For more than thirteen years, I have been deeply engaged in the field of psychoanalysis — both in my clinical practice and in my academic and intellectual contributions. This page offers an overview of my work: my practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, my written publications and translations, and the presentations and talks I have given on psychoanalytic themes.
Clinical Practice
I am a registered psychologist in Quebec, Canada, with more than thirteen years of experience practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy with individuals and couples in both private practice and clinical/outpatient settings. My work focuses on exploring unconscious conflicts, dreams, and complex psychological dynamics, as well as addressing difficulties related to addiction, identity, and relationships. I also have extensive experience working with adolescents and young adults, and with immigrant populations navigating cultural transition and questions of belonging.
My therapeutic approach has been profoundly shaped by over a decade of advanced psychoanalytic training and supervision with distinguished international psychoanalysts, many of whom are senior members of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
Alongside my clinical practice, I serve as a clinical supervisor, supporting trainees as they develop their own psychoanalytic work—a role that keeps me actively engaged in the ongoing dialogue, transmission, and ethical practice of psychoanalysis.
Publications & Translations
Alongside my clinical work, I contribute to psychoanalysis through writing, research, and translation, aiming to share insights and make key works more accessible.
Main editor
1. IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Link.
Essays
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In search of identity by drawing a self-portrait : a psychoanalytic overview of the life of Vincent van Gogh. (2017). The digital library of the Van Gogh Museum. Link.
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Culture and Psychopathology. (2017). Sepide Danaei publication.
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Personality and Art. (2017). Sepide Danaei publication.
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Family in 21st century. (2017). Sepide Danaei publication.
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Addiction and Psychological Conflict: The Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma; A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Addiction. (2016). Published in the Mental Health Journal of the Ministry of Health of Iran; Special issue of World Health Organization.
Translations (into persian)
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Theories of Sexuality in Childhood. (2022). Tehran: Gahtreh Publications (Fourth Publishing Series - Persian Translation on Freud's articles on Sexuality). Link.
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Organisation on the couch. (2025). Livonics publishing. Link.
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Inter-subjectivity entry. (2021). IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Link.
Presentations & Talks
Online event
From Soil to self: a terroir as a metaphor of crystalized self. (2025). The memorial of Prof. Sudhir Kakar. Held by Freudian Group of Tehran.
Online event
The setting goes Ding Ding Ding. (2022). Majles e Psychoanalysis - In-between event with Freudian Group of Tehran and Livonic Institute of Learning (India)
In Person
In praise of (not) reading a book: a psychoanalytic look on reading a book as a daily habit and being in a library. (2018). On a national day of reading a book at the Malek National Museum and Library Institute, Tehran, Iran
In Person
Mowlana and Shams: Toward Thirdness. (2015) Third Psychoanalytic Conference - An invitation to engage with the Other - An indo-Iranian dialogue, Delhi, India
