This is what psychoanalysts do. They listen to you, carefully. They can help you see deeper into your suffering, deeper into the patterns of unhappiness and distress in your life.

In today's world, being "well" or "happy" is far more than just a wish or a hope --it's almost an imperative; yet we dedicate so little time and effort in finding what prevents us from becoming exactly that, "well" or "happy".

How more convenient would it be if there was a magic potion that could guarantee happiness... Most of us would happily take it --and many of us do, even though we know, deep inside, that this was a false promise.

Psychoanalysis does not give such guarantees because it recognises that there are no easy fixes.

As a psychoanalyst, I invite you to talk.

You can talk about everything —whatever crosses your mind: complaints, symptoms, fears, desires, dreams, fantasies, opinions, doubts.

This is the only rule of analysis, namely that there are no rules, or agenda for the session: There is nothing that should be discussed. There is nothing that should not be discussed.

The idea is that nothing in our mental lives exists in total isolation of all else. Our desires, our problems, our symptoms, are related to our personal history and connected to each other in ways which most of the time are unknown to us but they manifest themselves in what we say and how we say it.

Psychoanalysis is a tool of investigation, that aims to bring to light the whys and hows of our suffering.