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Children often express their frustrations, worries and distress through unusual behaviors or symptomatic physical manifestations.
Fear of the dark, sadness, bedwetting, restlessness, or aggression are symptoms that can appear temporarily during events encountered by the child: birth of a younger sibling, parents' separation, loss of a grandparent, bullying, etc.
Allowing them to see a psychologist and express what they are experiencing can help alleviate the symptoms.
Whether your child needs support with behavioural difficulties, anxiety, emotional regulation, or social challenges, I provide tailored one-on-one sessions. As part of this work we might explore together the child and parents' attachment patterns, and its reasons.
My approach is gentle, respectful, and tailored to each child’s needs. Sessions are designed to help children express themselves in a safe and supportive environment, often using play, conversation, and creative activities.
Adolescence
Adolescence is a stage of life that is particularly dear to me. Although it can be challenging both for adolescents themselves and for those around them, it represents a special time of growth and transformation.
During this time adolescents must not only face the adult world - for which they are not fully prepared - but, simultaneoulsy they must distance themselves from the childhood world, where their needs were met and their roles clearly defined.
In their search for independence and autonomy, the adolescent often faces their inability to meet all these new demands and contradictions. This struggle may lead them to turn to adults (or peers) in search of reassurance and support.
Acting Out
The need of certain adolescents to brutally reject their parents creates in these individuals profound difficulties in their relationships with themselves, expressed in a more or less intense way.
The psychological conflicts they experience in an exacerbated way are likely to lead the adolescent to favor action over the passivity that so much distresses them.
This acting out may be directed toward others or turned against oneself.
Self-destruction and violence thus appear as an attempt to gain control: control over one's body, over one's life, or over the life of another.
The adolescent suffering is expressed often in attacks on the body, such as cutting, and on their internal world, such as addictive behaviors, anorexia, and suicide - witnesses of a destructiveness that disrupt and unsettles the environment.
In search of identity and recognition, it is often through the body that the adolescent cries out their suffering, often the expression of the familly' suffering hidden.