Psychoanalytic Practitioner, MSc (Pre-Accredited)

Polina is a Lacanian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with an MSc(Hons) from UCD. Her clinical formation on the course included 2 years of weekly case conferences with the psychiatry department, shaping a strong foundation in working with complex presentations, alongside attending a summer school in Amsterdam on (Trans-)Sexuality & Psychoanalysis, which is overseen by the University of Amsterdam. She also serves on the event committee of APPI as a pre-accredited member. Her first publication on subject formation and the logic of the unconscious is to appear in the psychoanalytic journal Lacunae later this summer.

Psychoanalysis is particularly well-suited for complex, persistent, and not easily explained issues, especially when someone feels stuck, without knowing why. It is especially helpful for long-standing & repeating patterns; questions around identity and desire; anxiety, depression; the effects of early experience or trauma; creative and relational blockages.

Psychoanalytic Pracitioner (Student)

Molly Fitzmaurice is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist-in-training at University College Dublin, now in the third year of a four-year programme. Her formation has included weekly case conferences at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, individual and group supervision, and ongoing personal analysis twice a week; a practice she has sustained for over seven years.

She also holds an MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies from University College London and a BA in Literature and Philosophy from University College Amsterdam. In those days, her work focused predominantly on anorexia nervosa and how it might articulate itself in various and often surprising ways. Alongside her clinical work, Molly is an active writer. She co-runs a writing company, MFG Copywriting, with her partner, Misha Goudsmit (philosophy PhD), and contributes a regular psychoanalytic column to The Holland Times. She also serves as Content Specialist for Paracelsus Recovery, a treatment centre in Zurich.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a long-term treatment grounded in the unconscious, which is understood to be that part of ourselves that escapes our awareness but plays a decisive role in how we experience our own lives. It announces itself in slips of the tongue, dreams, symptoms, and the patterns we repeat without knowing why. Rather than offering advice or ready-made solutions, analysis provides a space for something new to emerge: a shift in how we speak, desire, and live. It can be especially helpful for those caught in patterns of behaviour and thought that seem beyond our control.