I am an Existential & Psychoanalytic oriented psychotherapist based in Fitzroy North, Melbourne. With a deep and enduring interest in ‘existence’, I am drawn to discourses that fundamentally concern what it is ‘to be’ and issues that lay therein. This has led to a long-term engagement with existential literature and its application to therapy; and more recently, Lacanian psychoanalysis, including seminars in Paris, France, a research position with the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, and ongoing psychoanalytic study in Melbourne.
I work with individuals to bring speech to their suffering - to take account of and explore hitherto uncovered aspects of themselves. Through this process, we find relief from existential malaise, anxiety, and the multitude of symptoms that blanket our being-in-the-world with unnecessary weight. Ultimately creative, the process leads to the transformation of overdetermined issues into a spaciousness particular to each individual; facilitating the circumscribing of their particular desire in the service of living more freely.
What is psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis provides a process by which one may speak of how they find themselves unwell or in distress. By analysing individuals suffering, the unconscious conflicts that are the driving force of its maintenance are able to come to light. This process may include dreams and fantasy life whereby we come to understand the particular unconscious processes and how they function in relation to desire. Such facilitation leads to the relief of repressed material and a future marked with creativity and change.
What is existential psychotherapy?
Existential psychotherapy is foremost concerned with the understanding of our position in the world and the clarification of what it means to be, or rather, exist. And further, how this permeates our everyday dealings with the world and others. This approach offers an open and judgement free space to explore the otherwise concealed aspects of the reality of living, and how we may wrestle with life’s bigger questions.
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