MY CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY BACKGROUND
Pain, Stress & Anxiety Healing
Licensed in Belgium, I help individuals living in Europe put down the weight they carry alone, in all confidentiality, and find tools on their own time to respond to their suffering and mental distress, then learn techniques to face any future difficulties.
Welcoming You For…
- Burnout (parental, work, medical or personal)
- Neurodivergence (giftedness, autism, AD(H)D, Hypersensitivity; HQE…)
- Chronic pain
- Parenting & Support of parents of children with disabilities or learning difficulties
- Chronic illnesses (diabetes, heart conditions, IBS, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, adenomyosis, …)
- Anxiety management
- Stress management
- Emotional regulation and management (anger, sadness, fear…)
- Mindset & mental resilience
- Negative thoughts & ruminations
- Adaptation difficulties (Relocation, PCS, Immigration)
- Work/life balance
- Communication difficulties
- Self-esteem & self confidence
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans
Belgium-Licensed Clinical Psychologist (MSc. Psy, CBT, “Psychologue clinicienne agréée”)
A Certified Health & Wellbeing Coach with Wellcoaches, USA, I also am a Master’s Graduate in Clinical Psychology (Cum Laude) with a specialisation in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies (CBT) from UCL, Belgium. I am Board registered with the Clinician “Visa” and the Clinical Licensure (“Agrément”) in Belgium, and thus licensed to practice anywhere in Europe. I am also an active member of the UPPCF (Union of French-speaking Professional Clinical Psychologists). This gives me another perspective on my work with patients suffering from illness, pain or burnout.
As a Belgian-American dual citizen living in Florida, I contract under my Belgian licensure as a counselor to provide free services, thanks to the patronage of organizations such as the Wounded Warrior Project, and bring mental health support to US veterans stationed in Europe.
In my coaching practice or during my consultations, I will meet you where you are with respect, warmth and kindness. However I will partner with you to uncover your needs and strengths, and overcome blocages and challenges, or unhelpful negative thoughts. I will empower you to reduce stress and ruminations, build mental resilience and experiment with more efficient coping strategies.
I look forward to share with you tools and strategies to improve your mental wellbeing.
My approach to care
My mission is to help you take back control over your life and health, both mentally and physically to recreate a life full of energy, passion and joy.
I believe in an approach that is holistic, including all aspects of a person: mind, body, spirit and emotions. My approach is also integrative, meaning it includes methodologies and tools from a variety of approaches, in addition to my clinical orientation in cognitive & behaviors therapy.
My sessions are solution-focused and strength-based. As indicated or requested, I will share with you science-backed techniques and therapeutic tools rooted in empirical evidence that may include:
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT)
- Neurosciences
- Mindfulness, Heart coherence and Progressive Relaxation
- Nutrition (FODMAP, anti-inflammatory nutrition)
- Coaching: motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry & SMART goals
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/ Tapping)
- Non-Violent Communication
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Positive Psychology concepts
- Exercise Pacing
- Somatic tracking and Pain Reprocessing Therapy
- Biofeedback for pain
COGNITIVE & BEHAVIORAL STRATEGIES
What is CBT?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a short therapy that focuses on the interactions between thoughts, emotions and behaviors. It utilizes many techniques and tools that help the patient to recognize disrupting cognitive patterns and inadaptive behaviors that feed the mental distress on one hand, and to learn and practice usefull new skills that help them face future difficulties on the other hand.
In the course of treatment, hte patient will reduce distress, inadaptative behaviors and negative thoughts by noticing disrupting patterns of thoughts that are the source of the behaviors and feed or accentuate emotional distress. The patient will also experiment or reinforce more adaptative behaviors.
TCC is the most scientifically validated psychotherapeutic approach, and has proven its efficacy for over 30 years. It is considered the best treatment approach for many conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, phobias and chronic pain. It is also one of the rare approaches that has proven to be as efficient in teleconsultation than in-person.
