A Personal Path to Healing and Helping

My path to becoming a child and adolescent therapist began with my own early experiences.

I lost my father when I was five and a half years old. As the fourth of seven children, I grew up in a large, loving family, raised by a devoted mother who, though a full-time homemaker, had to return to work to support us. From a very young age, I experienced anxiety, sleep disturbances, and episodes of tachycardia physical signs of emotional stress I could not yet understand or articulate.

These early challenges gave me a deep and lasting awareness of children experience emotional pain often in silence, and without the tools to name what they feel.

As an adult, I faced the long-term effects of unresolved childhood wounds: patterns of emotional abandonment and various psychosomatic symptoms. These experiences taught me one fundamental truth : carrying trauma throughout one’s life doesn’t serve us, and healing early is not only possible, it is joyful and freeing.

I’ve also witnessed the impact of emotional suffering in my extended family, including a nephew with autism and the tragic suicide of a young niece. These moments shaped my conviction that early emotional support can transform lives, not only for the child, but for the entire family.

My work is rooted in a respectful, integrative, and child-centered approach, drawing from both traditional and holistic perspectives, while remaining firmly grounded in developmental understanding.

A Parent and Grandparent’s Perspective

I am also the mother of three grown children and the grandmother of five young grandchildren who bring joy and light into my life. Like all parents, I’ve made mistakes. Parenting is not about perfection. It’s about presence, learning and growing alongside our children.

This personal experience continues to shape my therapeutic work. It reminds me every day that change is always possible, and that support, when it comes with respect and care, can open the way to deep and lasting transformation.

Why I Do This Work

I chose this path because I know, from both personal and professional experience, how childhood shapes our emotional life and how healing can begin with the smallest of safe spaces.

Today, I offer children and teenagers a warm, structured, and judgment-free space to explore their feelings and experiences. I also support parents as they navigate the challenges of raising emotionally healthy children with clarity, compassion, and practical tools.

My ambition is clear and deeply felt : To help children and their parents learn, understand, adapt, grow, respect others and respect themselves so they can live with more connection, confidence, and emotional balance

My Professional Background

I am a trained psychotherapist with a multidisciplinary foundation in:

• Developmental Psychology

• Educational Psychology

• Psychoanalysis

• Psychoenergetics (Energy Psychology)

• Hypnotherapy

ICurrently, I am expanding my clinical approach through ongoing training in Art therapy and in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), in order to offer even more structured, evidence-based support to children, teens, and their families.