004⎯DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

      Depression and anxiety are two well-known faces of suffering, they can manifest themselves  through different degrees of intensity, at various times. Or, on the contrary, they may permeate one’s daily life with the feeling, perhaps slight but nonetheless constant, that something is not right in the balance of happiness and satisfaction with our lives. Anxiety can make us feel that we are never enough, and that it is necessary to keep running toward what we believe to be our goals.

The psychoanalytic approach does not teach us how to control anxiety or how to defeat depressive thoughts. Instead, we must ask ourselves where this discomfort wants to take us, what it is trying to tell us. I gladly welcome patients with anxious and depressive patterns into my chair to unravel the thread of their discourse.  

      In more serious cases of anxiety and depression, I offer a service of brief counseling (4-12 sessions) in order to prepare the patient before beginning psychotherapeutic treatment.