My practice
Bonjour,
My therapeutic approach is Person-Centered, attachment-based, and psychodynamic, with a strong emotion-focused and body-aware orientation. I work in a direct yet respectful manner, helping individuals understand not only what they are struggling with but also why specific patterns, emotions, or difficulties recur.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom management, I aim to work with the underlying emotional, relational, and attachment-based processes that shape distress. This often involves gently exploring long-standing ways of coping, relating, or protecting oneself that may once have been necessary but now limit emotional freedom, intimacy, or a sense of self.
My work is informed by Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) principles (currently in core training), alongside broader psychodynamic processes, humanistic and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). While my approach is integrative, I pay close attention to emotional blocks, anxiety, and defensive patterns as they arise in the present moment. This allows emotional material to be approached carefully, at a pace that respects each person’s capacity and nervous system.
In sessions, I attend closely to language, emotional shifts, and somatic cues—such as changes in breath, tension, facial macro-movements, or posture—which often communicate feelings that are difficult to access directly. Working with these cues helps keep therapy grounded, embodied, and connected to lived experience rather than remaining purely intellectual.
At the centre of my work is the therapeutic relationship. I understand therapy to be most effective when there is a genuine sense of safety, trust, and emotional presence, both in the relationship with the therapist and in the relationship a person has with themselves. I aim to meet each client with authenticity, curiosity, and empathic understanding, creating a space where vulnerability can emerge naturally and without pressure. Within a respectful and attuned relationship, difficult experiences can be felt, understood, and integrated in ways that support meaningful and lasting change.
I work non-diagnostically, prioritising understanding over labels, and aim to create a therapeutic space that feels safe, collaborative, and emotionally honest. Therapy is not about forcing change, but about creating the conditions in which change can emerge naturally through understanding, emotional processing, and self-compassion.
Warmly,
Arnaud