Life has brought me to this point because it's well made! 

After a career in the corporate world, and a "traditional" married life, I went through a series of trials that led me to question the meaning of my existence and the choices I had made.

Why, when all the boxes seemed to be ticked, wasn't I fully happy?

Why couldn't I appreciate the "present moment", why were things in my life replaying themselves against my will?

Deeply attracted to psychology, the psyche and neuroscience for many years, I first looked for a therapy that made sense to me and that responded in its structure to my vision of life: 

"Man is naturally made to live in relationship with others".

When we're born, this bond is vital to our secure development and our ability to explore the world. Later on, it continues to shape our relationship with the world, but it's also often a source of traumas and wounds that are recorded in our bodies, sometimes with physical manifestations.

How does it work and how do I get out of it? 

The magic of this model is that the secure bond is also the key to healing, to insight into ourselves and what's going on around and with us. 

Self-regulation only really works if it is validated by the benevolent gaze of a secure attachment figure. 

If this has been lacking in the past, the therapist, in a conscious therapeutic commitment, offers this possibility. 

 How? 

By allowing us to slow down, to offer a space-time for ourselves, to feel what's going on in our bodies, to translate the pain of the past that's still playing within us but that we can't decipher. The body forgets nothing. 

"I can't feel anything in my body"? This is what we call dissociation.

The therapist is still there to welcome this and to explain the reasons for it. 

Safety is paramount in this therapy. Why is this so? 

The nervous system can only be regulated in safety. If it senses danger, it tries to fight or flee back to safety. 

If it doesn't, it pushes us to freeze, to collapse, cutting us off from our feelings to protect us from danger. 

Through this therapy, I was finally able to understand what was going on in my body and in my head. My relationship with the world is more harmonious. I can detect danger and return to safety. In short, I'm anchored, fully, deeply and sustainably happy, and those around me are benefiting. 

Does all this speak to you? Does achieving it appeal to you? 

I'm here to welcome you and offer to accompany you on this path.... yours!

I welcome you Monday to Friday, from 9am to 6pm, in person, in Paris 15 (line 6 Dupleix, line 10 Charles Michel/ Emile Zola), in a pleasant, bright setting, but I can also welcome you by videoconference. 

For appointments, I prefer a phone call beforehand. I prefer Whatsapp messages if I'm not available. 

See you soon :)

All the best,

Stephanie