Psychoanalysis and couples therapy in Lugano

Individual therapy

Anxiety - especially among young people - and a certain resignation are rampant today, as if people no longer believe it is possible to be happy. A sense of bewilderment and disorientation prevails in a society where everything changes very quickly and there are no longer any stable points of reference.

Paradoxically, it is precisely the negative symptoms or pains we feel that can reawaken in us the perception of the value of ourselves: body and psyche warn us that something is not right.

Stress, dissatisfaction, sadness, depressed moods, sudden anxiety or anger, fears, irritability, guilt, emptiness or lack of meaning, difficulties in emotional relationships or at work, crisis at an important transition in life, fear of illness or death, etc. are not illnesses but part of life.

Through talks and with a focus on dreams, I help to enter into a true inner dialogue with oneself in order to reactivate the psychic and spiritual resources within each of us, thanks to which it becomes possible to deal constructively with life's problems.

Couples therapy

When we are in love we feel that being with the one we love is what makes us happy. Sometimes, however, this relationship becomes a source of great suffering. How is this possible? What does such a change mean?

I use Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy method to help couples in difficulty experience more constructive and effective ways of relating, accompanying them on a journey of greater self- and other-knowledge.

The analytical approach is useful for recognising the unconscious mechanisms that over time can become an obstacle in the fascinating adventure of love, and for rediscovering the possibility of living the heart's desire with freedom.
Becoming aware of our relational modalities is also fundamental in order not to repeat unhealthy and dysfunctional mechanisms in the upbringing of children.

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"If I do not fully realise my life, it will be bequeathed to my children and on them, in addition to their own difficulties,
will be the burden of my unlived life". (C.G. Jung)

Spiritual counseling

In our society, death has become a taboo: we never talk about it and do everything to keep it away.
When we are confronted with the diagnosis of a serious and potentially fatal illness - our own or that of someone close to us - we often find ourselves disarmed and feel unable to cope with a situation in which everything seems to collapse.
Accompanying and supporting patients and family members in this decisive phase of life can make all the difference in living through such dramatic moments in a humane way.

I also make home visits or visits to in-patient institutions.

Who I am

I was born in Lugano in 1969. Following some painful experiences, since my high school years the question of whether it was really possible to love and be happy absorbed all my energy.
I studied history and political economy at the University of Fribourg and during those years I felt the call to become a priest in the Catholic Church.

After graduation I began the study of philosophy and theology, which ended with a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology. Pastoral ministry was a very intense and rich life experience, but after several years I had to recognise that I could not be fully myself in that capacity.

In 2017 I left the priestly ministry and the following year I started training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich to become a psychoanalyst.

After two years of intensive work as a spiritual counsellor in the EOC Palliative Care Clinic (2020-2022), I have decided to devote myself full-time to my private activity as a psychoanalyst and spiritual counsellor.