Online sessions
Adults and couples, in English or in French. A link in your browser, and nothing to install.
Working online isn't a watered-down version of sitting in a room together. It's a different setting with its own advantages: you're at home, in your own surroundings, and there's no journey and no waiting room.
Plenty of people find they talk more easily this way. Others would rather be in the room. Both are true, and there's nothing stopping you from trying.
Who it's for
Adults and couples. I don't see children or teenagers online. With them the work runs through play, drawing and other kinds of mediation, and none of that survives a screen — so they're seen at home instead.
What actually happens
We agree a time and you get a link. Open it in your browser when the session starts — that's the whole procedure. Nothing to install, no account to make, and it works on a phone as well as a computer.
The service I use is kMeet, run by a Swiss host and built for confidential conversations. Switzerland holds a European adequacy decision, so your data stays inside a framework equivalent to French law.
Sessions are never recorded, by me or by the software. Nothing that's said is kept.
At your end you'll want a decent connection and a room where nobody will walk in. Beyond that, arrange it however suits you.
If the connection drops we try again, and that nearly always settles it. If it really won't hold, we sort something out between us there and then.
If you live far from home
I've worked with people living abroad since 2018. Most come for the reasons anyone comes: a hard stretch, some work on themselves, a question that's been waiting years for attention. Living abroad is only the backdrop. It explains why you're looking for someone on a screen rather than round the corner.
Sometimes, though, it's the whole matter. What tends to come up: the loneliness you won't let yourself name, because you're meant to be lucky to be here. The partner who came along and gave up a job, a language and every familiar face, without anyone quite noticing. Children growing up between two countries, neither of which is obviously theirs. Illness and death handled from six thousand miles away. And going home, which usually goes worse than leaving did, and gets talked about far less.
Either is reason enough. You don't have to work out which one you are before you write.
Times and time zones
I work Monday to Friday, by appointment. Wherever you are, we'll find an hour that suits us both. Wide gaps don't put me off, and I'll take an odd hour at my end if that's what makes it possible.
Sessions run 45 minutes or an hour. An hour is better for a first session, and for couples every time.
English, French, or both
I work in both, and we often move between them inside a single session.
When English is the language you live in, it usually arrives first: it's direct, it goes for the point. A mother tongue does something else — it describes, it hesitates, it says the thing beside the thing you meant. Both are useful, and rarely in the same minute.
If you'd rather read all this in French, the French version of this site covers the same ground.
A first conversation
It shows whether I can be useful to you, and settles a time that works in your zone. Nothing follows from it unless you want it to.