Giorgio Tricarico holds a Master's in Clinical Psychology and post-graduate Jungian training from CIPA in Milan, and works as an analyst and supervisor in Helsinki. He is one of the founders of the Finnish-Estonian Group for Analytical Psychology (FEGAP) and of the Finnish Association for Analytical Psychology (FAAP; SAPY in Finnish), and has had a central role in the diffusion of Jungian and Neo-Jungian culture in Finland and Estonia. He came to depth psychology obliquely — he had imagined a life in music, playing guitar and singing in bands, and for a time that life and the clinical one ran in parallel. What tilted him decisively toward analysis was his own personal analysis, and the experience of dream work in particular. Dreams, he says, opened perspectives on the complexity of his inner world that had not been visible before; once they began speaking, he found he could not remain a spectator. That early encounter with the hidden architecture of psychic life has informed everything since.

After more than two decades of practice — and a move, in 2009, from Milan to Helsinki that brought with it a radical expansion of his clinical world — Tricarico describes the work as a never-ending process of exploration and discovery. His first published book, written at the close of his Jungian training, gathered his reflections on what happens between patient and therapist in the analytical process; the relational field, that shared vessel in which both parties are changed, remains central to how he thinks and listens. Working across many languages and cultures has sharpened a particular kind of attention: he does not take for granted the meaning of the words a patient reaches for, and he is drawn to etymology, to the specific term someone chooses in their own tongue. Culture, he has come to believe, is a dress rather than an identity — beneath it lie the universal elements that make us recognizably human.

He is frank about referring onward when a different approach would serve someone better — an honesty that reflects his understanding of the work as a relationship to be discerned rather than a method to be applied. In practice, the people who find him are often internationals navigating life in Finland, as well as others drawn less to a named modality than to a particular quality of accompaniment. He describes himself as a wanderer on this planet like his patients, a possible companion for a portion of their journey — an ally, in his own words, of their creative and curious sides. Those who sit with him can expect a first encounter shaped by genuine inquiry, close attention to language, and a willingness to go slowly toward what is most essentially, and most individually, human. Tricarico's areas of interest are the individuation process in post-modernity and therapeutic factors in therapy and analysis. He has explored and analysed non-mainstream topics in his written works, like mass porn as a phenomenon of the current time, and consensual non-monogamies and polyamory in relation to individuation.