Juan Korkie

Juan Korkie is a Clinical Psychologist with more than two decades of experience working with individuals, couples, and families across South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. He works primarily with relational distress that has become repetitive, entrenched, or difficult to shift through insight alone.

His work is grounded in systemic and constructivist thinking, informed by neurobiological perspectives, and integrated into a practice-based approach focused on interaction. He is interested in how relationships organise themselves under pressure, how patterns form and repeat, and how these patterns shape what partners experience with each other over time.

He has led clinical services, supervised multidisciplinary teams, and trained practitioners, with a focus on approaches that prioritise structure, intensity, and depth in relational work.

His approach developed through sustained engagement with couples for whom traditional methods had stalled. His writing and teaching focus on making the structure of relationships visible in real time, the recurring patterns that shape how partners speak, react, protect themselves, and miss each other. He is concerned with bridging clinical theory and lived experience, translating complex ideas into work that is direct, usable, and grounded in what actually happens between people.