CONSULTATIONS

A space for meeting, listening, and transformation

Behind The Brain of Presence also lies a clinical practice, where the quality of presence is at the center of psychological transformation.

A practice born of several years of research in neuroscience, now extended into the fields of psychotherapy, trauma, and mental health.

The human brain never fully regulates itself alone. Emotional security, calm, and trust — or conversely, anxiety and hypervigilance — are deeply shaped through our relationships with others. Therapy then becomes a particular kind of space: a space where the nervous system can progressively regain greater stability, inner security, and emotional flexibility.

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The first consultation

The first session is, above all, a time for meeting.

I invite you to talk about what you're currently going through, but also, if you wish, about your personal history — childhood, family relationships, significant experiences, emotional or professional life.

The goal isn't simply to gather information, but to begin understanding together how your history, your emotional system, and your way of being in the world have developed over time.

You are welcomed in a caring, confidential, and non-judgmental setting.

You are free to approach topics at your own pace, according to what you feel ready to share. At the end of this first meeting, we decide together whether therapeutic work seems appropriate for you.

How the therapeutic work unfolds

Each course of therapy is unique. Some people feel better relatively quickly. Others need more gradual and deeper work. The pace depends on your history, the nature of the difficulties you face, your current environment, and the quality of the therapeutic alliance we build together.

The work generally revolves around two complementary dimensions

Understanding how you function — Part of the work involves better understanding what's happening within you: emotions, automatic reactions, anxiety, avoidance, relational patterns. Neuroscience and psychoeducation often help give meaning to experiences that previously seemed confusing or incomprehensible. Understanding alone often already eases part of the suffering.

Progressively transforming certain patterns — Over time, we identify together certain ways of functioning built up through your history — protections, coping strategies, beliefs about yourself or others. These mechanisms often served an important function at some point in your life. But some may now become a source of suffering or blockage. The work then consists of progressively fostering new, more secure emotional and relational experiences.

Trauma and relational wounds

Some suffering is linked to clearly identifiable events: an accident, assault, bereavement, separation. Other suffering is rooted in more diffuse, repeated experiences: emotional insecurity, emotional neglect, family tensions, a sense of loneliness, an unpredictable environment. These are referred to as complex or relational traumas.

In both cases, lived experiences can leave a lasting imprint on the brain, the body, emotions, and relationships. Therapeutic work aims to progressively ease the emotional burden linked to certain experiences, to better understand how you function, and to develop new, more stable emotional and relational reference points.

Practical details

Consultations are available for adults, couples, adolescents, and children. They take place in person in Marseille or via teleconsultation, in French and in English.

Related resources

Depending on your situation, you may wish to consult the following pages:

EMDR – Understanding how the reprocessing of difficult memories can support psychological healing.
Trauma – Better understanding the consequences of simple or complex psychological trauma.
Attachment – Understanding how the brain gradually learns whether it can rely on the presence of others.
Borderline Personality Disorder – Understanding the difficulties of emotional and relational regulation.
Anxiety – Understanding the mechanisms of worry, hypervigilance, and panic attacks.
Depression – Exploring the link between psychological exhaustion, loss of momentum, and a sense of disconnection.
Couples Therapy – Understanding relational dynamics and attachment difficulties within the couple.
Consultations – Practical information on consultations in Marseille or via teleconsultation.