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TOMMASO LONQUICH
Psychoanalyst & Psychotherapist
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English, Italian and Spanish,
in person and remotely
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Member of the Association of Psychotherapists of Slovenia (ZPS)
and the Danish Association of Psychotherapists

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
At times life reaches a point where something no longer holds together: anxiety becomes persistent, relationships feel strained, creativity dries up, or a quiet unease begins to insist. For some, this is related to work and performance; for others, to intimacy, identity, or the tension of living between languages and cultures.
Psychoanalysis offers a space to speak about what troubles you without pressure to fit into a diagnosis or a ready-made explanation. It is a place to follow what emerges in your own words, and to discover what is truly at stake for you.
"A psychoanalysis consists in speaking freely, in not hushing the ideas that go through your head.
Little by little, from within your own words, another meaning forms and surprises you,
then falls apart, taking the pain with it.
Usually, you discover just how conditioned you have been by apparently minute elements
encountered in hazardous circumstances: things from childhood, meetings, certain words said to you,
and we keep coming back to them until the malevolent charge of these elements softens."
Jacques-Alain Miller

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN LJUBLJANA
Who Can Benefit
I work with adults facing a range of challenges:
• Anxiety, stress, fear, panic, or inner conflict
• Depression, loss of direction, or a sense of emptiness
• Difficulty in relationships, intimacy, sexuality, parenthood, or family life
• Questions of identity, belonging, gender, and self-understanding
• Creative block, performance anxiety, stage fright, or burnout
• The experience of living between cultures, countries, and languages—whether as an expat, Third Culture Kid (TCK), multilingual person, or someone navigating culture shock and transition
You do not need a diagnosis or a perfectly clear reason to begin. It is enough that something in your life, body, work, or relationships is causing suffering or raising questions that you wish to address.
A successful psychoanalysis can bring about crucial relief from symptoms, improve quality of life, and empower you to make choices with increased freedom, unburdened by the past.
Languages, Location and Practical Information
I offer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in English, Italian, and Spanish, in person in Ljubljana, and online for people living elsewhere in Slovenia or abroad.
Session frequency and timing
Sessions are typically scheduled once to three times per week, depending on what we agree is suitable for your situation.
Each session’s duration is variable and follows the logic of the treatment, not the clock. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, time is measured by moments of insight, speech, or emotional emergence. A session may end when something is articulated that opens a new understanding or allows the unconscious to continue working. This ensures the analytic work respects the rhythm of your speech and your experience.
Likewise, there is no fixed duration for an analysis—each path follows its own rhythm and is guided by your experience and desire, not by an external program.
Fees and practical arrangements are discussed during the initial consultation.
How I Work
My practice is oriented by Lacanian psychoanalysis. Rather than silencing symptoms quickly, I listen to what they may be saying in your life. What troubles you is not dismissed as meaningless, but as something that carries a message, even if it is difficult to grasp at first.
In sessions, you are invited to speak freely, without censoring yourself or fitting into a fixed story. Hesitations, contradictions, memories, dreams, and unexpected associations are welcome.
Over time, new meanings emerge from your own words, and your relation to anxiety, loss, repetition, or conflict may shift from within—not through advice or techniques, but through your own experience.
Beginning Psychoanalysis
If you are considering starting psychoanalysis in Ljubljana or online therapy, you are welcome to contact me for a first consultation. In this initial meeting, you can speak about what brings you, and we can see together whether this way of working is suitable for you.
Email: info@iclp.si
Training and Orientation
I completed my analytic training at the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis in Madrid, obtaining the Certificate of Clinical Studies with a dissertation on the evolution of the concept of the object a in Lacan’s teaching.
I remain actively involved in the contemporary Lacanian field through participation in the New Lacanian School (NLS) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP-WAP). I am a member of Espace Jeunesse Vienna and serve as Delegate of the Bureau of the NLS Vienna Initiative.
Some of my theoretical writings have been published in the journal Punto de Fuga.
Working with Creative Professionals and Expats
In parallel with my psychoanalytic practice, I perform internationally as a musician. I am a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and was principal clarinetist of Ensemble MidtVest in Denmark for fourteen years, appearing on more than twenty-five albums.
I founded and direct Schackenborg Musikfest, a summer festival at Schackenborg Castle in Denmark, and previously led KantorAtelier in Florence, a cultural association dedicated to the encounter between music, theatre, and psyche.
This dual experience in music and psychoanalysis informs my practice in relation to creativity, performance, vulnerability, discipline, and the body on stage. For clients for whom creativity is central to life, the analytic setting can resonate in a unique way.
As a long-time multilingual expat, I am also sensitive to the difficulties faced by TCKs, expats, and multilingual individuals navigating identity, belonging, and cultural transitions.
Teaching and Public Engagement
Alongside clinical work, I teach Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and serve on the Scientific Committee of OMANUT in Rome, a three-year school of professional art counseling.
I give masterclasses and lectures at institutions including the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Royal Danish Academy, State University of New York, and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, on themes like text interpretation and the body on stage—questions central to both performing arts and the psychoanalytic setting.

