My approach
I follow a psychoanalytic approach grounded in the teachings of Jacques Lacan. The primary aim of the work I offer my patients is to identify the knots in the distress that so often permeates our days and prevents us from making the most of our potential, from living a full life in touch with our desires. Personal suffering carries a great deal of information: my task is to help my patients decipher it, to untie these knots of pain through work with speech and the signifier. The element of surprise in psychoanalysis and the unfurling of discourse as it connects to the circuit of the drive produce therapeutic effects that can act on the deep structure of the subject, changing them permanently and allowing them to find less death-dealing ways of living and enjoying.
The teachings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) form one of the most complex and, at times, opaque theoretical edifices of the last century. From surrealism to knot theory, by way of structuralism, optical schemas and topological figures, over more than forty years of work Lacan developed a way of approaching the question of the human that returns to Freud and to the logic of the unconscious, arguing that it is structured like a language that continually impinges upon the real of the body.
Services
Psychoanalytically oriented listening differs greatly from cognitive behavioural therapy. This is not a space where practical strategies for eliminating distress are proposed or taught; instead, distress is worked through by understanding the hidden meanings it carries. Untying these knots will bring about a deep and lasting improvement in well-being.
In general, the analytic position is profoundly different from the psychotherapeutic one, in which the practitioner positions themselves as the one who knows what is best or works better for the patient. A psychoanalyst does not work with a predetermined grid of values in which some behaviours are positive and others negative, but questions what, for that particular subject, is a source of anguish, dissatisfaction or behaviours that are not in keeping with their desire.
In keeping with my approach, I do not offer work that takes place entirely online: psychoanalysis is also a matter of the body, and it needs in-person sessions at a certain frequency to function properly. I do, however, offer a hybrid way of working, combining in-person and remote sessions. Only in the case of psychedelic experience integration is it possible to agree in advance on a short course of work (up to 12 sessions).
I have gained experience in several broad areas, which you can read more about below, but I am entirely open to exploring suffering in all the forms it may temporarily take, even when it has no name within the palette of diagnostic labels.
