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I am Lena Ildikó Németh (previously practising as Lena Ildikó Vincze Németh), an individual and group psychotherapist based in Brussels.
I have been in private practice since 2010, working in English and Hungarian with individuals and groups from diverse cultural, linguistic and professional backgrounds. Many of the people with whom I work live between countries, languages or cultures, including expatriates and internationally mobile professionals.
My route into psychotherapy has crossed several fields and countries. My earlier background includes communication, journalism, education and work in public institutions. These experiences continue to inform my interest in how individual lives are shaped not only by personal history, but also by families, groups, organisations and wider social structures.
I completed the Institute of Group Analysis Diploma in Individual and Group Psychotherapy in 2015.I am currently undertaking advanced training in group analysis at the Institute of Group Analysis, UK.
My clinical formation also includes psychiatric placement, long-term personal psychotherapy, ongoing clinical supervision and extensive experience of conducting both individual and slow-open psychotherapy groups. My oldest group has been meeting continuously for sixteen years.
Across clinical practice, personal therapy, training and supervision, I have accumulated nearly 20,000 hours inside psychotherapy over almost three decades, working across three countries and three languages. This breadth of experience informs a way of working that attends to what is spoken directly, what appears through relationships and what may be communicated without yet having words.
Therapeutic approach
I work primarily from psychodynamic and group-analytic perspectives.
This means that we are interested not only in immediate symptoms, but also in the relationships, experiences and organising patterns through which a person’s inner world has taken shape. Patterns that were once necessary or protective may later become restrictive, even when their origins are no longer visible.
The therapeutic relationship offers a setting in which these patterns can gradually be recognised and understood. Change does not come from imposing a prefabricated interpretation or technique. It develops through sustained attention to what is happening, how it has been organised and what new forms of experience and relationship may become possible.
In group psychotherapy, this exploration takes place within a carefully formed therapeutic group. The group allows relational patterns to appear in real time and offers possibilities for recognition, connection and change that cannot always emerge in individual work alone.
Writing and wider interests
Alongside my clinical practice, I write and present on psychotherapy, group analysis and the dynamics connecting individuals, relationships, groups, organisations and society.
My particular interests include migration and belonging, identity, the social unconscious, online communities and the structures through which people and groups contain—or struggle to contain—difficult experience.
My current public writing explores the hidden architecture of psychological and social life: how patterns are formed, why meaningful change often takes time and what becomes possible when previously unseen structures can be recognised. (see Substack and Publications)
Professional information
Lena Ildikó Németh, Dip GWP
Individual and Group Psychotherapist
Group Analyst in Training | Institute of Group Analysis, UK
Private practice since 2010
Brussels, Belgium
English and Hungarian
Belgian registration number: 0826.942.321
I practise in accordance with Belgian law and the UKCP Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
Professional recommendations
Professional recommendations
“Lena Ildiko is a talented, intelligent, thoughtful, insightful psychotherapist working with both groups and individuals. As a senior teacher, supervisor and researcher, I am delighted to be working with her.”
Cynthia Rogers
Individual & Family Services Consultant and Contractor, London, United Kingdom
“Lena Ildikó is a very experienced therapist and group work practitioner, with an insightful, compassionate approach to her work. I warmly recommend her for people seeking analytic individual or group psychotherapy.”
Chris Powell
Group Analyst and Organisational Consultant at Spark, Leeds, United Kingdom
“I was immediately impressed with her intellect, ethics and compassion for her clients. Ildiko demonstrated an in-depth knowledge of clinical theory, combined with her awareness of the importance of culture on the clinical encounter. […] I value Ildiko as a colleague and friend, and think that she is an outstanding clinician.”
Richard Beck
Past President, International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes; Senior Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, United States
If you feel that this way of working may be relevant to you, you are welcome to get in touch.
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