Dorotea Pospihalj

I practice Lacanian psychoanalysis—which means I do not diagnose, pathologize, or try to return you to a "healthy normal." Your symptoms are not mistakes to be eliminated; they are your singular solutions, ways you have learned to deal with reality. My work is to help you hear what they are saying and shift your relation to them—not to take them away.

We speak freely, multiple times per week, online. I listen for the unconscious in slips, hesitations, and what you almost say. Sessions are variable-length (15–40 minutes), cut at a moment of insight, not by the clock. This is open-ended, depth-oriented work—not brief therapy.

A common question: Isn't Lacanian analysis cold? I understand the impression, but in my room you will find presence, engagement, and genuine care. My silence is not withholding—it creates space so your words can land, your silences can speak, and your own truth can emerge without me imposing direction.

I work with expats, TCKs, and globally mobile people because displacement and multilingualism are not just context—they are part of the unconscious fabric we explore together.

This is for: Those who found conventional therapy too prescriptive or shallow, and who are ready to speak without being told where to end up.

Not for: Crisis work, brief solutions, or fixed 50-minute sessions.

Next step: A free 20-min video consult—just a conversation to see if this feels right.

I have worked clinically with adults across London, in NHS IAPT services and community mental health settings, coming into contact with diverse cultures and struggles. In 2019, I co-founded The Red Clinic, bringing a Marxist, politically engaged approach to mental health—arguing that suffering cannot be separated from capitalism and inequality. This deepened my commitment to a practice that does not suppress difference or retreat into false neutrality.

I have spoken on these topics at ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana and have presented regularly at Radical Talks Ljubljana since 2022. I am actively engaged in Lacanian circles across Europe—with NLS London, the EPFCL, and the Lacanian Clinic in Ljubljana—and have been a member of various cartels since 2019.

In my current practice, I work online with expats, TCKs, and internationally mobile individuals. Those who come to me are often aware of the complexity of our political moment and engaged, in their own way, in the struggle for a more just world. I do not bracket this out. Politics is always a matter for analysis. I argue for a practice that criticises therapeutic neutrality, refuses to suppress difference, and insists that who we are—in all our contradiction, desire, and discord—is precisely what we are there to speak about.

I do not hold a diploma that says "Psychoanalyst"—and I would not trust one that did. For Lacan, the title of analyst is not granted by a certificate or an institution. It is a question of desire, sustained by ongoing formation, personal analysis, and the work itself. Formation in psychoanalysis is not a finite program; it is a lifelong engagement. You continue to train, to read, to question, and to submit your practice to supervision for as long as you practice.

My formation has been, and continues to be, within the Lacanian Field. I began with the New Lacanian School (NLS) in London, and I am currently deepening my work with the International of Forums – School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (EPFCL).

Alongside this, I am pursuing a PhD in Philosophy. I began my doctoral research at ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana with the topic Psychoanalysis as the Dialectics of the Negative. After two years, I moved to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, where my work has developed into a more nuanced formulation: The Dialectics of Psychoanalysis through Conflict as the Principle of the Constitution of Knowledge.

Central to my formation is my ongoing personal analysis, regular supervision with a Lacanian analyst, and participation in cartels—small working groups dedicated to the study of analytic practice. This is not "continuing education." It is the living, questioning fabric of analytic life.