My professional journey has been shaped by the diversity of the people I have met and the settings in which I have worked. It has led me to support individuals at many different stages of life, from the earliest months of pregnancy through to adulthood.

 

Each experience has given me a different perspective on how relationships are formed, how difficulties can disrupt the course of development, and how the therapeutic relationship can become a powerful source of transformation.

 

In a parent–infant unit and maternity setting, I supported parents from the early months of pregnancy through to the first months of their baby’s life—a period in which so many invisible yet decisive processes shape a child’s emotional development.

 

In a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, known in France as a Centre Médico-Psychologique or CMP, I worked alongside psychiatrists, psychomotor therapists and speech and language therapists. Together, we supported families facing concerns about their child, helping them to understand their situation, identify their needs and enable them to return to a path of development and growth that had, for a time, been disrupted.

 

This experience also taught me how greatly a multidisciplinary perspective can enrich our understanding of psychological distress and open up complementary therapeutic possibilities.

 

Within child protection services, including a residential nursery for infants and children’s residential care homes, I observed and worked with children placed in the care of the French child welfare system. I was guided by a desire to support their emotional and relational development and help them rebuild a foundation of safety.

 

This work profoundly shaped my understanding of early trauma, attachment difficulties and emotional regulation in very young children whose lives had been affected by painful and complex family histories. These children were often searching for meaning and reassurance as they began to build their identity and develop their social and relational capacities.

 

In adult psychiatry, I worked with patients whose life stories were often complex. This taught me to recognise the lasting imprints of earlier trauma, unspoken intergenerational patterns and early experiences that may continue to shape a person’s inner world long after childhood.

 

What these experiences have taught me

Each experience has taught me how to meet and hold psychological suffering at every stage of life.

• To accompany it so that it can gradually be transformed—not as an end in itself, but as a possible path towards a deeper understanding of oneself

• To recognise its universal nature while respecting the unique way in which it is expressed by each individual

• To look beyond symptoms and see a person in the fullness of their humanity—sometimes vulnerable, yet always carrying inner resources that can emerge when the right conditions allow them to be rediscovered.

 

Above all, these experiences have taught me that, beneath the diversity of individual journeys and difficulties, the same fundamental questions often return: How does a sense of inner safety develop? How do our earliest relationships influence the way we connect with others, face adversity and perceive ourselves?

 

This is the conviction that guides my practice today: to support each person with the understanding that their story is never their destiny, and that when the right relational conditions are present, development, healing and change always remain possible.

 

 

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