When people ask me how I practice psychotherapy, I like to say that I work at the crossroads of two of the most fascinating fields of our time — neuroscience and psychoanalysis. That is where neuropsychoanalysis lives, and that is where I find the meaning of my clinical work.
What is Neuropsychoanalysis?
Neuropsychoanalysis is a relatively young but rapidly growing discipline that explores the interface between neurobiology and psychoanalytic models of the human mind. It was born from a simple yet revolutionary observation: the brain and the mind cannot be studied in isolation. For too long, these two fields existed as parallel universes — neurologists mapped the brain, while psychoanalysts explored the unconscious. Neuropsychoanalysis brings them together.
Thanks to modern technologies that give us a window into the active brain, we can now link brain processes with psychoanalytic concepts — the unconscious, the role of emotions, early relational experiences, fantasies, and internal representations. Neuroscience is expanding our understanding of the neural circuits involved in memory, motivation, self-regulation, and interpersonal relations. Psychoanalysis, in turn, gives depth and clinical meaning to that data.
Pioneers such as Mark Solms and the late Jaak Panksepp have shown that core psychoanalytical ideas — the unconscious, the central role of affect, the significance of early experience — find their confirmation in contemporary neurology. This is not merely theoretical curiosity. It is a bridge that makes psychotherapy more precise, better grounded, and more effective.
Why Did I Choose This Approach?
My path to neuropsychoanalysis was not accidental. I come from the IT world, where I learned to think systematically — with data, with evidence, with logic. When I entered the field of psychoanalysis and completed my doctorate, I was searching for something that could connect deep clinical work with scientific rigor. My specialization in applied neuropsychoanalytic techniques was the natural continuation of that searching nature.
Neuropsychoanalysis allows me to work psychodynamically — with the unconscious, with early attachment patterns, with recurring emotional dynamics — while also understanding what is happening in my client’s brain and nervous system. When someone comes to me with anxiety, panic attacks, or burnout, I don’t just see symptoms. I see a story, written simultaneously in the nervous system and in the unconscious.
Who Is This For?
For anyone who wants to understand themselves not only as a story from childhood, but as a living, responsive organism with a unique nervous system. For people who have tried different approaches and feel that something is missing. For those who care that their therapist understands both the latest research and the deeper layers of the psyche.
You can learn more about it in the web of the International Association to which I am glad to be an accredited member.