The Art and Science of Living Freely
Childfree Freethinkers’ Psychoanalyst
Online Neuro/Psychoanalysis
SHARED REALITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
You should be able to trust your shrink’s judgment
Being a childfree and nonspiritual atheist can make finding psychological support surprisingly difficult. Influential psychoanalytic traditions have treated parenthood as a normal stage of development, leaving the choice not to have children open to interpretations of unresolved conflict or damage from the past. When those assumptions enter the consulting room, your choice can become something a wrong clinician thinks you need to work on.
Then there is the question of how your shrink makes sense of reality. As a nonspiritual atheist, you may find it difficult to place your trust in someone who accepts supernatural explanations or engages in magical thinking. Even if those beliefs never enter the sessions explicitly, they can leave you wondering how carefully that person distinguishes evidence from conviction. You are asking someone to help you understand your mind; being able to trust their reasoning quite matters.
I am childfree, nonspiritual, and atheist myself, and this is why I have dedicated my practice to people who share those starting points. Here, your decision not to have kids needs no justification, and you can expect working grounded in psychological understanding and scientific evidence. Sharing that basis means we can question an interpretation without first having to negotiate what counts as real.
WHO I WORK WITH
Childfree Freethinkers
Freethinking
ATHEIST AND NONSPIRITUAL
You are an atheist without spiritual or supernatural beliefs. You value explanations that can be questioned, and you would prefer to discuss your life without astrology, manifestation, or cosmic intentions entering the conversation. Here, feelings deserve careful attention and interpretations remain open to examination.
Childfree
A LIFE WITHOUT PARENTHOOD
You have chosen a life without children, whether that decision is recent or decades behind you. You do not need to justify it here. We can discuss the relationships, pleasures, conflicts, and uncertainties of your life without assuming that parenthood is the missing piece.
THE APPROACH
What Is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is a system of psychological theories and conversational methods for understanding and influencing mental life. We use the approach to explore and work trough your past and present experience, identify connections and patterns, and work toward changes that matter to you. As a neuropsychoanalyst, I draw on psychoanalytic knowledge revised by modern biological sciences.
How We Work Together
My Online Practice
ONE TO ONE
Individual psychoanalysis
Regular, confidential video sessions in which we work with your emotional difficulties, relationships, and questions about yourself. The continuity lets us examine recurring patterns and work through what makes them difficult to change.
SMALL GROUPS
Conversations in small groups
Private meetings for childfree freethinkers, with room to consider your own experience alongside other people’s. You can discuss difficulties or questions about life, with people who share your atheist, nonspiritual outlook.
EDUCATION
Lectures, workshops, and courses
Accessible explanations of mental life, informed by psychoanalysis and biological science. We connect ideas with everyday experience so that what you learn becomes useful for understanding yourself.
Your Psychoanalyst
Malka Ceh, PhD
I am Malka Ceh, a certified (neuro)psychoanalyst with a PhD in evolutionary anthropology, and a MSc in psychotherapy science. I work online in English with childfree, nonspiritual atheists.
I’m a childfree and nonspiritual atheist. I enjoy figuring out how mental life works, especially when an apparently minor detail complicates an explanation that seemed perfectly convincing a moment ago. In our conversations, I bring that interest to whatever you’re trying to understand or change.
You can expect me to be involved, direct, and willing to ask an uncomfortable question. There’s room to disagree and room to laugh. We take your life seriously without the reverent tone and ceremonial solemnity that often pass for therapeutic depth.