I support humanitarian workers operating in high-pressure environments to move beyond a state of constant alert and regain a sense of security in their bodies, minds and personal lives.
An approach centred on trauma, the body & a return to safety
In humanitarian work, we learn to cope. But we don’t always learn to let go.
Over time, what you’ve been through may continue to manifest itself: in your body, in your sleep, in tension, in the difficulty you have in feeling completely safe, even when the circumstances have changed.
My approach integrates the psychological, the physical and the intimate.
I use EMDR to reprocess significant experiences, and somatic and sexocorporal work to allow the body to release what remains on high alert, sometimes beyond words.
Because trauma does not end with the event.
It can continue to be felt in the nervous system, in emotions, and in your relationship with yourself and others.
The aim is not to erase what you have experienced,
but to transform the way it affects you today.
To regain a sense of safety.
To be able to truly rest.
To reconnect with your body, your emotions, and your intimacy.
I am not trying to ‘fix’ you.
I support you so that your system can gradually regain what it has lost along the way: the ability to feel safe.
The support adapts to your pace, your story and your circumstances. It is a space where you can slow down, let go… and rebuild, step by step.
My background
For over ten years, I have worked in contexts of armed conflict and humanitarian crises: Ukraine, Nigeria, the DRC, South Sudan and Myanmar.
There, I supported people facing violence, forced displacement and sexual violence, as well as frontline professionals exposed to extreme situations.
These experiences have given me an insider’s understanding of the realities on the ground:
the pressure, the intensity, the need to keep going — sometimes at one’s own expense.
In Canada, I have also worked in emergency response, liaising with the police and the justice system, supporting victims of sexual violence and criminal acts.
Over time, one thing became clear:
trauma is not confined solely to memory.
It is embedded in the body, in the tensions, in the difficulty of letting go, of feeling safe, of living life to the full.
This is what led me to adopt an approach that connects the body and the psyche, particularly through sexocorporal work.
Today, I work in particular with aid workers who have learnt to cope in extreme situations… but whose bodies have not yet found peace.
Because you don’t have to carry the weight of what you’ve seen, experienced or witnessed alone.
