Are you experiencing difficulties at work, in your couple, with your children? You have a hard time falling asleep, your anxiety prevents you from moving forward? You wish to change that situation? The Brief Therapy Practice offers individual, couple and family sessions following the Systemic and Strategic Brief Therapy intervention model. It focuses on where the difficulties present themselves and that you wish to solve. The sessions can be conducted in French or English
The « Systemic and Strategic Brief Therapy » is a non normative, non pathologizing psycho- relational approach. The approach uses a communication process oriented towards problem resolutions brought about by the client.« The therapist focuses on the behaviors that are causing the problem. She does not ask how the problem started but rather how it is persisting. The therapist will aim at stopping the behaviors which tend to maintain the problem in place. She will also be attentive to the behavioral interactions and will strive to stop those which tend maintain the problem instead of solving it. These « paradoxal » interventions reveal the interactional componant of any mental health issue. Indeed, a symptom is not only an individual one but one belonging to a human system » .
Caroline is trained at the GB institute in Brief Therapy. After 5 years experience in working as a corporate consultant and counsellor in the area of workplace suffering, she decides to open up her own private practice to enlarge her frame of competences and serve a wider client base. My academic background is in social and pedagogical studies. I graduated from the Lausanne School of Social and Pedagogical Studies in 2004 as a social care worker. I worked in Lausanne Hospital psychiatry ward and in Fribourg city administration for the guardianship department. During that time, I met the Director of the GB Institute during a conference. This encounter sparks up my interest in brief systemic and strategic therapy. This approach gives me more tools in my work as a social care assistant. I decide to follow the introductory sessions. As I continue to study the approach, I realise that it is more than a simple tool, it is an interactional way of apprehending difficulties that people come across in life. And it dramatically changed the way I was looking at problems myself. I then decided to complete the training and become a Gregory Bateson therapist in order to support people coming from all walks of life dealing with their own problems and life difficulties: work related, family, couple, anxiety, phobia, and lost into what to do to solve those problems.
I am married and mother of two child. I am very grateful to be living in this astonishing region. I am from Valais originally. I love the mountains and the endless hiking possibilities in winter and summer time. I have travelled in Latin America, South Africa and Asia which allowed me to discover impressive landscapes and cultures unlike my own.
The session rate is 120 CHF.For people encountering financial difficulties, an adapted rate could be negociated.
A session is approximately one hour long, the number of appointment will depend on the situation but wont exceed 10 if no significantly change.
The session frequency will depend on the situation and progressively increase as the symptoms start improving.
I'm pleased to share the office with other psychologists using different approach :