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 relationship which takes precedence over everything else for the person who reaps its benefits and suffers its consequences — whether it be substances, gambling, sex, the internet, or even shopping. The keys to overcoming addiction lie within the person themselves, not in the specifics of what they are attached to: ultimately, any addictive behaviour serves to mask a pressing pain. Working with a psychoanalyst helps one to understand the underlying conflicts and tensions, and, over the course of the sessions, to find a way out of them.
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.
The intercultural clinic is aimed at those whose frames of reference — language, beliefs, family and community ties — differ from those of the country where they now live. It is not just a place one has left behind, but symbolic points of reference that need to be reinterpreted, sometimes on one’s own. The work at the practice creates a space to talk about this experience, in the language or languages that feel right, and to reclaim one’s place at one’s 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. This session aims to identify both the pitfalls and the sources of support, in order to draw up a "map" of the circumstances we are navigating and to chart new paths through them.
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 relationship is never set in stone: it develops, changes and, at times, becomes fragile as a couple moves through the different stages of their shared life. The therapy room is a space for exploring the dynamics between two people — communication, desire, each person’s stories — and for rebuilding, together or separately, a clearer path forward. A relationship is also a stage on which stories far older than the relationship itself are re-enacted, often without the partners realising it. The work in the therapy room helps to put into words what is repeating itself, becoming stuck or changing.
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 categorise people to serve the powers that be — a veritable inventory of bodies aimed at excluding so-called non-conforming sexualities and identities. Articulating one’s thoughts and emotions through speech, in a space free from constraints, can undermine the heteropatriarchal foundations of a social order in the process of transformation. It is in the celebration of difference, and not in its seclusion, 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 "come to terms with" one’s masculinity, as they say. We seem to be faced with a double bind: be strong, but be gentle. The world in which machismo reigned supreme is gone forever. We are moving forward with faltering steps, without fully understanding the subtle challenges of the role we are now expected to fulfil — it is up to us to shape ourselves according to different models, and to take care to invent forms of masculinity that remain liveable.
One questions his masculinity when,
