For about twenty years I worked as a childcare provider, and I kept noticing the same thing: people — little ones and grown-ups alike — do better when someone takes their inner world seriously.

About ten years ago I lived through relational trauma of my own. I started a support group, got pulled deeper into this work, and eventually earned my MSW with distinction. It stopped being a career plan and became the thing I actually wanted to do.

I grew up in Eastern France, shaped as much by Sartre, Camus, and Foucault as by any textbook. I don’t see people’s struggles as a malfunction to be fixed, and I’m skeptical of over-pathologizing what are often normal responses to genuinely hard situations.

Honest about who you’re getting: I read philosophy and comic books, I think out loud, and I treat you as the authority on your own life. My job is to think alongside you — not to hand you a verdict.

Credentials & training

• LSWAIC (Washington State) · MSW, with distinction
• EMDR Basic Training
• PGAP certification (Progressive Goal Attainment Program)
• Draws on EMDR, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, ACT, DBT, CBT, and Solution-Focused approaches
• Evening & weekend hours · English & French