At one time or another, we all go through darker, more complex periods, when everyday life becomes more difficult to bear. A bereavement, a break-up, a professional change, an illness, a family conflict, a burn-out… These events can upset our equilibrium, bring up deep emotions, or simply leave us lost in the face of the
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Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025
For a long time, going to see a psychologist in Luxembourg was surrounded by taboos. Fortunately, attitudes are changing, and more and more people recognize the importance of taking care of their mental health as much as their physical health. Yet many still hesitate to take the plunge, often because they think “it’s not that
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Apr 16, 2025
How Somatic Experiencing Can Help You Heal: 3 Simple Ways As a psychologist in Luxembourg, I am offering Somatic Experiencing sessions. Somatic Experiencing (often called SE) is a gentle, body-based approach to healing stress and trauma. It was developed by Dr. Peter Levine, who discovered that our bodies often hold on to past experiences—even long
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Apr 14, 2025
What is Trauma? Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that can have lasting effects on a person’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It occurs when an individual is overwhelmed by events or circumstances that exceed their ability to cope, leaving them feeling helpless, isolated, or profoundly unsafe. While trauma is a common part
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Apr 11, 2025
Anxiety is one of the reasons people seek a psychologist in Luxembourg. Have you been struggling with anxiety and despite all your efforts can’t stop it? Perhaps you event developed avoidant strategies to not face your anxieties, to no avail. Or maybe you changed your behaviours in order to control your anxieties as much as
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Apr 1, 2025
En tant que Psychologue au Luxembourg j’intègre différentes approches adaptées aux besoins du client. La Somatic Experiencing est l’une d’entre elles. L’apport de la psychologie somatique est, à mon avis, crucial dans le cadre de la thérapie du traumatisme.Le traumatisme est une réponse psychologique et physiologique complexe à des événements traumatisants, qui peut laisser des empreintes émotionnelles et physiques
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Apr 1, 2025
My practice as a Psychologist in Luxembourg uses Somatic Experiencing, and consists of the integration of different approaches tailored to the client’s needs. One of them is, in my opinion, crucial in the context of trauma therapy. Trauma is a complex psychological and physiological response to distressing events that can leave lasting emotional and physical
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Mar 17, 2025
Experienced trauma has the capacity to impact our daily lives and our understanding of the present moment. The explicit and implicit memories of our past greatly influence the impact that trauma can have on us. While explicit memory is expressed more clearly and has a more obvious meaning, implicit memory is the submerged part of
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Mar 17, 2025
Les traumatismes vécus ont la capacité d’impacter notre quotidien et notre appréhension du moment présent. Les memoire explicite et implicite de notre passé influencent grandement l’impact que le traumatisme peut avoir sur nous. Si la mémoire explicite s’exprime de manière plus claire et trouve un sens plus évident, la mémoire implicite, elle, est la partie
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Jan 24, 2025
Trauma has happened in the past, but still lives in the present of the traumatised personthrough procedural memory, as some of our actions and reactions are automatic. In these uncontrolled behaviours, our traumas are re-enacted unconsciously. This can translate into extreme anxiety, stress, panic attacks and even flashbacks. These reactions we experience are not appropriate
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