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Institute for Psychotherapy Ljubljana
At the Institute for Psychotherapy Ljubljana—represented by the Psihoanaliza Okorn logo—Dr. Igor Okorn, psychoanalyst (IPA) and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Mag. Leja Lončar Mikić, Master’s graduate in Psychotherapy Science and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, work together.
The Institute was founded in 2009 and today serves as a space for gaining new experiences in therapy, both individual and group, for supervision, and for acquiring new clinical and theoretical knowledge.
Our paths in psychotherapy began to intertwine in 2017, within the framework of a therapeutic process that concluded after four years. In 2021, we decided to combine our strengths, knowledge, and experiences, each contributing our own part of the journey we had walked.
A part of our shared journey can be expressed through a piece of poetry created during our therapeutic process, which also serves as a guiding inspiration for our work at the Institute:
“I am afraid of depth,
darkness and emptiness,
tell me once again,
is closeness healing?
Closeness is that which
hurts the most,
and also the remedy
that heals the wound.”
We believe that beneath everything in the psychotherapeutic world, which carries numerous professional titles, lies one fundamental element: the relationship.
Humans are relational beings, and we come to therapy (as in other forms of help) seeking a different kind of relationship—in the right circumstances, this relationship can be healing.
We believe that a healing relationship entails the intertwining of different dimensions that an individual often struggles to develop alone. Each person carries their own inner galaxy—a blend of memories, feelings, relationships, longings, and silences. Sometimes the paths within this space are clear and bright; other times they are obscured by pain, loss, or old patterns that pull us like invisible gravity.
Our experience shows that a healing relationship helps both participants—the therapeutic pair (or all involved)—to explore the galaxy and chart new maps, as well as to recognize orbits, black holes, and stars.
It is a “slow flight through the mist,” in which one can recognize their own direction, develop orientation, and build an inner compass. This is made possible through a relationship that provides a safe space, free from the harmful gravity of returning to destructive and unhealthy patterns, where it is possible to float, explore, break apart, and come together again.
“… We are such stuff
As dreams are made on;
And our little life,
Is rounded with a sleep.”
– W. Shakespeare
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