In this short video, I explain how I plan a weekend of in-person sessions at my practice, and how we carry the work on by video once you are home.
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Weekend psychotherapy in Copenhagen helps you do focused work in person when weekdays are taken by your job, your children or a long commute. You travel to my practice in central Copenhagen, and we hold several 1-hour sessions in English across a Saturday and Sunday, with breaks between them.
I help you use the weekend with a clear aim: we agree beforehand what it is for, I watch the pace closely and we plan what happens afterwards, often follow-up by video. This page sits under psychotherapy for people living abroad and my online psychotherapy. For a longer stay, see fly-in psychotherapy in Copenhagen.
You can book a free 30-minute call to plan your weekend, reserve your sessions, read my client policy or ask me about dates.
Weekend psychotherapy in Copenhagen is for English-speaking adults who can reach Copenhagen for a weekend and want to work with me face to face. Your weekdays leave no room for therapy, and you want a protected stretch of time, in person, to look at something that has waited too long.
A weekend in Copenhagen is a planned, in-person format. If one of these describes you better, the linked page will serve you better.
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These reviews describe clients’ experiences of working with me. They come from my wider practice and do not all relate to online sessions. Each person’s experience is their own, and a review does not promise a particular outcome.
“Since my first client in 2004, I have seen that the hardest part of a weekend of therapy is not the sessions. It is the Monday after. People arrive braced to be cracked open, and I think that is the wrong expectation. A good weekend is calm and deliberate. Underneath, one voice often asks ‘Will you still be there for me once I go home?’, another insists ‘Let me take this away and think about it alone’, and sometimes a third says both in one breath: ‘Stay close to this with me, but let me leave when I need to.’ I plan the weekend so each of those voices is respected, and so you travel home steadier than you came.”
Mark Colclough, MA, psychotherapist and EFT couples therapist
I am Mark Colclough, MA. I have practised since 2004 and offer online psychotherapy and couples therapy in English.
My training brings together your emotions, your thoughts and your relationships. My deep passion is the moment when what happens between you finally makes sense, to each of you and to each other. I have lived and worked in nine countries, so I know something of life across languages, cultures and borders.
Read about my background, or explore online psychotherapy and online couples therapy.
I meet regularly with experienced psychotherapists to reflect on my work, question my understanding and develop my skills. Supervision is part of the professional care I bring to individual and couples work, including online sessions.
My focus is thoughtful practice, integrity and responsibility.
You are welcome to ask about the kind of support you need.
Tell me where you are based and your time zone. We can then consider whether online sessions together are suitable.
Helena is 38, a Finnish lawyer working in Hamburg, with 2 small children and a husband who travels for work. Weekday evenings vanish into homework and email. Since her father died last spring she has felt flat and short-tempered, and she cries in the car where nobody can see. Video therapy at home feels impossible, because the walls are thin and the children wake easily.
I would plan a weekend that begins gently on the Saturday morning, with time to walk between sessions. In the first session we would look at what she has had to hold together since the funeral, and Helena would probably notice how little room grief has had in a life organised around everyone else.
I have presented this clinical example as a compound of 22 years of clinical practice.
You have waited for a quieter month to start therapy, and that month has never come.
There is no ideal moment and no required reason to begin. A persistent feeling that something is wrong, that you are coping rather than living, or that your relationships are not as you want them is enough. You do not need a diagnosis or a polished account of the problem. In 22 years of practice I have come to recognise when a pattern needs focused, protected time, and when weekly fragments would only keep it simmering.
In sessions I usually begin by finding the centre of the difficulty, then what keeps it alive and what has to change. These 6 questions can help you decide whether a weekend in Copenhagen is the right way in.
If so, take that seriously rather than blaming yourself. Work, school runs, commuting and calls with family abroad fill every slot. By the time the house is quiet, you are too tired to talk about anything that matters, so the problem waits for another week.
I would look at whether this is a busy season or a way of life that keeps your own needs permanently last. A weekend can break that pattern by giving the work time that nothing else can claim. Book a session with me and we can find a weekend that works.
Both feelings make sense, because they protect different needs. One part of you wants to be seen fully, by a real person in a real room. Another part prefers the safety of a screen you can close, or of not starting at all.
I do not treat the hesitant part as cowardice. It has often kept you safe from being misunderstood. Over the weekend I help you hear what each side needs, so that you can go at a pace that respects both and still say what you came to say.
When you are always the one organising, it is easy to wonder who would notice if you stopped. A partner’s distracted reply or a friend’s cancelled plan can feel like confirmation. You replay it, seek small signs of care and struggle to settle until you get one.
Wanting to matter is not needy, and I will not treat it that way. I help you quiet the alarm that fires before there is any real evidence, and find ways to ask for care directly. A weekend gives that fear time to be explored without a clock running out after 50 minutes.
This can be confusing for you and for those who love you. You miss your partner when they travel, then feel crowded within an hour of their return. You invite a friend over and spend the evening wishing to be alone.
