This clinic functions within the umbrella of The Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis (ACP), which was established more than 25 years ago. It operates in the clinical and scientific field created by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

Psychoanalytic session are charged on a sliding scale where some weight is given to the participant’s ability to pay.

My consulting rooms are in the inner suburb of North Carlton close to the Nicholson St tram. There is free car-parking outside. We will begin with an exploratory meeting, after which a number of introductory sessions may be held where both of us can determine the advisability of proceeding further.

Psychoanalysis involves speaking in a protected and private setting where confidentiality is assured, and troubling matters can be explored.

Psychoanalysis has grown since Freud’s time in its applications to fields other than the clinical (although always retaining conceptual and practical links with the different forms of human suffering and their treatment). As a conceptual and methodological instrument, psychoanalysis is now firmly established in the work of social sciences, philosophy and the study of artistic […]

Psychoanalysis relies on speaking in a way that reveals what is most truthful. While mental suffering is often labelled by the names of disorders such as depression or anxiety, there is a broader sense in which we are all at odds with our ourselves. It is therefore, possible to explore a psychoanalysis as a kind […]

Psychoanalysis works through talking in a way that produces truthful knowledge. This inevitably traces back to the way in which we are made up of the remnant traces of lost relationships, the experience and registration of loss. We are, in that sense, not what we eat, but what we have loved. We become what we […]

Psychoanalysis deals with a diverse spread of conditions and symptoms, including anxiety, depression, phobias, obsessive and eating disorders, sexual dysfunction and psychosomatic conditions. It is also effective in working through difficulties with family; separation; conflict at work; the effects of retirement; anxiety concerning first-time parenthood; effects of traumatic events; bereavement and existential crises. Psychoanalysis, in […]

Psychoanalysis relies on speaking in a way that reveals what is most truthful. While mental suffering is often labelled by the names of disorders such as depression or anxiety, there is a broader sense in which we are all at odds with our ourselves. It is therefore, possible to explore a psychoanalysis as a kind […]