Integrative psychotherapy
I adopt an integrative therapeutic orientation, which means that psychological work is not confined to a single school or technique. Instead, it involves choosing what best suits the person’s situation, history, type of suffering and current capacity for change. Therapy is therefore not built from a ready-made model imposed on the patient, but from a precise understanding of what the person is experiencing, and from a flexible combination of deep listening, work on emotions, the body, memory, patterns of thought and behaviour.
The approaches presented below summarise the main therapeutic tools that I integrate into my clinical practice. They are not used systematically or mechanically, but are selected and combined according to each situation, each person, and the stage reached in the therapeutic work.
IR – Imagery Rescripting
Imagery Rescripting is based on the therapeutic use of mental imagery to return, in a safe and carefully guided way, to an inner scene that has left a deep emotional imprint: an early situation, a painful memory, a recurring image, or an old feeling that still influences the person’s relationship with themselves and with others.
The aim is not to relive the past as it happened, nor to change the facts, but to work differently with the mental image associated with it. Within the scene, a presence that offers protection may be introduced, along with a new response, a supportive stance, or a symbolic correction of what remained, in the original experience, without protection, without fairness, or without recognition.
This approach aims to reduce the emotional charge attached to the scene and to modify some of the deep beliefs that may have formed around the self, such as helplessness, guilt, or a sense of worthlessness. This process helps the person develop a more stable sense of inner safety, dignity and psychological continuity.
EMI – Eye Movement Integration
EMI is a therapeutic approach used in work with painful memories, traumatic experiences and certain persistent emotional reactions. It relies on guided eye movements, which help activate different aspects of memory: images, bodily sensations, emotions, thoughts and meanings associated with the lived experience.
The aim is not to erase the memory, but to support its gradual integration, so that it is no longer experienced as something still active, intrusive or unresolved. By mobilising the links between eye movements, memory and associative processes, EMI helps the person transform their relationship to the traumatic experience, reduce the emotional charge still attached to it and regain greater inner stability.
PTR – Reassociative Trauma Psychotherapy
PTR is an approach focused on the treatment of psychological trauma and its dissociative effects. It uses strategic conversational hypnosis, in which the patient remains active, aware and fully involved in the therapeutic process.
Its central principle is not to force traumatic reliving, but to allow a gradual transformation of the person’s relationship to the memory, the body, the emotions and the sensations associated with the traumatic experience. The therapeutic work aims to restore inner safety, mobilise the patient’s resources and reconnect what has been fragmented by trauma.
PTR views traumatic symptoms not as simple dysfunctions, but as protective attempts that have become costly. The aim is therefore not to erase the past, but to transform the imprint it leaves in emotional memory, so that the person can regain greater freedom, stability and presence within themselves.
Creative Visualisation and Therapeutic Imagery
Creative visualisation uses mental imagery to mobilise internal resources, strengthen certain psychological states and open up new possibilities for change. It invites the person to build images, scenes or sensations internally that support a therapeutic objective: calm, confidence, protection, preparation for a situation, or transformation of an inner experience.
Within a therapeutic framework, this is not about “positive thinking” in an artificial way, but about allowing the psyche to experience certain possibilities differently. The image then becomes a support for inner reorganisation: it helps the person connect with their resources, transform their relationship to a difficulty and gradually establish more stable inner references of safety, confidence and action.
Trauma work
Therapeutic trauma work is not merely about talking about the past. It also aims to transform emotional memories, automatic reactions, persistent sensations and forms of suffering that continue to affect the present.
Clinical Hypnosis
Clinical hypnosis is used as a therapeutic tool to facilitate access to inner experience, psychological resources and processes of emotional transformation.
Emotional Memory
Emotional difficulties are not always linked to a lack of willpower. Certain reactions become automatic as a result of stress, trauma or personal history. Therapeutic work gradually helps to restore a capacity for calm, understanding and inner stability.
Certain experiences continue to have an emotional impact even when they belong to the past. Therapeutic work aims to understand and transform these emotional memories when they still influence reactions, relationships or inner experience.
Emotional regulation
Emotional difficulties are not always linked to a lack of willpower. Certain reactions become automatic under the influence of stress, trauma or personal history. Therapeutic work gradually helps to restore a capacity for calm, understanding and inner stability.
Transcultural approach
Cultural history, language, exile, affiliations and identity conflicts can profoundly influence psychological well-being. The transcultural approach takes these dimensions into account in therapeutic work.