I am a therapist in training affiliated with the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy (CTP). CTP is one of the oldest psychotherapy training institutes in Toronto, dating back to 1986. I have been an active member of its community since 2021.

Although I do not practice psychoanalysis myself, I believe psychoanalytic theory remains highly valuable to clinical work, and that understanding the history of our discipline is essential to its advancement. This interest in psychoanalytic theory is what brought me to CTP and builds on a long-standing engagement with continental philosophy, and in particular the thought of Jacques Derrida. His was some of the first philosophical work I read in my native tongue of French. I have been lucky enough to study under some of his most avid contemporary readers, including Martin Hägglund of Yale University.

Since entering psychotherapeutic training almost five years ago, I have had the opportunity to extensively engage with the work of Sigmund Freud, whose work frames the early years of training at CTP. I have also written about Melanie Klein, Heinz Kohut, Jean Laplanche and others. All of these ideas, as for most of us in the psychoanalytic tradition, have found meaning in my own experience of a transformative psychotherapy.

I am currently undertaking research on the influence of psychoanalysis and object relations theorists on the development of feminist philosophy in the United States.