Consultations in Amsterdam and online
Psychotherapeutic Practitioner & Coach
Therapeutic support for French speakers. Practitioner of the IoPT method developed by Franz Ruppert.
Book an appointment“We know how to survive. What if we learned how to live?”
What you're going through
Maybe your life "works" on the surface — and yet something isn't right. Maybe you've succeeded in certain areas — but you feel it's not enough. Maybe you're tired of adapting. Of people-pleasing when you're carrying something entirely different inside.
Vous vous reconnaissez peut-être :
- An anxiety that has settled in.
- That recurring "what's the point?" Less motivation, less pleasure — even for things that used to matter.
- Situations that repeat — the same conflicts, the same distance in intimacy, the same feeling of inner loneliness.
- An exhausting perfectionism. That feeling of being an imposter despite your experience.
- Burnout, a loss of meaning, a professional life that no longer feels like yours.
- A known or suspected trauma that feels heavy to carry — violence, bereavement, a separation, an illness.
- The difficulty of feeling grounded in yourself and in the place where you live.
What we don't see
We all have our blind spots. Much of what we do — our reactions, our escapes, our choices, our blocks — is rooted in places we cannot see. Old events. Buried wounds that nevertheless shape our path.
To survive, we all had to build strategies inherited from childhood. Makeshift armour. These strategies protected us. Up to a point.
Today, that same armour prevents us from moving toward what we truly desire. This can manifest through a wide range of symptoms — anxiety, depression, inertia, anger, psychosomatic illness — which often share common roots.
Like wearing a cast for too long
It's a bit like continuing to wear a cast long after the fracture has healed. A cast on a leg is visible. On a psychological level, the cast is often invisible. We're not aware we're still wearing it. We exhaust ourselves without understanding why.
Seeking help is, first and foremost, about removing that cast. It's looking at what happened — without judgement and with self-compassion — to understand how we function today. And finally choosing how we want to live tomorrow. To live, then. To no longer merely survive.
"You don't need to be ready. You just need to begin." — Milton Erickson
What therapy can change
Here is what can be observed progressively — and differently for each person — over the course of therapeutic work.
Protective mechanisms begin to lighten
The survival strategies built over time — control, hypervigilance, withdrawal, performance — can gradually lose their grip. Not because they are eliminated, but because they become less necessary.
The past takes its rightful place — a bygone moment
Little by little, it becomes possible to stop confusing yesterday's threats with today's reality. Some disproportionate reactions ease. What belongs to the past begins to be recognised as such.
Your deeper identity reclaims its space
The healthy part of the personality — often stifled by old pain — gradually regains room. Your relationship with yourself can become more authentic. You begin to sense what you truly want — rather than what the wound compelled you to want.
The outer world increasingly reflects this inner shift
Certain situations and relationships may shift. New ones emerge. Others may fall away — because they were built on a survival dynamic rather than a conscious choice.
Is it difficult?
The real question is rather: "what does it cost me to change nothing?" The only risk you take is discovering yourself. You only live once.
The only "accounts" we will have to answer for in our lives are to ourselves.
Seeking help means accepting to meet yourself in order to better embody your own life.
In a safe, confidential space — free from tension, judgement, or guilt.
You deserve someone to take a genuine interest in your story. Someone who listens — not to correct you, not to judge you, but to help you hear yourself, see yourself, transform.
You feel better after therapy than before. Always.
Is now the right time?
It's never too early to take care of yourself. Wellbeing is a natural resource — one that is often untapped. Left untreated, chronic distress costs more — in every sense of the word — than choosing to face it.
French-speaking expats
You're a French speaker. An expat. And something is missing. Not necessarily your country. Perhaps just your mother tongue.
Memories, emotions and events surface more spontaneously in one's mother tongue. Blocks can be approached more quickly.
I am French. I've lived in the Netherlands for years, after living in France, Germany and Great Britain. I know these societies from the inside — their codes, their relationship to authority, to emotion, to work, to others, to conflict.
Expatriation, a multicultural relationship, binational children, working in a non-French-speaking environment — all of this can create diffuse yet very real tensions.
Enriched by the practice of intercultural coaching, therapy can help you identify and work through the psychological impact of these experiences.
15+
Years of practice
25+
Years in media
3
Languages
UvA
Trainer, Amsterdam