Qualifications and Memberships
- Member of the London Society of the New Lacanian School, the NLS and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP)
- Attended the Seminar and Training Programme in Lacanian Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research from 2007-2015
- MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (Birkbeck, University of London)
- PgDip in Psychodynamic Counselling (Birkbeck, University of London)
- MA in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society (Brunel University, London)
- Training in Bereavement Counselling (CELBS, Bart's and the London NHS Trust)
- BSc(Hons)in Psychology (Deree, The American College of Greece)
I am an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and abide by the BACP ethical framework for counselling and psychotherapy.
Clinical experience
I have 15 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings including working for the NHS, psychotherapy services, universities and three nation-wide employee assistance programmes. Apart from private practice, I currently work with the Priory Harley Street as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, seeing people in the community who present with a variety of issues, ranging from mild to more chronic and severe difficulties. I also work with employees, some of who have encountered traumatic experiences at work while on the front -line (police, fire service, ambulance service etc) but also dealing with burnout and other more complex work-related (and not only) issues that have made their ability to function at work suffer.
I have worked for many years as a bereavement counsellor within the Bart's and the London NHS Trust, as a psychotherapist at the Department of Psychological Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and as a psychotherapist at the Outpatient Eating Disorders Unit at Springfield University Hospital. I have also worked as a Counsellor and mental health mentor (2011-2018) in several London universities including Goldsmiths (Goldsmiths Wellbeing Project), supporting students whose mental health and learning difficulties have been holding them back from managing the demands of study.
Between 2016 and 2019, I was a member of a small team of psychoanalysts running "Bubble and Speak", a drop-in in South London where we welcomed pregnant mothers, parents and carers with their small children in a space where we listened to both child and adult whilst they were interacting with other children and their parents. Finally, I participate actively in all the activities of the London Society of the New Lacanian School including its clinical and theoretical seminars and served as a member of the Editorial Comittee of Psychoanalytical Notebooks, Secretary and Cartels' Delegate between 2022-2025.
Presentations:
- December 2024: Clinical Presentation at Knottings Seminar, London Society of the NLS.
- May 2024: “A Weight without Consistency” presentation at simultaneous sessions at the NLS Congress 2024: “Clinic of the Gaze”.
- May 2023: Black and White Photographies, presentation at simultaneous sessions at the NLS Congress 2023: “Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation”.
- March 2023: The plus-one and the experience of the 'bar’ in the cartel, paper presented at the NLS Cartel Event “Rendez-Vous with (my) Plus-One”.
- March 2023: “To build my own...”, presentation at the Clinical Conversation Series, London Society of the NLS.
- February 2023: Case presentation for the event: “Sexual Identities in Transit: A Contemporary Question”.
- June 2022: The Concept of Repetition in J-A Miller’s Seminar ‘Being and the One’, presentation, London Society seminar series “The Castration Complex, Fixation and Repetition”.
- January 2022: “The White Shadow”, clinical case presented at the Clinical Conversation Series, London Society of the NLS.
- December 2021: What Cannot be Traversed is Jouissance, paper presented at Reading Seminar of “Being and the One” by J-A Miller, LS.
- December 2020: Three Distinctions in chapters 4 to 6 of the Analysts’ Banquet, paper presented at reading seminar “The Banquet of the Analysts” by J-A Miller.
- January 2020: Subject, Society, School, paper presented at study day with Alexandre Stevens at the London Society of the NLS.
- October 2019: Uses of the Dream in Lacanian Practice, paper presented at “The Dream: Interpretation and Use: A research Seminar towards the WAP Congress”, London Society of the NLS.
- May 2018: Exits and Gaps in Mass Psychology, paper presented at event on Mass Psychology, London Society of the NLS: Laboratory of Lacanian Politics.
Recent Publications:
- "Supervision: a Subjective Effect", Dossier Blog AMP, “Under Control, Volume 12, December 2019 : https://www.uqbarwapol.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Dossier_Blog_AMP_n02.pdf
- "The Feeling of Life", Psychoanalytical Notebooks, ‘The Other,The One’, No 37/38: Autumn/Winter 2021
- "The Cartel: Anti-didactic Device, a space for Debated Orientation", Psychoanalytical Notebooks, ‘In existence’, No 39, Spring 2022.
- "Why Now?", Psychoanalytical Notebooks, ‘aNormality’, Issue 41 Spring 2024.
- "Destinies of Transference", Psychoanalytical Notebooks, ‘The Point of Anxiety’, No 42, Autumn 2024