I help you slow this swing down and find the moment the wish for contact turns into a wish to get away. Often it is a sense of being responsible for someone else’s mood. Over 2 days we can follow it closely. I have compassion for the reflex, and I will ask you to take responsibility for the hurt it causes.
Many capable people handle pressure by becoming efficient. Someone needs something emotional from you and you offer a solution, change the subject or tidy the kitchen. It works in the moment, but it can leave others feeling shut out and leave you alone with what you feel.
My view is that needing space is legitimate and nothing to apologise for. I help you understand what the distance protects you from and how to stay present without feeling overwhelmed. You learn to name a limit early, before you disappear behind tasks.
Years of being the reliable one, at work and at home, can blur your sense of self. You know what everyone else needs from you, but ask yourself what you want and the answer goes blank. That does not mean something is wrong with you. It tells me how long you have been bending yourself to fit.
A weekend away from your usual roles gives this question space. I offer direction and honest challenge, but I will not decide who you should be. The aim is a clearer picture of what matters to you and what kind of life and relationships fit.
If this sounds like you, book a free call to talk through dates and practicalities, or reserve your weekend sessions straight away.
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Understanding yourself better over a weekend matters, but it has to change what you do on Monday morning, too.
A weekend with me will help you see what is going on, recognise what keeps it in place and leave with changes you can begin at home. Insight that stays in the therapy room fades within days, and I plan the weekend so that it does not.
In 22 years of practice I have found that concentrated in-person work needs an active, structured therapist. I will guide you, name what I see and challenge you where it helps, rather than only listen. These 6 questions show what we work towards.
Related reading: Is online therapy as good as seeing someone in person? and How should I prepare for my first therapy session?.
Over the first sessions, I help you separate the core problem from its symptoms and side effects. The irritability, the tiredness or the late-night worrying are real, but often they are results. Beneath them lie feelings, beliefs and old ways of protecting yourself.
I tell you plainly what I think is happening and what deserves attention first, and I question explanations that keep you stuck. To begin, book a session with me and tell me briefly what you want to bring.
By learning its early signs. Most reactions follow a chain: a sinking feeling, a familiar thought, a tightening in the shoulders, an urge to withdraw or to fix. Seeing the first link gives you a moment in which to choose something else.
Over a weekend we can trace that chain in detail on Saturday and try a different response on Sunday. Seeing is only the start. I help you rehearse the new response so that it is ready when the old trigger arrives at home on a Tuesday evening.
Calming yourself does not mean shutting feelings down or looking composed. It means staying present enough to understand what is happening and decide what to do. Strong feelings may come up over a weekend, and that is not a sign of failure.
I watch for rising strain, slow down when needed and use the breaks well. You will learn simple ways to notice your body’s signals earlier. At home, practising them for a few minutes each day is your part, and it matters.
Asking clearly starts with knowing what you feel and what is yours to carry. Fear of conflict, guilt or years of saved-up resentment can make that hard, so you either say nothing or say it too sharply.
I help you find words that fit the size of the moment. I challenge you when you go silent to keep the peace, and when you make others responsible for your feelings. On a weekend we can prepare a conversation you will have once you are home.
Clarity comes when you separate fear, obligation and other people’s wishes from what you know and value. A weekend away from daily noise often makes that easier.
I help you weigh each option and what it would demand from you. I will give you my professional view and point out when you are avoiding the choice, but the decision stays with you. You leave knowing what you think, even if you still need time to act.
Change has to reach your ordinary week: how you protect time for yourself, how you handle conflict, what you say yes and no to. You may need new routines, firmer limits or a different arrangement at home.
Together we sort out which parts of your week must change and which are fine as they are. Your reliability and care for others are strengths, not faults. The goal is a life where your choices answer to your values, not only to everyone else’s needs.
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You do not need a diagnosis, a neat history or the right words before you arrive. We begin with what is pressing now.
Before the weekend, we agree what it is for. When you arrive, I listen carefully, help you name the central difficulty and give the sessions a clear direction. You do not need to tell me everything before useful work can start.
The weekend can be the start of longer work. Afterwards, online psychotherapy lets us continue my structured individual work by video from wherever you live. If the problem lies between you and your partner and both of you are willing, online couples therapy offers long-term relational development and healing. Since a weekend always means several sessions, a therapy bundle gives you savings and a plan agreed in advance.
I begin by asking what brought you to Copenhagen, what is most difficult now, what you have tried and what you want to be different. We confirm the plan for the rest of the weekend together.
By the end of that first session you will have my initial understanding and a direction for the sessions that follow. That gives you a fair basis for judging whether my style is useful to you. If you would like to talk first, book a free 30-minute call before you travel.
Individual work is right when the focus is your emotions, history, decisions or the way you cope. Your relationships can be explored in depth while only the two of us are present.
I provide continuity and honest challenge from one session to the next. If you later want regular work, online psychotherapy describes my structured individual work by video.