TRAINING
- 2010-2011 'Tetrada' Studies - Sección Clínica de Madrid (Instituto del Campo Freudiano, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2010-2011 Seminar of the Freudian Field - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2010-2011 Research Group 'Art and Psychoanalysis' (ELP Madrid)
- 2012-2019 Private studies
- 2020-2023 'Tetrada' Studies - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2020-2023 Seminar of the Freudian Field - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2020-2022 Department of Studies 'Psychoanalysis with children' - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2020-2023 Department of Studies 'Psychopathology' - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2020-2021 Yearly Course in Psychoanalytic Training 'The Psychoses, regarding Seminaire III' (Enlazo, Madrid)
- 2021-2022 Yearly Course in Psychoanalytic Training 'The Direction of the Cure' (Enlazo, Madrid)
- 2022 Monographic Course 'The Phobias according to Lacan' (Apertura Psicoanalisis, Barcelona)
- 2022 Summer School of Esthetics and Psychoanalysis 'The vertigo of creation' (SKIA - Milano, Italy)
- 2022-2023 Yearly Course of Psychoanalytic Training 'The Construction of a Case' (Enlazo, Madrid)
- 2023 Certificate of Assistance & Participation - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2023 Certificate of Clinical Studies - Sección Clínica de Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
- 2025-present Delegate of the Bureau of the New Lacanian School Vienna Initiative (English in the Initiative)
- 2025 Member of the English Bibliography Team for the NLS Congress 2025
- 2024-present Member of the Scientific Committee of OMANUT Rome - School of Art Counseling
- 2024-present Member of the Espace Jeunesse of the New Lacanian School Vienna Initiative
- 2024-present Member of Study Cartels in preparations for NLS Congresses
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES
- 2011 IX Jornadas de la ELP: 'Men and their semblants' Madrid (ICF, ELP, AMP-WAP)
- 2023 XXI Congress of the New Lacanian School 'Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation' (NLS, AMP-WAP)
- 2024 XIV Congress of the World Association of Pyschoanalysis 'Tout le monde est fou' (AMP-WAP)
- 2024 XXII Congress of the New Lacanian School 'Clinic of the Gaze' (NLS, AMP-WAP)
- 2025 XXIII Congress of the New Lacanian School 'Painful Loves' (NLS, AMP-WAP)
PUBLISHED WORK
- On Punto de Fuga, Magazine of the Sección Clínica de Madrid (Instituto del Campo Freudiano, ELP, AMP-WAP):
- The sacrificial voices of Jouis-Sense - The Castrato and the Shofar (2022)
- The universe is made up of the networks of kisses - Reflections on time and the subject, between contemporary physics and psychoanalysis (2023)
- Final Dissertation for the Certificate of Clinical Studies: From whence cometh the voice - The voice as object a (2024)
STUDIES IN OTHER FIELDS
- 2024 Master of Musical Arts, Summa Cum Laude, University of Ljubljana Academy of Music (Slovenia)
- 2002-2006 Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance, University of Maryland (USA)
- 2002-2006 Studies in Economics, University of Maryland (USA)



