Lesya Kutsenko

I practise psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Freudian–Lacanian orientation, and I also offer counselling. The work rests on speaking. Unconscious processes shape a life, and they show up as something that insists, repeats, or resists, even when change is what you came for. In the session I do not set the pace or the direction in advance. We follow free association. What returns in your speech is the material.

The first step is an introductory call of 15 minutes, online by video. If we continue, an individual session is 50 minutes, also online. You begin with a plot that has not taken shape yet, sometimes only a sketch, and feelings may arrive before the main figures do. Gradually you find the main characters of your story, and whoever is speaking, they speak in your voice. The only tools are word, voice and gaze.

I see individuals and couples. I see children, preteens, teens, adults and elders. Adults come for what repeats or stays unspoken in a relationship, at work, or in identity, and for self-esteem and life transitions. With adults and adolescents I also work with unhappiness, tension, anxiety, fears, fatigue, irritability, difficulty in relationships, low self-esteem and phobias. With children I work with adjustment in a new group, aggression or withdrawal, school difficulties and phobias.

I bring psychoanalytic training completed at the International Institute of Depth Psychology in Ukraine. I am actively involved in teaching, and my clinical work has been published in texte psychoanalyse ästhetik kulturkritik.