Every person’s story is particular.
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis centered on the singular experience of each individual — their history, relationships, suffering, desires and the questions that bring them to speak.
A place to speak — and to be heard differently.
People come to therapy for many different reasons. Sometimes there is a clear source of distress. At other times, what brings someone is harder to name.
A feeling of being stuck. A relationship that seems to repeat itself. Questions about identity or desire. A dissatisfaction that persists even when life appears to be going well.
My work begins with the particular experience of the person sitting across from me.
About my approach →Clinical Psychologist · Psychotherapist · Psychoanalyst
Different reasons can bring someone to speak.
Self-understanding & recurring patterns
When you understand intellectually what keeps happening, yet find yourself repeating it.
Explore this area ↗Traumatic experiences & what follows
Working not only with what happened, but with how an experience continues to exist within your life.
Explore this area ↗Sexuality, gender & identity
A space to explore sexuality, desire, gender, intimacy and identity without reducing the person to a category.
Explore this area ↗Relationships & intimacy
Exploring attachment, desire, separation, conflict and recurring patterns within relationships.
Explore this area ↗Adolescence
A confidential therapeutic space for adolescents navigating identity, relationships, sexuality, family, anxiety and change.
Explore this area ↗Emotional distress
Anxiety, depression, grief, overwhelming emotions or a difficult-to-name sense that something is not right.
Explore this area ↗More than symptom relief.
Psychoanalysis is central to my clinical identity and to the way I listen.
Rather than treating suffering only as a collection of symptoms to remove, psychoanalytic work also asks what symptoms, repetitions, relationships and conflicts may mean within the singular history of the person.
Why does this take this particular form for me?
Learn about psychoanalysis →There is no predetermined story to uncover and no single way a person is supposed to be.
The work begins with what is particular to you.
A person is more than a category.
Questions of sexuality and gender can involve desire, intimacy, relationships, family, belonging, shame, acceptance and conflict.
My work in this area is informed by years of specialized clinical experience with people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, while keeping the person’s own experience at the center of the work.
Explore this area of practice →
Mario Abboud · BeirutI’m Mario.
A clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. I’m fascinated by the story that is singular to each person — not only what hurts, but how someone has come to live, love, repeat, desire and make sense of their experience.
My clinical work is grounded in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, with particular experience in trauma, sexuality and gender, identity, relationships and complex psychological difficulties.
More about my background →Adolescence is a particular moment of becoming.
A space of their own to speak about identity, relationships, sexuality, family, anxiety, expectations and the future.
Learn more →Psychotherapy beyond Lebanon.
Online sessions may be available to clients outside Lebanon, subject to applicable professional and regulatory requirements.
Learn more →Perhaps you already know what brings you here. Perhaps you don’t.
Either can be a place to begin.
Request an Initial Consultation →Book a sessionChoose your preferred time; your appointment is confirmed after my approval.