The French mental health system is French-language by default, and finding depth-oriented therapy in English, something past CBT and short-term structured work, is genuinely difficult. The psychoanalytic tradition is strong here but conducted almost entirely in French. The handful of English-speaking therapists doing real depth work are concentrated in Paris and often fully booked.
I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in France. Relationship difficulties, a low that won't lift, something specific you've been avoiding, the question of whether this life is actually the one you want. Whether you've been here six months or six years.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
Being in France
France has its own texture for outsiders. There's the language question, which is never just about vocabulary: it's about whether you can fully be yourself in French, or whether some part of you stays flattened because your inner life is in English. There's the social world, which can take years to actually enter and never quite feels as open as the surface warmth might suggest.
Couples who moved here together sometimes find that France works differently for each of them: one person thriving, one person quietly going under, both pretending it's fine. That asymmetry is worth naming before it becomes the structure of the relationship.
If any of this is part of what brings you, we can work with it directly. If what you're dealing with is something else entirely, that's fine.
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.