Working with me

I am a psychoanalytic clinician from Aotearoa New Zealand.

I am based in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, where I run a hybrid practice. I offer consultations both in person and remotely online. I am available to work with people both locally and internationally.

My approach is grounded in a Lacanian orientation to psychoanalysis while drawing influence from other schools and figures from across the rich history of psychoanalytic thought.

Before becoming a psychoanalytic clinician, I worked in the arts sector and academia, studying and teaching in the humanities. This instilled in me both a love of language and its poetics, and a sense of how factors such as class, race, and gender shape our experience of the world. I bring these influences with me into my analytic work.

My practice is inclusive and flexible; I welcome clients of all ages, ethnicities, religions, gender expressions and sexualities. 

I run a community-oriented practice and am committed to making psychoanalysis accessible regardless of your background or circumstance. Accordingly, I will work with you at a rate negotiated relative to your financial means.

Please email me to arrange a preliminary session to discuss the offer of psychoanalysis or you can read more about psychoanalysis here.


Richard B. Keys

Psychoanalyst-in-training
Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Member, Centre for Lacanian Analysis Aotearoa
Member, International Forums of the Lacanian Field

Contact: richard.benjamin.keys@gmail.com