-Psychologin, Psychotherapeutin FSP, Psychoanalytikerin IIPB -Individuelle Therapien in Deutsch, Französisch, Italienisch

Psychotherapy

The therapeutic goal is to remove the obstacles that block a person's tendency to realize their potential, to become as happy, autonomous and creative as possible, to live in harmony with the outside world by accessing the spiritual dimension: go from "instinct to spirit" by learning to integrate rather than repress. (Baudouin, 1950)

I offer adults individual and analytical care based on integrative psychotherapy according to Charles Baudouin (French humanist and psychoanalyst 1893-1963). In its early days, this type of psychotherapy was called "psychagogy", literally "accompaniment of the soul". Its conception of personality, and of the unconscious in particular, incorporates contributions from very different schools. Depending on the material brought in by the patient, I let myself be guided by the concepts of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Wood Winnicott, for example, but also Carl Gustav Jung for work with dreams and the more transcendental aspects.

I conceive my work as that of a "guide in unknown country" in relation to the patient's psyche. I don't know where the person I'm accompanying is going, but I start from the premise that he or she is seeking to satisfy a deep, often unconscious aspiration to realize his or her potential. What's important to me is to listen empathetically and communicate what's appropriate in a language of access

Individual supervision

With my varied professional experience - first as a musician and teacher, then as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst - I offer support to psychologists in training and psychotherapists.

Whether a therapeutic situation has succeeded, stalled or been prematurely interrupted, whether you need to make sense of a counter-transferential feeling or grasp the unconscious motivations behind a treatment, I aim to offer an outside perspective that will enable you to step back and connect with your resources.

Psychological Tarot

"When a symbolic representation imposes itself on the psyche or the psyche projects itself onto it, a strange relationship is created between the two: a mysterious convergence is woven between intuitions that seem to spring spontaneously in the psyche and the symbolic image that comes to meet them." (Diane Cousineau Brutsche, Le paradoxe de l'Ame)

Working with images can be a first approach to your inner world. In one-off sessions or as part of a therapeutic process, I can suggest tarot cards as a projection exercise. Like dreams, tarot images provide access to the contents of the unconscious.

The traditional character of these cards, whose origins date back to the 13th and 14th centuries, ties in with more recent discoveries in depth psychology. Certain concepts (symbol, archetype) elaborated by Swiss physician and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961) can be found in tarot images. A draw refers to the notion of synchronicity, which considers the coincidence of events in space and time as an interdependence of objective events with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer.

As a tool of the imagination, tarot cards can help grasp a person's internal conscious or unconscious orientations and reveal the likely stages of their evolution. A tarot card strikes, inspires and provokes a reaction. It sets in motion an active process deep within us, offering a face-to-face encounter with what we already know intuitively.

Focusing

Focusing is a method created by the philosopher Eugen Gendlin (born in Austria in 1926). It invites us to focus our attention on the body's inner self, through the breath, in search of our perceptions, sensations or representations. From this "feeling" or "felt sense" can emerge a first awareness.

It's a kind of inner resonance in connection with a life situation, theme or problem, which can emerge, when we manage to move away a little from the sole function of thought, often repetitive.

Getting the "focus" on inner listening also offers the possibility of going to the discovery of our most hidden resources, nestled deep within the body.