Empty Space

Psychoanalysis is a mode of psychotherapy that takes the unconscious into account. It invites you to speak freely, without censoring yourself or searching for the ‘right’ answer. In that free-associative speech, something of your suffering can begin to take shape, not as a problem to be solved, but as part of your unique way of relating to yourself and others. This ‘something’ often emerges in the words that repeat, the ideas that persist, and the questions you return to again and again.

Rather than providing generalised answers to these questions, psychoanalytic work involves building your own solutions to your own unique form of suffering. It can be especially useful for those caught in repetitive thoughts, behaviours, or symptoms that have not responded to other forms of help.

Treatment is typically long-term and open-ended. Sessions might involve discussion of relationships, symptoms, memories, fantasies, or dreams, but the only requirement is to say whatever comes to mind, whenever it does.

In The Question of Lay Analysis, Freud argued that you don’t need a medical degree to practice psychoanalysis, only the capacity to stay with what unsettles our stories. With that text, Freud challenged the ivory tower others had built around him, insisting that analysis belongs wherever the unconscious speaks.

This project takes up Freud’s challenge: to try and position ourselves in such a way that we can hear the unconscious speak in its own logic. We view that logic as not ours to teach, not yours to take, and it's certainly not found in the DSM.

To that end, a monthly programmes of events that can speak to something of the unconscious will begin in 2026.

While our orientation is psychoanalytic, we warmly welcome practitioners of all modalities to use our space. The more approaches we have working alongside one another, the richer our capacity becomes to hold space for difference. That alone deepens each of our commitment to the question of human suffering.