Specialties
Every journey is personal and unfolds according to its absolute singularity. The tensions of existence are never experienced in an abstract way. The areas presented below constitute so many prisms through which distress, loss of meaning, and the "noise" of daily life are clarified and revealed according to the keys unique to each person's history.
Addiction is that object relation that comes before everything else for the person who reaps its benefits and suffers its damage — substances, gambling, sex, the Internet, or even shopping. The keys to overcoming dependency reside within the person, not in the details of what they cling to: at its core, any addictive recourse serves to mask an urgent pain. Working with a psychoanalyst makes it possible to understand the underlying conflicts and tensions and to find, over the course of the sessions, a way out.
One consults for an addiction when,
1 / A substance, a screen, or a habit has taken up more space than desired.
2 / A substance, a screen, or a habit has taken up more space than desired.
3 /Family and friends are worried, or have grown tired of talking about it.
4 / One feels that this recourse serves to avoid feeling something more painful.
5 / One wants to understand why, and not just learn to resist.
Intercultural analysis is for those whose frameworks — language, beliefs, family and community ties — differ from those of the country where they live today. It is not just a place left behind, but symbolic reference points that must be retranslated, sometimes alone. The practice creates a space to talk about this experience, in the language or languages that suit you, and to reclaim your place at your own pace..
One consults in intercultural clinical practice when,
1 /One still feels like a stranger, long after arriving.
2 / We’re in an intercultural relationship and we want to make the most of our differences.
3 / Cultural reference points, rituals, or ways of building a family that were taken for granted no longer hold true here, without knowing what to replace them with.
4 / Racism or the gaze of the other weighs more than one shows.
5 / One carries, without always knowing it, the exile or silence of a parent or grandparent.
Félix Guattari was surprised to see how few analysts, when faced with a person who cannot find their place, question the social, economic, and political circumstances that give meaning to this observation. There are indeed external factors that run counter to our hopes. The session is proposed as a process of identifying both pitfalls and supports, in order to draw a "map" of the current situation—and to trace new paths within it.
One seeks consultation for the world and its discontents when,
1 / One feels out of step, without being able to say why or in relation to what.
2 / One feels the "system" weighing heavily, without finding a space to express it elsewhere.
3 / A sense of meaninglessness sets in, with no specific cause to attribute it to.
4 / Current events—wars, climate crisis, uncertainty—become difficult to bear.
5 / One seeks to take action in one's life without denying what, around them, does not depend on oneself.
A couple is never fixed: it is built, transformed, and sometimes becomes fragile over the course of a shared life. My practice is a place to question the dynamics between two people—communication, desire, each person's narratives—and to find, together or separately, a clearer path. A couple is also a stage where stories much older than the relationship itself are replayed, often unbeknownst to both partners. Psychoanalysis allows us to put into words what is repeated, stucked or transformed.
One consults for couple's issues when,
1 / We go around in circles in the same arguments, without ever really resolving them.
2 / Routine has taken over, and desire seems to have faded along the way.
3/ One wants to open up the relationship or try polyamory, but feels hesitant or afraid.
4 / Hurtful or even abusive behaviors have become entrenched in the relationship.
5 / One feels that a breakup is looming, and wants to go through it without losing oneself.
Legal and medical discourses mark persons with categories in the service of the powers that be—an inventory of bodies, used to exclude so-called non-conforming sexualities and identities. Formulating one's thoughts and affects through speech, in a space free of constraints, can be a blow against the heteropatriarchal foundations of a social order in the process of being transformed. It is in the jubilation of difference, and not in its lair, that optimism ceases to be timid and becomes committed.
One consults in queer analysis when,
1 /One looks for a space to express their desire, gender, or identity without having to justify themselves.
2 / Coming out — one's own, or a loved one's — shakes references one thought were stable.
3 /A transition (social, hormonal, surgical) brings questions one doesn't know where else to ask.
4 / The gaze or rejection of others — family, work, institutions — leaves traces one has carried alone for too long.
5 / Desire, sexuality, or romantic relationships take forms that don't appear in the stories we've been handed.
There is no single way to "resolve" one's masculinity, as the saying goes. A double injunction seems to be addressed to us: be strong, but be gentle. The world where machismo ruled unchallenged is gone forever. We move forward with a faltering step without fully understanding the subtle stakes of the place we are now supposed to occupy—it is our responsibility to shape ourselves according to new models, and the task of inventing valid forms of masculinity is ours.
One questions his masculinity when,
