Vakhtang Kezheradze is a psychotherapist in private practice, clinical researcher, and educator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Before entering psychotherapy, he spent over fifteen years in audit and assurance, ultimately serving as an audit partner. Risk, accountability, and ethics were central to that work and continue to shape his clinical practice and research.

Trained in Gestalt psychotherapy, he continues his postgraduate clinical training in phenomenological psychopathology at the Turin School of Psychopathology in Italy. He holds an MA in Psychoanalysis from the Global Centre for Advanced Studies (GCAS Dublin). His thesis, "At the Edge of the Void: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Tantra and the Limits of Interpretation" confronts a central epistemological impasse in psychoanalysis: whether and how interpretation is possible when experience remains preverbal and unformulated, not yet available to symbolic representation. It develops the Transformational Field Model (TFM) as a field-phenomenological approach to clinical work with such void states.

His principal research brings Śākta Tantra into dialogue with clinical psychoanalysis and phenomenology. It explores how Tantric philosophy and symbolism can orient the therapist within states not yet available to representation. This work grows from my personal and scholarly engagement with Tantric philosophy, especially its approaches to dissolution, transformation, and that which eludes the symbolic register.

The TFM draws on Bionian and post-Bionian field theory, relational and intersubjective psychoanalytic traditions, and Bracha Ettinger’s matrixial theory. His research focuses on trauma, the psychic void, and preverbal clinical states marked by decathexis and unformulated affect. The model explores how these states become perceptible through subreal resonances registered in shifts of atmosphere and in bodily and affective traces, and how, through wit(h)nessing, they may be carried-with and transformed within the matrixial borderspace of the therapeutic encounter.

He grew up in Georgia amid the social and political upheavals of the post-Soviet period, an experience that remains present in his thinking about collective melancholia, repetition compulsion, and the psychic legacies of Soviet totalitarianism, its collapse, and the historical ruptures that followed. In his writing and teaching, he approaches human suffering from a field perspective, with particular attention to the aesthetic, ethical, and transsubjective dimensions of clinical practice.

Outside his clinical and academic work, his evenings are taken up by music, poetry, visual arts, cinema, and caring for plants. He has a deep love of astrology and the study of esoteric traditions from around the world.