Approach
My practice is informed by an interest in how people exchange truth for meanings that feel livable. My writing attends to psychic functions such as interest, illusion, absurdity, and recognition, through which everyday life and culture, including analytic work itself, are organised.
The emphasis is less on explanation than on responsibility for what words and ideas set in motion in desire.
In practice, this means working with effects rather than intentions: how certain formulations relieve tension too quickly, how others keep something alive at the cost of comfort, and how speaking can function as an intervention.
Method
How I think about the work
I treat psychological life as something organised in relationships, language, and repetition, not simply inside an individual mind. What matters is often less “what happened” than how experience is held, defended against, and recreated in the present.
Change tends to arrive indirectly: not through persuasion, but through shifts in how experience can be borne, thought about, and related to. I am cautious about premature certainty, including my own.
Orientation
My training and clinical orientation sit within contemporary psychoanalysis, with a post-Bionian field perspective as a central reference point. I work with the analytic situation as a jointly constituted field, where meaning is not treated as a private possession of either participant but as something that forms and shifts within the relationship and its frame.
This informs a way of working that is attentive to what emerges in the analytic situation as a whole, not only to individual history or symptom reduction.
What I mean by listening
Neutrality, authority, and the question of change
I take seriously the way meaning forms between two people over time, including the pressure to make things clear, correct, or quickly resolved.
I use my own responses as part of the instrument of listening, while treating them as material to be examined rather than acted out. Interpretation, when it is used, is not delivered as explanation but offered as a proposition whose effects matter more than its elegance.
I aim for steadiness rather than performance. Neutrality, as I understand it, is not emotional absence but a discipline of not recruiting the patient into my needs, theories, or preferred outcomes.
Authority in this work is mostly the authority of the frame: regularity, attention, and responsibility for consequences. I do not try to motivate, coach, or lead.
Limits of the work
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is not the right tool for every situation. It tends to suit people who can tolerate an exploratory process and who are able to meet regularly. If you need rapid symptom management, structured behavioural programs, or urgent stabilisation, other approaches may be more appropriate.
I do not provide crisis services. If there is significant risk or acute instability, the first priority is safety and appropriate local support.
A note on writing and public work
My writing is not intended as self-help content or a substitute for psychotherapy.