Consult
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." — Carl-Gustav Jung
Reasons for seeking therapy
A practical overview of the areas a therapy can address.
Depression ✦ Burnout ✦ Dissatisfaction and lack of meaning ✦ Loss of purpose at work
Diffuse anxiety ✦ Constant self-doubt and difficulty making decisions ✦ Perfectionism ✦ Imposter syndrome
Psychological, physical and sexual abuse ✦ Bereavement, separations, accidents, illness ✦ Repeated patterns of feeling stuck
Unfulfilling attachment bonds with parents ✦ Difficulty connecting with your own desires ✦ The tendency to people-please and adapt at your own expense ✦ Limiting beliefs and loyalties that confine you
Relationship difficulties — conflicts, communication breakdown ✦ Difficulty forming healthy connections ✦ Toxic relationships ✦ Struggling to find your place as a parent ✦ Difficulties with sexuality and fulfilment
Food ✦ Alcohol, tobacco, drugs ✦ Screens, pornography, gaming
Loneliness ✦ Expat challenges — multicultural relationships, value differences, isolation
"Resilience is not about being invulnerable. It's about blooming nonetheless." — Boris Cyrulnik
The first meeting
The first meeting lasts one hour.
Share what you're experiencing
You can share what's weighing on you. What you're hoping for. It's about getting to know each other, humanly and concretely.
I listen
I listen to what you express. I pay attention to what is sometimes painful to name. I will help you clarify what you're feeling, what you're going through, what you're looking for.
At the end of the meeting
I will tell you clearly whether I can support you and how. On your side, you decide whether you'd like to continue — entirely freely.
Subsequent sessions
Each session lasts one hour.
At the start of the session
You share what has happened since last time. An overview of what's current for you. A recent event. A dream. A realisation. A change in your behaviour. Or simply what's weighing on you that day.
What we'll work on
You choose the priority topic for the session, or it emerges naturally. It could be a conflict, identifying a buried desire, the procrastination around decisions that matter to your fulfilment, the unexpected return of a painful memory…
During the session
Depending on your needs, I draw on different approaches — dialogue, IoPT constellation, dream analysis, situational work.
At the end of the session
You share how you're feeling. I offer feedback on what I observed from my side. What has opened up. What needs to be consolidated. What still needs clarifying.
How long does therapy take?
This is a question that becomes clearer as the journey unfolds. There is no single answer — every story is different, everyone has their own pace. We will discuss it together.
Stopping or taking a break
Therapy has reached a milestone
This is the ideal scenario. Together, we recognise that the work has passed the milestone you were aiming for — or has progressed enough for you to continue on your own. We mutually agree to bring the work we started to a close.
You want to take a break or stop
We discuss it during a session. We dedicate time to it — to take stock of what has shifted, what you're taking with you, what remains open.
How to end: important
It is not possible to unilaterally or impulsively end therapy by phone or message without discussing it in a dedicated final session. Because this can sometimes be — without us realising it — a form of avoidance, a resistance to a blockage we are precisely about to unravel. It is important to be aware of this.
The way we consciously close a therapy is part of the therapy itself. This ethical guideline is applied by all therapists and exists, first and foremost, for your benefit.