ABOUT
Commitment to others, heightened awareness, and a sense of empathy that is earned, not performed.
Origins
My roots in the French countryside still shape how I practise today.
I grew up in the France, on a modest, old-fashioned farm, in a place where tomorrow was never a given. The repeated seasonal work and the unpredictable rhythms of farm life showed me that effort and continuity were central to everyday life. It was also a setting rooted in inherited values, where what mattered was often achieved through steady, consistent practice. With material resources scarce, I came to understand how essential bonds between people are.
Those years gave me depth, perspective, and a groundedness I haven't had to manufacture. This is why I recognise the weight of uncertainty about the future when others carry it, and why I hold every patient's right to a better outcome as a matter of social justice.
Clinical practice
My clinical training and practice have spanned more than fifteen years.
After two years of supervised clinical work, I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist with distinction in 2012. Soon after, I joined a state-funded community mental health centre, comparable to an NHS Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). There, I spent nearly a decade providing psychotherapy, clinical support, and counselling to a broad adult population, including patients with complex psychiatric needs. The service offered open access to care, accepting both professional referrals and self-referrals regardless of clinical condition or social circumstances, closely reflecting my own values and providing exceptionally broad clinical experience. Within the same service context, I developed extensive experience of interdisciplinary collaboration with psychiatrists, GPs, social workers, and other healthcare professionals, while also contributing to psychological assessments and expert reports requested by public authorities.
Alongside this clinical work, I undertook six years of personal psychoanalysis, which deepened my reflective practice and my understanding of the therapeutic process. I also served as a clinical field trainer for psychologists in training, supporting and validating their clinical development. Across these years, I worked with a wide range of psychological difficulties with steadiness, attentiveness, and genuine care.
Since moving to the UK in 2020, I have continued in private clinical practice in London. That breadth of experience, combined with ongoing clinical work, remains central to how I practise today.
Academic work
My clinical work has always developed in close dialogue with academic and research work.
Research and academic work improve clinical practice in the consulting room. I am currently a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader at the University of Roehampton, where I designed BSc and MA programmes in counselling and clinical psychology, lead modules, teach, supervise trainee counselling psychologists, and conduct research focused on improving prevention strategies and therapeutic outcomes.
This position rests on a longer academic background: a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Queen Mary University of London examining the impact of inflammation on mental health in chronic illness; a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Lorraine, focusing on the psychological impact of childbirth and obstetric interventions, which shaped my interest in perinatal and women’s mental health; and an ongoing Associate Lecturer position at the University of Lorraine, where I teach and supervise the research work of postgraduate clinical psychologists.
Alongside this, I have worked to bring academic knowledge directly to professionals and institutions through training engagements with the French national training body for public sector workers (CNFPT) and the regional public health and prevention body in Lorraine (IREPS). At IREPS, I also held a Board position contributing to mental health policy and institutional practice in the Grand-Est region.
Taken together, this continued involvement ensures that the work I offer in the consulting room is never based solely on what I once learned.
My commitment to mental health support
Through clinical work, teaching & training and the academic development of mental health knowledge, a single aim: better mental health for all.