About
About
"It is the relationship that heals." — Irvin Yalom
What I do — and how
Psychotherapeutic practitioner
I work with you on your life as a whole — not just on a symptom, a problem or a specific situation. Your history, your childhood, your body, your relationships, your desires, what blocks you without you always knowing why.
My sessions draw on an understanding of deep psychic mechanisms — what reflection alone is not always able to unlock.
To do this, I rely on concrete therapeutic tools — including the IoPT method.
The meaning of therapy: becoming who we authentically are. A real, lasting change.
Coach
Sometimes people come to me for a specific professional or private situation, to reach a particular goal. A difficult new position. A relocation. A relational conflict at work. Adapting to a new cultural environment.
In that case, I can offer focused support, oriented towards action and more concrete results — to move forward effectively within a given context.
Intercultural coaching engagements
I also work as an intercultural coach with companies — KLM, Air France, ING — as well as with public institutions such as NATO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the public broadcaster and the University of Amsterdam.
What role does the bond with the therapist play?
The therapeutic approach matters. Human qualities matter more.
Outcomes depend less on the method than on the quality of the therapeutic relationship. This is what psychologist Bruce Wampold calls the "therapeutic alliance" — the number one factor in change. It is a foundation of trust.
Feeling at ease
Choosing a psychotherapeutic practitioner means choosing someone who will support you with respect and professionalism — and with whom you feel comfortable enough to say what is truly weighing on you. This relationship is governed by a strict code of ethics that guarantees confidentiality and respect for you as a person.
My story
My name is Ludovic Jean. I am French, and I have been living in the Netherlands since 2009. I work as a psychotherapeutic practitioner (known as a "counselor" in some countries) and as a coach for French speakers.
I was born in Brittany, a region marked by a taste for the open sea and for inner life. Very early on, I wanted to understand and sense what happens beneath the surface — of things, of people, of myself.
My path crosses psychology, communication and political science. With the same curiosity: tracing back the processes behind events.
For several years I worked as a journalist across Europe — for the written press and public broadcasters (Arte, France Télévisions, Radio Canada, RTS) — and as a communication trainer for executives. I listened, explored and passed on.
One certainty eventually emerged: the outer world is only a reflection of our inner world.
My grounding, my outlook
My various training programmes in psychotherapy and coaching have structured my practice within a humanistic integrative approach. It brings together several therapeutic approaches around one conviction: each person carries within them the resources for change, and grows through a listening relationship that integrates body, emotions and the meaning of life.
Carl Gustav Jung opened me to depth psychology. Franz Ruppert showed me how trauma shapes our identity without our knowledge. Gestalt therapy taught me to stay in the present — where everything is truly at play.
Alongside this, decisive encounters — with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, pioneering doctors, and healers from ancient traditions in Europe, Asia and America — have refined my outlook and transformed me.
My conviction is that life is always stronger than what holds it back.
Always. Despite trauma, wounds, accidents and blockages. My work is to help you become who you truly are.
My background
Training
- Academie voor Counseling en Coaching (Netherlands) — Psychotherapeutic practitioner training
- Instituut Interakt (Netherlands) — IoPT method — Theory of trauma and identity (Prof. Franz Ruppert, Margriet Wentink)
- Instituut Excetra (Netherlands) — Traumasexology (Peter-John Schouten)
- Seminar on Jungian Symbolism (École Savoir-Psy, Elizabeth Coret-Leblanc)
- Institut de Développement des Études en Énergétique et Sinologie (Paris) — Training in Chinese therapeutic and energetic approaches (Dr Jean-Marc Eyssalet)
- Men's talking groups: facilitation within the circles created by Canadian psychoanalyst Guy Corneau
- Master's degree in Communication — Université Paris Diderot (Paris)
- Master's in Sciences of Religions & Secularism — École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)
- ENA seminar
- Degree from the Institut d'Études Politiques (Bordeaux)
- ERASMUS scholarship — Kingston University London
- DEUG in Foreign Languages and Civilisations (Nantes)
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship — Tübingen, Germany
Personal
- Personal psychoanalysis with a Jungian orientation
- Analytical Gestalt therapy groups (Dr Pierre Coret & Elizabeth Leblanc-Coret, Jacques and Sarah Revah)
- Seminars and individual sessions at the School of Orientation on Being (Netherlands)
- Therapeutic group in psychotraumatology
- Travels of exploration and meetings with practitioners of early rational medicines in South America (Peru, Argentina), Asia (Philippines, Nepal) and the Mediterranean.
- Art therapy through theatrical meditation (Paris, London)