Lacanian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Lacanian psychoanalytic therapy is a deeper, longer-term form of work for people who want to understand themselves at a fundamental level — not just to manage symptoms, but to change something about how they experience life, relationships, and themselves. My training is in Lacanian psychoanalysis — the tradition developed by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, which places particular emphasis on language, speech, and the structure of the unconscious. Lacanian work attends closely to what is said and what cannot be said, to desire, to repetition, and to the ways we are shaped by forces we do not fully recognise.
In Lacanian psychoanalytic therapy we explore unconscious patterns — the ways of thinking, feeling, and relating that operate below awareness and shape our choices and experiences. We pay close attention to dreams, to slips of the tongue, to the texture of the therapeutic relationship itself, to what is difficult to say, and to what gets repeated. Lacan understood the unconscious as structured like a language, and this orientation shapes the way I listen and the way we work together. Gradually, often slowly, this work creates space for lasting internal transformation rather than surface-level change.
This kind of therapy typically involves meeting more than once a week — often two or three times — which allows the work to deepen and sustain momentum. It suits people who are drawn to understanding themselves at a deeper level, who have a capacity for reflection and tolerate ambiguity, and who are willing to make a sustained commitment to the process. Fees are negotiable and we can discuss arrangements that make it viable for you.
Common questions
Is psychoanalytic therapy the same as psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis in its classical form involves meeting four or five times per week, often using the couch. My training is specifically in Lacanian psychoanalysis, which differs from other psychoanalytic traditions in its emphasis on language, speech, and the structure of the unconscious. Lacanian psychoanalytic psychotherapy draws on these principles but is more flexible — meeting once, twice, or three times a week, face to face. It’s more accessible while still allowing for in-depth exploratory work.
Who is psychoanalytic therapy suited to?
It suits people who feel there's something they keep running into — in relationships, in how they feel about themselves, in patterns they can't seem to break — and who want to understand the roots of it rather than just manage the surface. It's also well suited to people curious about their inner life: dreams, imagination, the unconscious.