Choose couples work when your relationship is what needs ongoing attention. If the same arguments return, if trust has broken or if one of you pushes while the other withdraws, both of you usually need to be part of the work.
In couples sessions I help you see the cycle between you and build safer ways of being together. Online couples therapy is long-term relational development and healing, and it can follow from individual work.
That depends on what we are working on and how much you can take in. Some people do 2 sessions on Saturday and 2 on Sunday, others prefer fewer with longer breaks.
I recommend a shape in advance and adjust it as we go. If the pace stops being useful, I slow down or shorten the day. After the weekend, we decide whether to continue by video, plan another weekend or stop.
A bundle makes sense when you know the work needs several sessions and you want continuity without deciding after each one. A weekend always involves several sessions, so it usually applies.
Paying for the weekend as a bundle lowers the cost per session and settles the structure before you travel. See therapy discounts and bundles, and I will help you choose the size that fits.
The work is complete when you have more clarity and choice, and the difficulty has shifted enough for you to manage without the same support. Sometimes a single weekend does that. Sometimes it opens work that continues.
I review progress openly and do not encourage therapy without an end. We may continue by video, plan another weekend or stop. Returning later with a new difficulty is part of life, not proof that the weekend failed.
Not sure a weekend in Copenhagen is right for you? Here is how it compares with nearby options.
| Option | Choose it when | Pace |
|---|---|---|
| Weekend psychotherapy in Copenhagen (this page) | You can reach Copenhagen for a weekend and want to work in person. | Several 1-hour sessions over Saturday and Sunday |
| Fly-in psychotherapy in Copenhagen | You are travelling further and want to stay for several days of work. | A planned stay of several days in person |
| Back-to-back psychotherapy, living abroad | You want concentrated work but cannot travel. | Several 1-hour video sessions within days |
| Psychotherapy for people living abroad | You can keep a regular hour and want steady work over months. | Weekly or fortnightly video sessions |
It is individual psychotherapy in person, in English, held as several 1-hour sessions across a weekend at my practice in central Copenhagen. It is designed for adults who can travel to Copenhagen and whose weekdays leave no room for therapy.
I plan the weekend around a clear aim, with breaks and careful attention to pace, and we often continue by video afterwards. It sits within psychotherapy for people living abroad.
It makes sense when something has needed attention for a long time and weekly therapy has never fitted your life, or when you want to begin in person before continuing online.
I look at what you want to change and whether a weekend can give it enough time. If another format would help you more, I will tell you.
Often, yes, though not as a quick fix. A weekend can give you a clear understanding of what is happening and a first change to practise. Deeper patterns usually need further work afterwards.
In my clinical experience, people often find that the protected time itself is what has been missing. With no rush and no interruptions, they say things they have never said aloud.
Then we slow down. I plan breaks between sessions and watch how you are doing throughout. Feeling moved is normal, and being flooded is a sign to change the pace.
I can shorten a day, move a session or change the focus. The weekend is there to help you, not to test how much you can bear.
Many people move between seeking contact and needing distance. Both are ways of trying to feel safe, and each makes sense given how you learned to cope.
I help you see which moves you make under pressure, what each one is protecting and what it costs others. Then we practise steadier options, like asking for closeness clearly and taking space without disappearing.
You do not need to prepare much. It helps to think about what you most want to change, and to keep the evenings free rather than booking dinners or work calls.
Plan a calm journey and some time to rest after the last session. You do not need perfect words. If you have questions, book a free 30-minute call first, or reserve your weekend now.
Some people find a single weekend enough to get unstuck. Others use it as the start of longer work, by video or with another weekend later.
I give you my honest recommendation at the end of the weekend, based on 22 years of practice, and we review it together. Nothing continues just because it has started.
Yes, and many people do. Video sessions after a weekend keep the thread and fit around your home life, at a time that suits your time zone.
For video work you need a private space, headphones, a stable connection and a laptop or tablet. If home is too crowded, a parked car or a booked room at work can be enough. The booking calendar shows times in your local time zone, and you can talk it through on a free call.
Individual psychotherapy is booked as 1-hour sessions with 50 minutes of therapy, so a weekend is several of these. You can see the current fees, in US dollars, on my prices page. Travel and accommodation are your own to arrange.
A therapy bundle saves you 10 per cent and gives the weekend a structure agreed in advance. The options are on therapy discounts and bundles.
Book your sessions in the calendar, or request a free 30-minute call to plan the weekend with me first.
If the weekend you want is not showing, contact me with your dates. If something has happened that cannot wait for a planned weekend, I hold some room for acute cases, described on acute psychotherapy, living abroad. Choose your weekend, and we will plan it together.
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I want therapy to help you understand your experience and make choices you can use in everyday life. We pay attention to feelings, needs and the responses that happen before you have time to think.
Our online room should offer enough trust and honesty to explore what is difficult. I bring attention and professional judgement. You bring your experience, questions and the right to say when something does not fit.
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