Types of services
- Counselling, psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families.
- Possibility of psychological evaluations and reports under my oversight.
- Neurosensory processes training with the Alfred Tomatis listening training method. Not to be confused with renting commercial devices. Please check everything about the method here.
- Difficulties related to depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance abuse, eating disorders, traumas, migration, conflictual relationships and mental illnesses.
Languages spoken: English, French and Spanish.
Length, time, frequency and cost of sessions
Psychotherapy meetings last 50mn for individuals, 90 mn for couples, every week or two depending on stated needs and goals.
A listening training round lasts a total of 48 to 70 hours over a period of three to six months, with regular follow-up meetings and listening tests.
The cost of psychotherapy with me is covered by private swiss insurances covering psychotherapy by psychologists as well as some international insurances.
The cost of the psychotherapeutic listening training according to Dr. Alfred Tomatis is covered by some swiss private complementary insurances for empirical medicine.
The Alfred Tomatis listening training
Dr Alfred Tomatis (1920–2001) was an ENT physician and researcher. He was the first to study the links between the sensory variables of hearing (audio), those of the psyche (psycho) and those of expression, especially of the voice (phono) — a discipline he named audio-psycho-phonology. His research led him to distinguish hearing from listening: listening is closely correlated with energy, posture, attention, concentration, memory, the integration of cognitive, sensory, motor and emotional information, synchronisation and discernment. One can hear without listening, and listen well while barely hearing.
To restore the brain’s full potential for listening, Dr Tomatis invented an instrument — the electronic ear — which gently retrains the ear and the central nervous system. In adults, this training facilitates psychotherapy: it soothes, improves listening and balance, brings buried memories back to the surface, and trains organisation and discernment. It is a valuable complement to psychotherapy, and is particularly useful in chronic complex trauma, or when psychotherapy seems to stop being useful.
How it unfolds. Everything begins with a listening test, which highlights the frequencies that unconsciously capture our attention (between 125 and 8000 Hz, on the right and the left, by bone and air conduction). It is not an audiometric test as performed by an ENT doctor; it is interpreted to help understand one little-known origin of our psychological difficulties and, if relevant, to design a training plan.
The first round is an intensive stage of about 30 hours of neurosensory training under the electronic ear, carried out at the office, at the most sustained rhythm possible — on average around 6 to 8 hours per week. Nothing is required of you but to wear the headphones: you can sleep, draw or do puzzles. This phase is followed by a pause of a few weeks, which allows the training to be assimilated. The following rounds are half as long (about 15 hours), repeated, with a pause of a few weeks between stages. Each person evolves at their own pace.
Please note. For psychologically fragile or traumatised people, the Tomatis approach sets off an associative brain process that may bring back past memories and emotions, sometimes months or even years later. In such cases it is essential to be accompanied by a psychologist-psychotherapist experienced in trauma therapy.