My expertise rests on the following.

✓ A long, regular and in-depth personal experience of the very work I offer you: thousands of hours of support received since the age of 19, which have helped refine my stance and my practice.

I know, in my body, what it is to be where you are.

I have lived it, again and again.

I have experienced forms of support in which I felt retraumatised.

And then I discovered Somatic Experiencing and NARM, which I brought together in L'Accompagnement Somatique Relationnel to create precisely the approach I would have needed — one that would have spared me years and years of difficulty, and of wandering from one form of therapy to the next.

✓ My current investment in a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, studied online and at my own pace, so as to benefit from the quality and innovation of British higher education and, in time, within a few years, to qualify as a psychologist.

✓ Thousands of hours of practice, and hundreds of people supported.

Hundreds of hours of supervision, to make sure I do this as well as I possibly can, and to keep refining my work.

✓ Collaboration with psychiatrists at the Institut du PsychoTrauma Paris and at the Cabinet Médical de l'Étoile.

✓ Certification in Somatic Experiencing, which requires, among other things, 216 hours of in-person training spread over two to three years.

✓ Certification in NARM, which requires, among other things, 160 hours of in-person training spread over two to three years.

✓ Selective admission to the 2026–2027 NARM Master Training in Copenhagen with Larry Heller.

Larry Heller, co-founder of the Gestalt Institute of Denver and of the Rocky Mountain Psychotherapy Institute, in Colorado, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and taught Somatic Experiencing for many years.

After decades of practising and teaching different modalities, he identified a significant gap in the approaches to early developmental trauma.

It is from this observation — and from the growing need in the field — that NARM, the NeuroAffective Relational Model, was born.

NARM addresses, in particular, the limits of Somatic Experiencing in cases of complex trauma.

Even in adulthood, and until a different experience of connection has been integrated within the work, the fight and flight responses remain out of reach, because they are directed at the person on whom, as a child, our survival depended: the attachment figure.

Our system is still steeped in that dependence, and therefore in the belief that, within this bond, to fight or to flee is to put ourselves in mortal danger.

What's more, in order to grow up in an environment that was unable to meet our needs — whatever the reason — we had to develop relational adaptations that still play out today, often without our realising, and that feed the dysregulation: not daring to say no, not knowing how to identify and honour our own needs, acting impulsively or compulsively, and so on.

Imagine taking a bath.

You find it too hot.

Somatic Experiencing lets you scoop some water out of the bath and add cold water to it, but it doesn't turn off the hot tap.

NARM turns off the hot tap.

L'Accompagnement Somatique Relationnel does all three.

It scoops out the water, adds the cold, and above all, turns off the tap.

Developmental trauma is a repeated, relational trauma, experienced by a child or adolescent whose brain is still developing.

Picture a tree.

We are not talking about an axe blow to a trunk that is already formed and solid, with roots anchored deep in nourishing soil.

We are talking about tiny, repeated knife cuts, deliberate or not, to a young sapling that manages to grow all the same — constantly adapting to those tiny, repeated knife cuts, in depleted soil, without sunlight, without water.

Even when, in its own experience, it believes it lacks nothing, and on the contrary enjoys a privileged environment.

What becomes of that sapling?

What does its trunk look like once it has grown into a tree?

How does it fare against the elements?

How does it respond, the day it finally receives the sunshine and the rain it truly needs?

And not the ones it adapted to?

Can it take them in — or will it all be too much at once, for a tree that has grown used to something else?

This work unfolds over time because it means unlearning 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years of conscious and non-conscious functioning — functioning that got you to where you are today, but that no longer fits your current environment, or what you long for.

At the start of each session, we always take the time to clarify what you want for yourself.

Sometimes, that alone is a challenge.

Either because you don't yet have full access to it, or because no one has ever paid sincere attention to what you want.

Or because you judge what you want, and don't dare to hope for it, for fear of being disappointed.

The work has already begun here — because all of this is already revealing the strategies you had to put in place to adapt and to grow in your environment.

Together, we bring sincere, caring attention to what emerges.

Once you have more clarity about what you want for yourself, we explore what stands in the way.

Sometimes it's beliefs.

Sometimes it's very concrete circumstances.

Sometimes it's emotions.

What interests us most is how you relate to these obstacles.

Because this is precisely where your potential for actualisation lies.

As our sessions unfold, the virtuous circle of L'Accompagnement Somatique Relationnel takes shape, and you gradually grow your capacity to feel, at last, the joy, freedom and peace you long for in your everyday life.

Sessions now take place exclusively by video call.

Yes, it works perfectly well by video call!

The work centres on your bodily sensations and on what moves between us.

That is every bit as rich online as in person, if not more so!

The distance invites us to bring more curiosity to what you are experiencing, and to grow your capacity to share it.

It’s a precious capacity, and one we rarely take the time to develop — when in fact it contributes greatly to regulating your nervous system, to resolving trauma, and to relational safety.

So the real question is: what matters most to you? The quality of the connection you create with the one you choose to support you, or being physically in the same place?

I don't promise a number, because I don't know of an honest one.

The work unfolds over time, usually at the pace of one session a week, or one every other week.

Some people come for a few months, others for much longer.

That depends on you — on what you want, and what you need.

Some people book one or two sessions a week.

Others, one session every other week.

A session usually lasts 50 minutes.

From our second appointment onwards, however, you can also book 75-minute sessions, if you wish to give yourself more time and space.

When you book a slot, my calendar automatically organises itself around your booking.

For that reason — and because I consider our time to be our most precious resource — I do not offer the option of cancelling a session once it is booked.

However, you may reschedule your session once, at least 72 hours before it takes place, by clicking the “Reschedule my appointment” button in your confirmation email.

That's what I hear most often, and it's fair.

If you have learnt to regulate your nervous system, you have already come part of the way, and not the easiest part: you can recognise your states, you have tools, and you use them.

What these tools do very well is bring your autonomic nervous system back into its window of tolerance.

This is known as stabilisation.

What they cannot do on their own is allow the integration of the fight and flight responses that remain frozen, or act on the strategies that lead to dysregulation.

It's a bit like scooping water out of a bath that is too hot, or adding cold water to it.

It is necessary — but as long as the hot tap is running, you have to keep doing it.

L'Accompagnement Somatique Relationnel does all three.

It scoops out the water, adds the cold, and above all, turns off the tap.

So that regulating your nervous system is no longer a goal that demands so much practice and effort, but the normal, natural outcome of a deep, structural transformation.

You and I, together, create a relational space that supports your sense of safety.

Depending on the experience of connection you have had until now, this can take more or less time.

Once you feel fully safe in our connection, the fight and flight responses that were frozen will emerge — naturally, and of their own accord.

Your system is intelligent.

We follow its impulses, while slowing things down and using your imagination, so that it can complete, in the here and now, the psychophysiological processes set in motion by defensive responses that were mobilised but never allowed to reach completion.

This is what we do with Somatic Experiencing.

When these responses remain out of reach — or when you recognise that our connection is safe without quite being able to feel it — it means certain adaptive strategies are still at work, and are now reaching their limits.

That is where NARM comes in.

There are as many ways of supporting a human being as there are human beings doing the supporting.

The name of a practice or an approach never guarantees the quality of your experience, which depends far more on the presence, the listening and the self-awareness of the person supporting you than on their training or certifications — although these do provide a valuable theoretical framework.

And sometimes, even with all of that, for whatever reason, it just doesn't click.

Only experience can tell you which practitioner offers a practice suited to your needs.

Whether with me or with someone else, try the experience, again and again.

You will find the right person!