How we work

The services I offer draw on clinical psychology and on the psychoanalytic perspective. Each offers a different angle for exploration and transformation.

1. Individual counselling

We all have relational, emotional and behavioural difficulties. I use my clinical psychology skills to offer you a trained ear and a structured setting for exploring and understanding signs of stress, anxiety, depression or conflict, and to accompany you in a way that combines insight with support.

We start from what brings you: an unease, a loss, a relationship that hurts, a moment of transition. Then, together, we also look at what lies beyond the symptom: its meaning in your story, what keeps repeating and what it is trying to say.

2. Couples counselling

For couples in which distance has settled in without any particular argument, in which the same arguments keep coming back, or in which trust has been shaken. Counselling does not decide for you whether you stay together or not; it offers you a place where you can understand each other and where you can say to each other what can no longer be said at home.

3. Counselling for children, adolescents and families

A child cannot always put into words what they are going through; they say it through the body, through play, through behaviour. An adolescent begins to separate, and the family has to learn to let them go without losing them. In both cases, conflicts, silences or symptoms are often a message, not a failure.

To the child I offer a space where they can express themselves in their own way, through play, drawing or words; to the adolescent, a space of their own, separate from their parents, where they can talk without everything getting back home; to parents, a place where they can think about their own anxiety and their place in the relationship. I also work with children who think, feel and learn differently: neurodivergent, gifted or high-achieving children. We begin with a meeting with the parents, then decide together whether it would help more to meet with the child or adolescent, with the parents or with the whole family.

4. Support for families living with a child's chronic illness

When a child is diagnosed with a chronic illness, the life of the whole family changes. Routines change, sleep changes, the couple relationship changes, and so does the way the parents relate to the child. The specialist doctor takes care of the treatment; what often remains unaddressed is what happens psychologically to the parents, to the child and to their siblings.

I work with parents, parental couples, children and adolescents in this situation. Alongside my professional competence as a psychologist, I bring the personal experience of being the parent of a child diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of five and now in adolescence.

5. Counselling for people living abroad

Online sessions, in Romanian or English, for people living in a country other than the one they grew up in, and for families separated by borders. I also know first-hand what it means to divide your life between two places, separated by borders, distances, beliefs and cultures, because I spend part of the year in France, near Nice.

6. Clinical psychological assessments

Sometimes you need a clear picture: “What is happening inside me? What do the tests say?”

I offer clinical psychological assessments that use standardised instruments (personality questionnaires, emotional assessments, cognitive tests where appropriate) and a qualified analysis. My assessments aim not only at a diagnosis, but at an in-depth understanding of your psychic structure, your defence mechanisms and your potential for development. The results are presented in a detailed report, with personalised recommendations.

7. Reaching personal and professional goals

Sometimes what brings you is not suffering, but the wish to achieve a goal: to make a career decision, to rise to the demands of a new role, to help a team work better, to bring a personal project to life. For these, I can accompany you as an equal, with a focus on goals and action, through systemic coaching.

Please note: coaching is not psychological counselling. When there is a deep emotional difficulty behind a goal, the right setting is one of the services above.

The foundations of change

All these interventions are grounded in my competence as a clinical psychologist and in what I have gained through my training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Together we start from an in-depth understanding of how the psyche works, how inner conflicts form, how defence mechanisms operate, how relational patterns are passed on and how authentic transformation can come about.

Transformation happens within, and in relationship. I am here to help you meet yourself and others in a deeper, more authentic and more conscious way.

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