Clinical Psychologist · Psychoanalyst

Everyone is held together somehow.

A space to speak, and a place to begin. Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults and adolescents in Beirut and Adma, and online wherever you live.

Mario Abboud Mario AbboudHorsh Tabet · Adma · Online
The Borromean knot Three rings. No two of them linked. Lacan drew the subject as three rings: the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary. No two are tied to each other. Each is held in place by the third. Click a ring to see what it stands for.
Licensed by the Ministry of Public HealthLebanese Order of PsychologyInterviewed in An-Nahar

Approach

The person before the diagnosis.

People come to therapy for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes the trouble has a name. Often it doesn’t. You feel stuck. A relationship keeps going the same way. A question about who you are, or what you want, won’t leave you alone.

Psychoanalytic work doesn’t treat suffering as a list of symptoms to get rid of. It listens for what those symptoms, repetitions and conflicts might mean in your own history.

“Why does this take this particular form, for me?”

Where it starts

Every story begins with a first sentence.

Choose one that sounds familiar.

Click a sentence to see where it leads

Illustrative sentences, not quotes from clients.

Recurring patterns You understand it. You still repeat it. Some patterns survive every explanation. The work asks what the repetition is holding on to, and what it might be trying to say. Begin with a first consultation →

Sessions

Same time. Same place. Your hour.

Ongoing work happens at the same time every week. That regularity isn’t a formality; it’s part of the work. Week after week, the hour is there for whatever you bring. A four-session arrangement reserves it for you in advance.

Fees and practicalities →
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Week 1 18:00
Week 2 18:00
Week 3 18:00
Week 4 18:00
Example: a Tuesday, 18:00, held for you each week.

The rooms

Two addresses. One way of listening.

More of the rooms →
Horsh TabetCentre Groupe, 6th floor, Horsh Tabet Main Street, Sin El Fil, Beirut
The consulting room in Horsh Tabet, with a tall window onto Beirut
The room
The waiting room in Horsh Tabet: a grey sofa under a wide window
Waiting room
Reception: the head mark on a marble desk and a blue armchair
Reception
A blue armchair, an orchid and evening light
The chair
AdmaAbboud Building, ground floor, Blue Zone, 1st Street, Adma, Keserwan
The waiting room in Adma: armchairs, a glass table and a spiral lamp
Waiting room
An hourglass by the window in Adma
The room
A bookshelf, a plant and an armchair in the Adma waiting room
Reading corner
Adma: a desk by a window onto trees
The desk

Online · for Lebanese abroad

The same hour each week, wherever you are.

In your language, with someone who understands the references you grew up with. Online work depends on the rules where you live, so we check that together before we start.

Montréal11:00
London16:00
Paris17:00
Beirut18:00
Dubai20:00
Online sessions →
Portrait of Mario Abboud

About

What interests me is what’s particular to each person.

Not only what hurts, but how someone came to live, love, repeat, desire and make sense of it all. I’m a licensed clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, and much of my work has been with trauma, sexuality and gender, identity and relationships.

Sessions in
Arabic and English · French on request
Formation
Balamand · Forum du Champ Lacanien
Licensed by
Ministry of Public Health
Full background →

Press

Interviews in An-Nahar

All articles →

Perhaps you already know what brings you here.
Perhaps you don’t.

Either can be a place to begin.

Request a first consultation mario@psymarioabboud.com Already a client? WhatsApp +961 76 370 374
or book online