“Listening is the place where sensitivity encounters meaning.” ADF
It is within this space between word and silence, between the visible and the invisible, that my clinical practice is guided.
Clinical approach
My clinical approach is grounded in classical psychoanalysis, in dialogue with humanistic and existential perspectives, recognizing that psychic constitution does not take shape solely within the individual, but also through encounters with the world, culture, language, and history. Psychological suffering often emerges in this in-between space, when lived experience can no longer find words, images, or spaces of containment.
Clinical work is oriented by listening as an ethical act and as a gesture of openness to the unknown. In this context, to listen does not mean to fit experience into pre-existing categories, but to sustain a space in which the individual may exist beyond the labels that have already captured them.
This work benefits from a transversal perspective, enriched by engagement with multicultural authors, narratives, and ways of thinking. Such crossings broaden listening and allow recognition that there is not a single way of existing, desiring, or attributing meaning to life.
The plurality of references does not fragment clinical practice; on the contrary, it offers density and context to the singularity of each person.
Particular attention is given to psychic hiding places, inner territories to which individuals retreat in order to protect themselves, survive, or preserve something of who they are in the face of overwhelming, traumatic, or non-symbolized experiences. These spaces are not understood as failures to be corrected, but as possible responses to life. Clinical work is constructed as a safe environment where such territories can gradually be recognized, named, and, if desired, transformed.
Listening, when sustained with rigor and sensitivity, becomes a space in which identity and meaning can be slowly and processually constructed, not as fixed truths, but as movements in continuous elaboration.
The analytic process unfolds in each person’s own time. There are no imposed goals or promises of rapid adaptation. Instead, a field of listening is sustained where words, silence, affect, and imagery may circulate, fostering elaboration and the creation of new meanings.
Clinical practice is not concerned only with pain, but also with that which insists on living. To work with the human condition is to recognize its complexity, contradictions, unanswered questions, and its capacity for reinvention.