English-speaking couples therapy in France is difficult to find outside Paris, and even in Paris the options for depth-oriented work are limited. The psychoanalytic tradition here is strong but conducted almost entirely in French.
I work with couples who need to work in English and are living in France. France has a particular effect on couples who moved here together: the person who pushed for the move is often doing better than the person who followed, and neither of them wants to say it. The asymmetry is real and it has weight.
Sometimes one person is thriving, one person is going under, and the relationship is holding the whole thing. Couples work is about making that visible rather than waiting for it to become a crisis.
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
For couples in France: the language question runs through the relationship in ways that don't always get named. One partner may be more fluent, which shifts power in daily life in ways that accumulate. One person may have found a social world, the other may still be waiting for France to open. The beauty of the context doesn't resolve any of that.
What couples bring to online therapy
Couples I work with come for recurring conflict, communication problems, infidelity and broken trust, emotional distance, codependency, resentment, sexless marriage, attachment issues, and the strain of major life transitions. Online marriage counseling and relationship therapy in English make it possible to do this work without geographic limits, whether you need a couples therapist, a marriage counselor, or relationship counseling that goes deeper than communication exercises.
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.