Approach
"Healing means fully living one's own identity, to realise what lies at the heart of our being." — Franz Ruppert
Understanding alone is not always enough to change
Learning to feel.
Understanding why we suffer is essential. Yet intellect can also be a way of not feeling.
What we do together goes beyond words. Into the body. Into emotions. Into the unconscious. Into what lies beneath the words you've been telling yourself for years.
Approaches for greater autonomy
The support takes into account the entirety of who you are. The priority is not to adapt you to a life that doesn't suit you. It is to free your vital energy. To reclaim your autonomy. To become the author of your own story once more.
- ✦ In-depth dialogue
- ✦ IoPT Constellations
- ✦ Dream analysis
- ✦ Body-oriented approaches inspired by Gestalt
Approaches that allow you to feel, to see — not merely to understand. My role is to accompany you in this exploration. So that you can identify what's holding you back and find your direction. With presence and compassionate rigour.
IoPT Constellations
Identity Oriented Psychotrauma Theory — Method of Franz Ruppert
Widely adopted in 30 countries, the IoPT method developed by Franz Ruppert is still relatively unknown in the French-speaking world. You can access it here, in French.
What an IoPT constellation is
IoPT is a therapeutic approach developed by Professor Franz Ruppert (Munich University of Applied Sciences). It explores the structure of the psyche based on the premise that most of our blocks, fears and suffering originate in early trauma — often invisible, sometimes even prenatal.
Trauma, survival and fragmented identity
When a traumatic event occurs — especially in childhood — the psyche fragments into three parts: the traumatised part (the one that endured), the survival part (the one that developed strategies to cope), and the healthy part (the one that carries our authentic desires, our vitality).
These three parts coexist within us. And most of the time, it's the survival part that's in charge — control, perfectionism, hyper-adaptation, performance, avoidance. Strategies that were necessary at one point. But that today limit us.
Why survival strategies become a prison
The survival part is strong. Structuring. It got us through the pain. Effective in the moment. But over time, it takes up all the space.
The problem isn't that we suffer. It's that we no longer know who is suffering — and who, behind it all, is waiting to truly exist. The living identity — the one from before the wound, the one that carries our real desires, our vital energy — is there. Buried. But alive.
How it works in practice
IoPT uses a simple yet powerful technique: the constellation of an intention sentence.
- You put into a few words what you want to work on. "I want to understand why I sabotage my relationships." "I want to feel free." "I want to know who I truly am."
- Each word in this sentence is then explored — through the body, through resonance, through what emerges spontaneously when you truly sit with it.
- This isn't reasoning. It's resonance.
- The information surfaces — often where you least expect it. Buried memories. Suddenly illuminated repetitive patterns. Emotions long blocked that finally find an outlet.
The analytical brain observes. The body knows. — L.J
What happens within you during an IoPT constellation
You open up a space around you where long-buried emotions can finally show themselves. Franz Ruppert calls this setting your traumatic history in motion (Ruppert, 2012). Your mirror neurons — the neurons of empathy discovered by Rizzolatti (1990) — awaken. And you begin to feel, sometimes to your own surprise, the impact of people or events you would never have suspected.
What you may experience after the session
You may feel moved by an emotion, dream vividly, and notice that something has changed positively in the way you react in everyday life. That is a good sign. Your nervous system may be reorganising itself (van der Kolk, 2014).
What this approach makes possible
Where words are no longer enough, the body and deep memory can take over. IoPT constellations make it possible to:
- ✦ Integrate traumas that have remained silent
- ✦ Move a therapy forward when it seems to have stalled
- ✦ Understand your survival strategies (Ruppert, 2011)
- ✦ Move closer to who you really are
These specific areas are part of my practice
Some suffering has a name. Others remain vague — a diffuse unease, an incomprehensible reaction, the suspicion that something happened without being able to name it.
Trauma rarely speaks through clear memories. It expresses itself through the body, behaviour, repetitions — unexplained hypervigilance, dissociation in intimacy, difficulty trusting.
Trained in traumasexology by Peter John Schouten, I work on these delicate territories with approaches that require neither telling — nor reliving.
- ✦ Known or suspected traumas
- ✦ Psychological, physical, sexual abuse
- ✦ Suspicion of abuse without specific memories
- ✦ Impact on sexuality and intimacy
- ✦ Early trauma — before the age of speech
Men seek therapy less. Not because they suffer less — but because they were rarely taught to name what they feel.
I have accompanied men individually for years. A space to talk about your father, your place in the couple, the loneliness of the father's role, feeling unwell at work. Without shame or having to perform.
- ✦ Men's emotional life
- ✦ Father-son relationships — absent father, violence
- ✦ Loneliness in the father's role
- ✦ Real place in the couple
- ✦ Feeling unwell in the working world
More and more people live these experiences outside therapy rooms and then look for a space to work through them psychically.
Some people come to consultation after an intense experience in an institution, alone or on retreats.
These experiences can be revealing, left unresolved, or destabilising.
- ✦ Traditional medicinal plants outside Europe
- ✦ Post-traumatic therapies and experiences of expanded states of consciousness in a legal framework (university hospitals of Utrecht, Geneva)
- ✦ Breathwork — holotropic breathing
These experiences sometimes open certain doors. Without work to make them conscious, what was glimpsed risks remaining an intense parenthesis, encapsulated in silence.