As there are other therapeutic approaches that are most beneficial to my patients depending on the circumstances, I have trained myself in several other therapeutic modalities, including coaching, for which I am certified in the USA.
Online Psychology Consult for Europeans
- Please be aware that as a Clinical Psychologist licensed in Belgium, due to current US licensure laws, I cannot work with Americans living in the United States. I work online through Practice Better, a HIPPAA compliant platform, and provide therapy remotely to all French or English-speakers located in the rest of the world, in particular American soldiers and their families stationed in Europe, and international workers and expats.
- My life, health, pain and burnout coaching programs are however available online to anyone, anywhere. I also offer pain group coaching.
Online Sessions Rates ($)
- Veterans referred by Centerstone: FREE
- Pain Reprocessing Therapy session (PRT): $100/ weekly 75min. session – $130 for initial 90 min. session
- 60min. Psychological consult: $110
For coaching program rates see program pages and plan prices
Training
- 2025 Pain Reprocessing Therapy Advanced Practitioner Certification (CRP), Pain Reprocessing Institute
- 2025 Crisis Response & Prevention, Strong Star Training Initiative
- 2024 How to Reduce Chronic Pain, Dr Howard Schubiner, NICABM
- 2024 PsychoPhysiological Disorder (PPD)Advanced Course: diagnostic and treatment, PPDA
- 2024 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Dr Dawn-Elise Snipes, All CEUS
- 2023 Emotion-focused Therapy, Prof Leslie Greenberg; Asadis
- 2023 Chronic Pain in Adults: A Cognitive Behavioural Perspective for Assessment and Treatment, by Prof Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
- 2023 Pain Science Masterclass, Dr Zoffness, USA
- 2023 Pain Management Series, Stanford University, USA
- 2022: Continued Ed: Trauma-Informed CBT, Robert Lusk, PhD
- 2021: WellCoaches® Health & Wellbeing Coach Certification, USA
- 2020: University course, The Grip of Grief
- 2019: University course, Herbal Medicine (University of Maryland, USA)
- 2011-2022: Continued education: EFT & Tapping, EMDR, Non-violent Communication
- 2010: Infant/Toddler Developmental Specialist, Department of Health, USA
- 2007: MS in Psychology, equivalency, USA
- 2005: Master/license in Clinical Psychology, specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (UCL, Belgium)
Clinical experience
While I was in college in Belgium, as part of my thesis on “The Use of Animal-assisted Therapies for Children” I landed my first practicum experience in clinical psychology at a daytime psychiatric center for children, where I worked with children suffering from psychiatric conditions and behavioral difficulties and introduced them to hippotherapy. For my second practicum I was accepted in a therapeutic program in in the Florida Keys, in the United States, in a dolphin-assisted therapy program, where I worked with children and adolescents as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Once I moved to the United States, I worked nights at a mental health crisis center before becoming an Early Literacy Consultant and Mentor in kindergarten facilities in the Florida Keys. Later I worked as an Infant/Toddler Developmental Specialist, providing one-on-one play therapy and counsulting in particular with the families and childcare providers of children on the autism spectrum or with behavioral difficulties. Finally, I also served as a School Psychologist in schools in Colorado, where I performed diagnostic psychological assessments (IQ tests, behavioral assessments) for children with learning difficulties, developmental delays or High Intellectual Potential.
Today a dual citizen, mother of two, both diagnosed as gifted, I currently live on the East Coast of Florida, after 5 years of Permanent Change of Station in Vilseck/Grafenwoehr, Bavaria, Germany. With my practice I consult online with coaching clients from all around the world. I also still offer free psychological services through the Wounded Warrior Project, in order to help veterans living in Europe who suffer from PTSD as they return to civilian life after years of service for their Nation.
In my Coaching practice, I specialize in particular in supporting people who suffer from burnout and / or chronic illnesses and pain. I help them tame symptoms and reduce flare-ups, burnout and pain and put in place tools and strategies to regain energy, motivation and rebuild a life full of joy.
"I attract in my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, wether positive or negative.” —Michael Losier