PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN LJUBLJANA

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Who I work with

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  I work with adults who are experiencing a range of difficulties:

• anxiety, stress, fear, panic, inner conflict

• depression, loss of direction, a sense of emptiness

• difficulty in relationships, intimacy, sexuality, parenthood or family life

• questions of identity, belonging, gender and self-understanding

• creative blocks, performance anxiety, stage fright, burnout

• living between cultures, countries and languages: as an expat, a Third Culture Kid, a multilingual person, or someone going through a cultural transition

  You do not need a diagnosis, or a clear reason, to begin. It is enough that something in your life, your body, your work, or your relationships is causing distress or raising questions you would like to explore.
  An analytic treatment can bring relief from symptoms, improve quality of life, and let you make choices more freely and less weighed down by the past.

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Languages, location and practical information

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  I offer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in person in Ljubljana, as well as online for those living elsewhere in Slovenia or abroad.

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How often, and for how long

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  Sessions are typically held between once and three times per week, depending on what we agree is suitable for your situation.

  The duration of each session is variable and follows the logic of the treatment rather than the clock. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, time is measured by moments of insight, articulation, 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, not a timetable.

  Likewise, there is no fixed duration for an analysis—each path follows its own rhythm and is guided by your experience and desire, not a program decided in advance.

  Fees and practical arrangements are discussed during the initial consultation.

 

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How I Work
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  My practice is oriented by Lacanian psychoanalysis. Rather than seeking to silence symptoms quickly, I listen to what they may be saying in your life. What troubles you is not dismissed as meaningless, but it is treated 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 trying to fit your experience into a coherent narrative. 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.

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Beginning Psychoanalysis

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  If you are considering starting psychoanalysis in Ljubljana or online therapy, you are welcome to get in touch for an initial consultation. In this first meeting, you can speak about what brings you, and we can see together whether this way of working suits you.

  Email: info@iclp.si​​​​

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Training and Orientation

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  I completed my analytic training at the Sección Clínica de Madrid (NUCEP – Instituto del Campo Freudiano, ELP, AMP-WAP), where in 2023 I obtained the Certificate of Clinical Studies with the final dissertation on the voice as object a.

  I remain actively involved in the contemporary Lacanian field through the New Lacanian School (NLS) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP-WAP). I am Delegate of the Bureau of Das Freudsche Ding – Austria, an affiliated group of the NLS, and was a member of Espace Jeunesse of the NLS Vienna Initiative.

  Some of my theoretical writings have been published in the journal Punto de Fuga.

 

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Working with Creative Professionals and Expats

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  In parallel with my psychoanalytic practice, I maintain an international performing career as a musician. I am a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and was solo clarinetist of Ensemble MidtVest in Denmark for fourteen years, appearing on more than twenty-five albums.

  I co-founded and co-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 work in relation to creativity, performance, vulnerability, discipline, and the body on stage. For people whose life turns on creative work, the analytic setting can have a particular resonance.

  As a long-time multilingual expat, I am also close to the difficulties of TCKs, expats and multilingual people dealing with identity, belonging and cultural transition.

 

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Teaching and Public Engagement

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  Besides clinical work, I teach Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and sit on the Scientific Committee of OMANUT in Rome, a three-year school of professional art counselling.

I give masterclasses and lectures at institutions including the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, the Royal Danish Academy, the State University of New York and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, on subjects such as the interpretation of a text and the body on stage: questions that belong as much to the performing arts as to psychoanalytic work.

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More about moving and emigrating​

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  Relocation is often described as a fresh start. It is more often a confrontation: with what you wanted, with what you avoided, and with what keeps returning whatever your address.

  In this interview for Live in Slovenia I talk about how psychoanalysis offers a place to meet the puzzles of desire, and why we are never quite at home in ourselves:

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When Moving Countries Reveals What We Really Want: A Psychoanalyst’s Perspective