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The Ballyba Clinic
The Ballyba Clinic
The Ballyba Clinic is a Lacanian psychoanalysis clinic located in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. We are dedicated to offering a rigorous, ethically grounded space for psychoanalytic work oriented by the teachings of Jacques Lacan.
Our clinic provides individual psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults and adolescents seeking a deeper engagement with their symptoms, impasses, and questions of desire. Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction or behavioral change, Lacanian analysis attends to the structure of the unconscious as it is expressed in speech. We work from the premise that the unconscious is not a hidden reservoir of meanings, but something that emerges in language—through slips, repetitions, dreams, and the unexpected turns of one’s own words.
At Ballyba Clinic, treatment begins with listening. Each analysis is unique, guided not by standardized protocols but by the singularity of the analysand’s speech. Our clinicians are trained in Lacanian theory and practice and are committed to ongoing study, supervision, and ethical formation.
We welcome individuals confronting anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, creative blocks, questions of identity, and other forms of subjective distress. We also work with those who are not simply seeking relief, but who wish to undertake a sustained inquiry into their position in love, work, family, and society.
Located in downtown Minneapolis, Ballyba Clinic offers both in-person sessions and telehealth options. We strive to maintain a setting that is confidential, reflective, and oriented toward serious analytic work.
Our Providers
Our Providers
Rev. G. Sam Conway MS LPCC
Rev. Genjo Sam Conway, MS, LPCC, is a psychoanalyst practicing at Ballyba Clinic in downtown Minneapolis. His work is oriented by the teaching of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian tradition from which Lacanian psychoanalysis emerges.
For Sam, psychoanalysis is not a technique for symptom management but a sustained engagement with the unconscious as it is structured in speech. His practice is grounded in careful listening — to slips, repetitions, contradictions, and the points where language falters. He works from the conviction that symptoms are not meaningless malfunctions but formations that carry a logic, one that can be approached and deciphered through analytic work.
His formation includes rigorous study of psychoanalytic theory, ongoing supervision, and sustained clinical practice. In the consulting room, he maintains a position that privileges the analysand’s speech, allowing each treatment to unfold according to its own structure rather than according to pre-established therapeutic goals. Sessions are oriented toward the singularity of each person’s history, desire, and relation to the Other.
Sam’s parallel training as a Zen priest in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri informs, but does not replace, his analytic work. The discipline of silence and the analytic function of listening converge in a shared ethical demand: to encounter what is most real without retreat into consolation or suggestion. At Ballyba Clinic, however, psychoanalysis remains distinct in its method — grounded in speech, transference, and the structures articulated by Freud and Lacan.
He works with adults and adolescents facing anxiety, depression, relational impasses, questions of identity, and persistent patterns that resist change. His orientation is neither prescriptive nor advisory. Instead, he offers a space in which speech can unfold and where something new may be heard — often for the first time — in one’s own words.
At Ballyba Clinic, Sam's practice is dedicated to serious analytic work: an encounter with the unconscious that aims not at adaptation, but at a shift in one’s relation to desire, responsibility, and the real.
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