “I was waiting for you and I felt sad.” A conversation that would have ended in a fight within a minute carries on.
what helps: slowing down and mirroring
Trust
After months of silence she finally asks. He doesn’t answer with a defense. He speaks slowly, with pauses we make room for together, and she observes whether his words match how he looks as he says them. For the first time she feels the answer is honest, not just convenient.
what helps: acknowledgment before explanation
Closeness
They sit facing each other. Their only task is to look at each other and breathe. For the first minute they both laugh and look away. In the third minute their breathing starts to fall into sync on its own. Then he says: “I can’t remember the last time we were this close without having to sort something out.”
what helps: breathing together
I don’t decide which of you is right.I don’t take either side. I’m on the side of your relationship – and make sure both of you get space. All body-based exercises are an offer, not an obligation.
No surprises. 70 minutes, in person in Letná or online.
I’ll explain how I work and how confidentiality applies. You can ask anything.
Each of you tells me, from your own perspective, what brings you here. I make sure both of you get space.
If so, we arrange further sessions – roughly the first five once a week, then less often. After a few sessions we review together whether they’re helping.
Just one of you can send the first message. But couples therapy always starts with a joint session with both partners. If your partner doesn’t want to come yet, you can start individual therapy with me. In that case, though, we won’t do couples therapy together later. This is for both your sakes: in couples therapy it matters that I’m equally close to each of you.
Who you’ll be working with
You don’t choose a therapist by diplomas, but by trust — and with a couple it has to grow in both of you. That’s why what you’ll mostly find here is me: in a short video I say who I am, what a joint session looks like and what to expect.
I go beneath the surface: it’s not only about how you argue, but why – often patterns from the families you each grew up in are at play. I combine talking with body-based work. I completed a five-year accredited training under the Czech Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy.
5 years
accredited training
70 min
session length
once a week
roughly the first 5 sessions
I know cost matters when you’re deciding — and as a couple, there are two of you deciding. That’s why it’s right here, so you can think it over at home, not in my therapy room.
— Zdeněk Nový
2 500CZK / joint session 70 minutes
Cancellations: a session can be canceled or rescheduled free of charge up to 72 hours in advance. After that it is charged in full — I can no longer offer the slot to anyone else.
It’s okay to ask. And feel free to ask anything else straight away — even in your first message.
“I don’t take either side. I’m on the side of your relationship.”
In Czech or English, in person in Letná or online.
A few words are enough – and it’s fine if just one of you sends them.
Everything you write is confidential.
