OUR MISSION
Leap begins with the mission of elevating and empowering psychoanalysis by demonstrating how this practice impacts people’s lives in every field, context, and situation. We emphasize elements deeply rooted in contemporary psychoanalysis history to promote critical thinking and intellectual debate and positively affect our ways of life.
OUR TEAM
Javier Bolaños and Florencia Bernthal Raz founded LEAP combining their education and psychoanalysis specialties to offer a more extensive and unique experience. Leap’s professionals have worked and researched extensively in science, AI, social studies, critical thinking, linguistics, mathematics, and topology. They envision novel ways of articulating knowledge to understand humankind and its interactions. Pursuing life from a psychoanalytic perspective derives productivity, and solutions and possibilities arise in the process.
The years of experience acquired by LEAP conclude in novel opportunities in forming and sustaining bonds between individuals.
Florencia Bernthal
Florencia Bernthal is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst with a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in Argentina and a Psychoanalyst license in NYS. Her natural inclination for psychoanalysis in the early days of her studies resulted in in-depth training in research and education over years of practice as a clinician.
In New York, in addition to her private practice, Florencia is the co-founder of the Lacanian Encounter Association of Psychoanalysis (Leap.), an organization dedicated to articulating psychoanalysis in the Artificial intelligence and translation fields including personalized coaching to screenwriters that use language as a vehicle to narrate and produce fiction work.
She is the editor and translator of the academic and scientific journal Saltos and a board of directors member of Fundación Salto in Argentina.
She has experience in childhood education, where she developed the tools to truly engage children to provide a learning experience that would positively impact students and their families.
Javier Bolaños
Javier Bolaños is a Psychoanalyst. Master's Degree in Psychology from UNC, Argentina. Master's Degree in Critical Thinking from Mexico. President of Fundacion Salto in Argentina. Editor in chief of the academic Journal Saltos. Co-founder of Leap (Lacanian Encounter Association of Psychoanalysis) in the US. Co-founder of Salto PC&S (Psicoanalisis, Cultura y sociedad) in Spain.
Highly experienced in education, research, supervision, and transmission of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
He is a teacher of the Master's degree in Critical Thinking at 17, Institute of Critical Studies in Mexico. A graduate and former faculty at UNC. Former mental health practitioner at Sanatorio Morra.
Recognized by the National Directorate of Migrations and the Legislature of the Province of Cordoba for his contribution to psychoanalysis and cultural heritage.
