Psychologist

I am an Embellist systemic therapist.

Today, the humanistic approach dominates psychology practices. It rests on an appealing idea: if you welcome a person with enough listening, warmth and non-judgement, they will eventually find their own solutions within themselves. The humanistic approach does not decide, does not guide, does not take a position, so as to let “what needs to emerge” emerge in the patient. Its job is to offer analyses of the patient's reality, analyses generally based on an implicit belief that it is enough to dig into one's suffering and stay permanently in touch with one's so-called “deep self” in order to feel better, without ever transforming the deeper structures, without direction, and above all without aiming for greatness.

But the truth is that it does not work.
Or hardly at all.
People leave sessions relieved, but they are not getting better. Their lives do not change. The patterns come back. The people around them stay the same. Inner conflicts calm down for a while, then resurface. Humanism gives the illusion of improvement, but not the structure for what comes next.

So I built another path: embellism.
It rests on a simple idea: to elevate the individual.
Listening, yes, but not indefinitely. Nor helping them to “accept themselves as they are”. Nor teaching them to tolerate a mediocre environment. But making them clearer, stronger, more aligned. Giving them back their capacity for action, clarity and greatness. The Embellist does not flatter the ego: they organise the ascent.

It is a deeply existentialist stance: you are responsible for surpassing yourself. 

And radically Stoic: you learn to become solid, instead of hoping the world will change to spare you. That is why, every day, I work with all my patients, whatever their issue, to build a path of intelligence and excellence that leads to performance.

Added to this is my systemic stance.
A humanistic psychologist will listen above all to what the individual feels. 

For my part, I seek to understand how it all holds together. 

I analyse the whole structure: the links between lifestyle, thoughts, emotions, decisions, relationship dynamics, and the implicit rules that lock everything in place.

Because, in the vast majority of cases, what is suffering is not the individual :
it is the system in which they are entangled.
And it is this system that I need to decode, restructure and enhance.