La Salamandre
Couple and family counselling
(Hypno)therapy and workshop
The salamander goes through fire; we go through trials. When the salamander is wounded, its limbs grow back and it emerges unscathed. In myths, it represents REGENERATION. This is the purpose of our activities, no matter what the initial problem is or what makes you want to improve your relationships and/or communication.
My approach is essentially humanistic and based on the theories of Carl Rogers and Thomas Gordon. The emphasis is on listening with kindness, empathy, unconditional acceptance and non-judgment, so that everyone can develop their self-love and their own resources. The analysis of what happens at the relational level during the sessions enables the adjustment of relationships with loved ones on a daily basis.
Theoretical foundations of my training are also based on existential psychotherapy (the search for the meaning of life and death, Yalom), the analytic current (Freud, Jung, Ferenczi), the systemic current (Elkaïm), the contextual approach (Boszormenyi-Nagy), the narrative approach, and co-creative therapy (Quebec current).
I added conversational trauma hypnosis (CTH) to these foundations after realising that couples’ problems often stem from the fact that one person’s deepest wound awakens and rubs up against the other person’s deepest wound. Hypnosis allows us to heal the traumas of each member of the couple, so that we can rediscover greater serenity and openness in our exchanges.
« The crisis allows for growth »
Florence Bergé
Like you, I’m a salamander who’s experienced some setbacks…
I’m a couple and family counsellor, a psychotherapist, a hypnotherapist for trauma and blockages;
I’m a human being, a wife, a lover and an admiring mother;
a former teacher of Dutch and English;
an author of 1.5 novels, short stories, the translation of a novel, and the co-author of a collective novel written at the workshop;
I’m also a dreamer, passionate about you and the imaginary world.
Would you like to discover a few pages of my story, a story that has transformed me over the years?
If you have a moment, I invite you to dive with me into the blue waters of my past, where every wave has left its mark on the sands of my life.
Born from two loving parents, I was a little girl with wide open eyes and ears for … Read further
Our activities
Couple and family counselling
Couple and family counselling is defined as psychological support for the individual, the couple or the family, whether the difficulty is relational, affective, sexual or parental. Individual or couple consultations.
Personal therapy
Counselling sesssions and/or RTP conversational hypnosis for life difficulties, unhappiness, failure, bereavement, relationship problems, confusion, anxiety, loss of desire or energy, etc. HP or disabled people welcome.
Tools
In addition to the humanistic (CCA), existential, systemic and analytical approach, we can call upon other helping tools, such as the genogram, Eriksonian hypnosis, RTP conversational hypnosis, sculpting, symbolisation, storytelling, haptonomy and haptosynesis.
Training and workshops
Taking care of oneself can also mean learning and sharing new tools… Relationships, couple and family, communication, active listening, respect for others and for oneself, self-expression, personality, these are the themes at the heart of our training courses.