About Us

CASA Lalangue is a not-for-profit space in Sydney where community, culture, and mental health meet psychoanalysis. With a focus on multiculturalism and social connection, we foster wellbeing through our social clinic, community initiatives, and transmission and educational programs in psychoanalysis and mental health.

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Who We Are

Founded in Sydney in 2025, CASA Lalangue is a not-for-profit organisation born from a shared dream between two mental health professionals, Flávia de Carvalho and Francielli Angelotti. Both are psychoanalysts deeply committed to listening to the unique and complex narratives of each individual with care, ethics, and responsibility.

Coming from backgrounds where access to education and mental health care was limited, we understand the importance of spaces that open doors. It was through opportunities like those we now create at CASA Lalangue that we were able to study, work, and access mental health care in meaningful ways.

This personal experience shapes the foundation of everything we do.

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Our Mission & Philosophy

We are dedicated to community, culture, and mental health. With a focus, but not limited to, CALD communities and people in vulnerable situations, we provide accessible support through our Social Clinic, Community Projects, and Education in psychoanalysis, psychology, counselling, and other mental health fields.

What We Do

CASA Lalangue exists to make the transmission of psychoanalysis, the sharing of other mental health fields, and access to mental health care more democratic. We believe in creating spaces of listening, learning, and transformation, especially for those who, like us, once faced barriers that seemed impossible to cross. We foster multiculturalism, social connection and community wellbeing.

Our Values

The word Casa means HOME in Portuguese, our mother tongue and this choice is not accidental. We envision CASA Lalangue as a welcoming, living space of care, transmission of knowledge, community, and belonging.

Lalangue comes from a concept in psychoanalysis introduced by French psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan. It refers to the intimate link between language, the body, and subjectivity, a notion that guides our clinical, educational, and ethical practice.

Our commitment remains strong: to care, to share, and to build community through knowledge, listening, and the belief that mental health is a right, not a privilege.