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 with individuals and groups from diverse cultural, linguistic, and professional backgrounds, including expatriates and internationally mobile professionals. Alongside my clinical practice, I write and present on psychotherapy, group analysis, and the dynamics of individuals, groups, organisations, and society. 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 complex inner and relational dynamics that are often difficult to fully understand, contain, or work through using brief, symptom-focused, or purely solution-oriented approaches.

I am currently undertaking advanced training in individual and group psychotherapy at the Institute of Group Analysis (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.

Professional training

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

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

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

Publications and presentations

Alongside my clinical practice, I write and present on psychotherapy, group analysis, organisational dynamics, and the relationship between individuals, groups, and society. 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.

Selected publications and presentations include:

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

The Eternal Golden Braid of Group Analysis (accepted for publication in 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) (3rd Relational and Group Psychotherapy Symposium, Athens, 2026)

Without Mamas and Papas; or a Group Session at the Heart of a Terrorist Attack (International Journal of Psychotherapy, 2016)

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

For a complete bibliography, 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 professional 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.