What does ‘organisational therapy’ mean?

Organisational therapy is a deep, reflective approach to working with organisations, leaders, and teams. Just as therapy helps individuals to understand hidden patterns, organisational therapy explores unconscious dynamics that shape behaviour, culture, and performance.


This is not clinical psychotherapy. We bring psychoanalytic and systems-informed thinking to support organisations and leaders in containing anxiety, surfacing unspoken dynamics, and working through systemic challenges.

This isn’t about solutions imposed from outside. It’s about insight that grows from within.

Caro Bainbridge, PhD

The Organisational Therapist

Organisations are systems of relationships…

and relationships carry emotion, conflict, and potential.

If you're here, you're likely facing questions that resist easy answers:

  • Why is our team stuck in the same pattern?

  • Why does change feel so hard, even when it’s needed?

  • How do we make space for uncertainty, complexity, and difference – without losing direction?

These aren’t problems to be fixed with a model or a checklist. They require reflection, containment, and insight.

That’s where I come in.


With over 25 years’ experience working at the intersection of psychology, leadership, and culture, I help senior leaders and organisations explore the unspoken dynamics that shape their everyday reality. My work is informed by psychoanalytic theory, systems thinking, and decades of practice – including as a Tavistock-trained organisational consultant, facilitator, and Emeritus Professor of Culture & Psychoanalysis.

I create spaces where individuals and teams can safely explore difficult questions, discover clarity, and build the emotional and strategic capacity to lead real change.

Whether you're facing complexity, conflict, or simply a sense that something deeper needs attention, I offer a grounded, thoughtful process that supports transformation – not just performance.

What I bring to our work.

  • Over 25 years’ experience

  • Fully qualified, registered coach (Association for Coaching/Eco-Leadership Institute)

  • Tavistock-trained organisational consultant (systems psychodynamics)

  • Emeritus Professor of Culture & Psychoanalysis (Roehampton University)

  • Experienced facilitator, programme designer, and speaker

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

  • Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council

  • Deep interests in:

    • strategy, communication, complexity

    • the future of work and leadership