photo by Isabella Alvarez
welcome
Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez practices Lacanian psychoanalysis in Vancouver, Canada. She has extensive clinical experience with diverse populations in public health (hospital and outpatient) and private settings in Mexico and Canada.
She has more than twenty years of clinical practice and training in Lacanian psychoanalysis, which is a therapeutic method that focuses on the unconscious truth that a person inherits, through their linage and culture, in their psyche and body.
Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez speaks regularly in various psychoanalytic conferences and colloquies, and her research has been published internationally, focusing on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, trauma, discourse, socio-spatial practices, love, and politics. She is registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.
She has more than twenty years of clinical practice and training in Lacanian psychoanalysis, which is a therapeutic method that focuses on the unconscious truth that a person inherits, through their linage and culture, in their psyche and body.
Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez speaks regularly in various psychoanalytic conferences and colloquies, and her research has been published internationally, focusing on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, trauma, discourse, socio-spatial practices, love, and politics. She is registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.

Listen to the unconscious, truth may open (im)possibilities
photo by Isabella Alvarez
what's new

06/22/2023
What makes a psychoanalyst?
Clinical Seminar. Presented by Hilda Fernandez for the Lacan Salon With the kind support of SFU Institute for the Humanities.…

06/22/2023
Some considerations on the notion of trauma
Lacan Circle of Australia: “We are all mad in here”November 25 to 27, 2022Melbourne, Australia…

06/22/2023
Mapping the discursive spaces of trauma and healing in mental health: The institutional unconscious
Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez. Doctoral Dissertation SFU Department of Geography. Access it here…