Who we are
Crispin Balfour practices as a Psychoanalyst and Group Analyst based in Hataitai, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is a Member of the Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand and a Member of the School of the International Forums in the Lacanian Field. He is currently (2025-2026) Representative of the English-speaking Zone to the College of Representatives to the School.
Crispin completed a four year formation in Lacanian Psychoanalysis with the Centre for Lacanian Analysis in 2023. He has pursued the study of psychoanalysis alongside his own personal analyses for over twenty years. He has a Masters Degree in Psychoanalytic Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Crispin has over thirty years of working in the field and is also an experienced Registered Psychotherapist and member of the Association of Psychotherapists of Aotearoa New Zealand with a Certificate of Advanced Clinical Practice.
In 2006 he completed an Introductory Course in Group Analysis and has conducted group-analytic groups since 2007.
Crispin’s background includes working as an architect, actor, accountant, engineer and inventor. In 2001, he discovered a passion for psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Jacqueline Williams is based in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She practices as a Psychoanalyst and is a Member of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field. Dr Williams is a dual citizen and is licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in California and New York. She provides telehealth services internationally and has a psychoanalytic practice locally in Hataitai.
Dr Williams has extensive experience in emergency psychiatric assessment, crisis stabilization, inpatient psychiatric care, addiction treatment, and oncology support services. She has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and holds a master’s degree from Yale University. She was trained in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy during her clinical internship at the Wright Institute in Los Angeles and did her postdoctoral work in rural Alaska working in tribal health.
Prior to getting her PhD in clinical psychology, Dr Williams practiced as a nurse-midwife, women's health nurse-practitioner and internationally as a maternal health advisor.
Jacqueline is deeply committed to her own personal analysis and enjoys working with creatives who seek to incorporate dreamwork into their own creative process.