About

I am Lena Ildikó Németh (previously practising as Lena Ildikó Vincze Németh), a psychotherapist based in Brussels (Registration number: 0826.942.321). I work in English and Hungarian and provide psychotherapy for individuals and groups. My practice operates in legal compliance under Belgian law and in adherence to the UKCP Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

I specialise in working with individuals and groups facing complex inner and relational dynamics that are often difficult to fully understand, contain, or resolve through conventional approaches.

I am currently completing advanced training in individual and group psychotherapy with the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA), UK.

My therapeutic approach

I work within a psychodynamic tradition, drawing on group analysis. I understand each person not in isolation, but as shaped by the relationships, systems, and experiences they carry within them. Each person carries their groups within them, and every group is shaped by the people in it — in families, workplaces, friendships, and cultures.

Exploring these patterns in individual or group sessions helps bring what is hidden into awareness, opening the way for change and new ways of relating. In our sessions, attention is given not only to what you bring — your thoughts, feelings, and concerns — but also to how things unfold between us and around you.

Therapy is not only about solving problems, but about understanding yourself more deeply. As unconscious dynamics become more visible, new ways of relating and living can emerge.

Some difficulties cannot be resolved through advice, strategies, or quick interventions. They require time, attention, and the capacity to remain with complexity until something new can take shape. My work is particularly suited to those who are willing to engage at this level.

Core qualifications

• Advanced training in Group Analysis, Institute of Group Analysis (UK), 2023–ongoing

• Diploma in Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Institute of Group Analysis (UK), 2015

• Degree in the humanities, Hungary (graduated with distinction), 2002

Publications and presentations

My work explores uncontainable dynamics, the social unconscious, and the question of belonging in a fragmenting social world.

This interest has developed over time, from early work on multicultural and societal dynamics to more recent clinical and theoretical contributions.

Earlier and selected publications include:

Németh, I. (2000) The Theory and Practice of Multicultural Education – in the Mirror of the Gypsies in Hungary. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences. (hu)

Vincze Németh, L. I. (2016) Without Mamas and Papas; or a Group Session at the Heart of a Terrorist Attack. International Journal of Psychotherapy. Vienna: European Association for Psychotherapy. (en)

Recent publications and presentations include:

Unfathered Spaces: Uncontainable Dynamics and the Collapse of Symbolic Authority in an Online Professional Community (forthcoming, 2026)

The Eternal Golden Braid of Group Analysis (accepted for publication, Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik, 2025)

Across the Styx and Back: A Personal Reflection on My Years as GASi Forum Administrator (2020–2024) (Imágó Budapest, 2025)

Uncontainable Dynamics in an Online Professional Community: A Case Study of the GASi Forum (2020–2024) (presentation, 3rd Relational and Group Psychotherapy Symposium, Athens, 2026)

Therapeutic Notes — an ongoing series of brief practice-based reflections (Medium, 2025– )

For a full list, please see the Publications page.

Professional affiliations

I have been professionally associated with a number of psychotherapy organisations, including the Institute of Group Analysis (UK), the Group Analytic Society International (GASi), the Belgian Association for Psychotherapy (ABP-BVP), and the International Association for Group Psychotherapy (IAGP).

Earlier in my development, I was a member of the Bolyai Műhely in Hungary, an invitation-only programme for highly selected young scholars. 

If you feel that this way of working may be relevant for you, you are welcome to get in touch.