Publications

Insomnia is not a matter of discipline or good lifestyle habits. It can affect people who are very organized, very reasonable, who “do everything right.” What happens at night is often a reflection of what is happening during the day — or of what one hasn’t had the time, or the opportunity, to process. What insomnia may be signaling There are several forms of insomnia: difficulty falling asleep, repeated awakenings during the night, or waking very early and being unable to fa

You say yes when you mean no. You apologise before you've even done anything wrong. You sense what others need before they've asked — and you rearrange yourself to meet it. You're reliably available, endlessly accommodating. And somewhere along the way, you've stopped knowing what you actually want. This is people-pleasing. And it's exhausting in a very particular way — because from the outside, it often looks like kindness. When being "easy" becomes a survival strategy Peopl

There's this anxiety that surges when someone takes too long to reply to a message. This tendency to over-invest in relationships out of fear they might end. This feeling of unbearable emptiness when someone pulls away. The fear of abandonment is one of the most widespread emotional wounds — and one of the most misunderstood. The fear of abandonment is not just the fear of being left The fear of abandonment isn't simply about dreading the end of a relationship. It's a more fu

You've just been promoted, praised, recognized — and yet, a small voice whispers that it's all a mistake. That others will eventually figure it out. That you didn't really deserve any of it. If this feels familiar, you're not alone: this is what's known as impostor syndrome. What is impostor syndrome? The term was introduced in 1978 by psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes to describe a paradoxical phenomenon: people who are objectively competent and accomplished, yet

Some breakups take a few weeks to get over. Others last months — waking you in the middle of the night, seeping into every corner of your life. Breakups that feel disproportionate, even to yourself. Why do some separations cause so much damage? The answer doesn't lie in the length of the relationship, or in the "logic" of what happened. It often runs much deeper. A breakup is never just a breakup When a relationship ends, it isn't only a person you lose. It's a version of you

You sleep eight hours and wake up tired. You take a long weekend and come back depleted. You cancel plans because you simply do not have the energy, and then feel guilty about it, which takes up the little energy you had left. If this is familiar, you are not alone — and this is not simply about sleep. The kind of tired that rest cannot fix There is a specific type of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much you sleep. It is the exhaustion that comes from living at odd

Paris was supposed to be the adventure. The career move, the life change, the city that would make everything feel more alive. And for a while, maybe it was. But somewhere between the long commutes, the French administrative maze, the pressure to perform at work while simultaneously figuring out a foreign culture — something started to crack. Burnout among expats in Paris is more common than it might seem. And it tends to be particularly invisible, because from the outside, l

Moving to Paris is a dream for many. The city, the culture, the way of life — it can feel like an adventure you have been waiting for your whole life. And yet, somewhere along the way, many expats find themselves struggling. With loneliness, identity, language barriers, or simply the weight of rebuilding a life from scratch. When that happens, finding psychological support can feel like just another obstacle. Where do you even begin? Why therapy as an expat can be different L

You cry easily. You feel other people's emotions as if they were your own. You need more time to recover after a demanding day. You have probably been told at some point that you are "too sensitive", that you take things too much to heart. But what if this sensitivity were not a flaw to be corrected — but simply a way of being in the world that deserves to be better understood? High sensitivity is not a disorder. But when it goes unrecognised, it can be a source of real and l