Who we are
Crispin Balfour practices as a Lacanian Analyst and Group-analytic Psychotherapist and is based in Hataitai, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is a Member of the School of the International Forums in the Lacanian Field and is currently representative of the English-speaking zone to the College of Representatives to the School.
Crispin has over twenty-five years of working in the field and is an experienced Registered Psychotherapist (PBANZ) and member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) with a Certificate of Advanced Clinical Practice.
Crispin’s background includes working as an architect, actor, accountant, engineer and inventor. In 2001, he discovered a passion for psychoanalytic theory and practice. Since then he has extensively studied psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 2003 and a Masters in Psychoanalytic Studies in 2011.
In 2006 he completed an Introductory Course in Group Analysis and has conducted psychotherapy groups since 2007. He has pursued his own personal analyses which has been central to his training.
Jacqueline Williams is based in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She in in Formation as a Lacanian Analyst and is a member of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field. Dr Williams is a dual citizen and is licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in California and New York. She provides telehealth services internationally and has a psychoanalytic practice locally in Hataitai.
Dr Williams has extensive experience in emergency psychiatric assessment, crisis stabilization, inpatient psychiatric care, addiction treatment, and oncology support services. She has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and holds a master’s degree from Yale University. She was trained in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy during her clinical internship at the Wright Institute in Los Angeles and did her postdoctoral work in rural Alaska working in tribal health.
Prior to getting her PhD in clinical psychology, Dr Williams practiced as a nurse-midwife, women's health nurse-practitioner and internationally as a maternal health advisor.
Jacqueline is deeply committed to her own personal analysis and enjoys working with creatives who seek to incorporate dreamwork into their own creative process.