English-speaking psychotherapist in Paris.
There is a particular difficulty in looking for a therapist in a city that is not entirely yours.
You may speak good French and still find that the things that matter most arrive in English, or in another language altogether, or in none. I am a psychologist and psychodynamic psychotherapist, and I offer therapy in English in Paris, in the Marais, and online, for individuals and couples.
A large part of my practice is international. People come to me after a move, a promotion, a separation or a loss, or simply after the slow realisation that life here has become heavier than they expected, and that the usual ways of carrying it have stopped working.
Begin with a first conversationLiving
abroad.
Some arrive with something they can name: anxiety that has started to run the day, grief that did not finish, a relationship that has gone quiet or turned sharp. Others arrive with something harder to describe. A sense of living slightly beside their own life. Of being competent everywhere except where it counts.
Living abroad adds its own weight. The family is far away, or too close by phone. The friendships are newer and thinner. A partner may be the only person who knows you in your own language, and that is a great deal to ask of one person.
None of this is pathology. It is what happens when a life is built across borders, and it deserves a careful place to be thought about.
"Human beings do not change in isolation. We change in relation."
— Relational IntegrityInternational clients and expats in Paris.
Living between cultures raises particular questions, ones worth taking seriously rather than treating as background noise.
Identity and belonging
The question of who one is when the cultural scaffolding shifts. Which version of yourself survives the crossing?
Multilingual inner life
The self that speaks differently in different languages. What gets lost in translation, and what the other language holds.
Cultural shame
The internalised judgements that travel with you, sometimes more burdensome than the ones you encounter abroad.
Attachment in displacement
How relationships form differently when you know you might leave, or when those you love already have.
Professional identity abroad
The gap between who you were and who the new context allows you to be. Competence that does not transfer.
Online therapy for international clients
Working across time zones and countries, for those not based in Paris or who prefer remote sessions.
Relational and
psychodynamic.
We pay attention to what hurts now, and also to the patterns that keep returning: in how you love, how you work, how you leave and how you stay. The relationship between us is part of the work. What happens in the room often shows, quietly, what happens elsewhere.
Sessions last fifty minutes, usually once a week. The work is not time-limited by default; it goes as far as you want to take it. I do not offer structured programmes or quick protocols. I offer a consistent, honest and thoughtful space, and the attention of someone trained to notice what is not yet being said.
I work in English, French and Greek. Some people use one language throughout. Others move between two, and the moment of switching is often where something important lives. You do not need to choose in advance.
In Paris and onlineThe consulting room is at 9 rue Saint-Merri, Paris 4e, a few minutes from the Centre Pompidou and Hôtel de Ville. For people elsewhere in France or abroad, or between two countries, sessions also take place by secure video. Many clients combine the two.
CouplesI also see couples in English, including international couples where each partner grew up in a different language and a different idea of what love should look like.
Couples therapy in EnglishThe first
conversation.
The first conversation lasts thirty minutes and is free, in person or by video. We talk. You tell me what brings you, as much or as little as you like. I tell you what I hear and what I think I might be able to offer. Then you decide.
I reply to every message within one business day.
Write to me