I decided to become a psychoanalyst after I recognized that something is often missed in clinical mental health services offered to those suffering and looking for help. So I found a psychoanalyst to speak with and began my own journey. Psychoanalysis is unique in that, to be a psychoanalyst, one must spend time in analysis and bear the experience of encountering one’s own lack. Something of the painful questioning that brings a person to the consulting room, must also be part of the analyst’s story.