Global Massage and Project Consultant
I qualified as a Play Therapist at the Roehampton Institute, London, in 2001. I had been working with abused children in Belgium as an educational carer and continued studying and working in that field in London at the Marlborough Family Service in St John’s Wood, under the supervision of Dr Eia Asen.
At MFS, I worked in the Family Day Unit dealing with intensive treatments of abusive patterns within families. I did my placement for a couple of years as a Trainee Play Therapist doing individual sessions with children and family sessions in the FDU. I then went back to Belgium where I worked for the Centre de Protection de l’Enfant in Gosselies, setting up Family Day Unit, working with multi-family techniques to help change abusive patterns within families.
I then submitted and coordinated, under the supervision of Dr Asen, a Daphne Project funded by the European Commission in 2006 aiming at surveying and developing a European Model of Multifamily Therapy dealing with abuse in families. Project results can be found on the project website: http://www.multifamilyassessment.net
My interest in women and children’s well being is consistent in my life and I am currently co-coordinating a project in Guatemala for Médecins du Monde (“Doctors of the World”) to support and develop a survey on women’s right to health care and women abuse in maquilas. I am also part of the Study Group in transnational projects on women abuse around the Globe for Médecins du Monde.
I thouroughly enjoy running projects in the field of child and women abuse, to improve women and family lives. I have good communication and management skills, which help me deal with various work context, various cultures and languages, I have developed very good adaptation skills and I am happy to do more supervision and management work within that field.
Pregnancy and Birth Preparation
My therapeutic work with children and their parents dealing with emotional issues in my private practice as Play Therapist in Brussels has often brought me to look at their start in life and the impact of events or emotions during pregnancy on child development in relation to the world. I then decided to further study and qualified as a Global Massage Therapist from the Tina Bosi School of Global Massage in Namur, I specialised in Pre-natal, Post-natal and Baby massage.
I have done various shiatsu courses, one of which with Well Mothers, London, in shiatsu-prenatal Massage, which has tought me a lot about appropriate touch and I am now able to work with ‘high risk’ pregnancies to provide release to women for whom pregnancy is not a fairy tale. I have learnt that respectful loving touch is essential in our lives.
I have now completed a 4 year course in Affective Birth Preparation with Brigitte Dhomen, aiming at giving babies and parents a sense of security and self confidence.
Like Osteopathy, yoga and other gentle approaches, affective birth preparation, massage and shiatsu can really help pregnancy be a happy experience in full consciousness.
I also teach parents how to massage their babies and how to help their babies adapt to the reality of their new world.
I coach pregnant women in taking good care of themselves throughout their pregnancy and provides them with both physical and emotional support.
For a Happy Birth is a happy start in life…
At MFS, I worked in the Family Day Unit dealing with intensive treatments of abusive patterns within families. I did my placement for a couple of years as a Trainee Play Therapist doing individual sessions with children and family sessions in the FDU. I then went back to Belgium where I worked for the Centre de Protection de l’Enfant in Gosselies, setting up Family Day Unit, working with multi-family techniques to help change abusive patterns within families.
I then submitted and coordinated, under the supervision of Dr Asen, a Daphne Project funded by the European Commission in 2006 aiming at surveying and developing a European Model of Multifamily Therapy dealing with abuse in families. Project results can be found on the project website: http://www.multifamilyassessment.net
My interest in women and children’s well being is consistent in my life and I am currently co-coordinating a project in Guatemala for Médecins du Monde (“Doctors of the World”) to support and develop a survey on women’s right to health care and women abuse in maquilas. I am also part of the Study Group in transnational projects on women abuse around the Globe for Médecins du Monde.
I thouroughly enjoy running projects in the field of child and women abuse, to improve women and family lives. I have good communication and management skills, which help me deal with various work context, various cultures and languages, I have developed very good adaptation skills and I am happy to do more supervision and management work within that field.
Pregnancy and Birth Preparation
My therapeutic work with children and their parents dealing with emotional issues in my private practice as Play Therapist in Brussels has often brought me to look at their start in life and the impact of events or emotions during pregnancy on child development in relation to the world. I then decided to further study and qualified as a Global Massage Therapist from the Tina Bosi School of Global Massage in Namur, I specialised in Pre-natal, Post-natal and Baby massage.
I have done various shiatsu courses, one of which with Well Mothers, London, in shiatsu-prenatal Massage, which has tought me a lot about appropriate touch and I am now able to work with ‘high risk’ pregnancies to provide release to women for whom pregnancy is not a fairy tale. I have learnt that respectful loving touch is essential in our lives.
I have now completed a 4 year course in Affective Birth Preparation with Brigitte Dhomen, aiming at giving babies and parents a sense of security and self confidence.
Like Osteopathy, yoga and other gentle approaches, affective birth preparation, massage and shiatsu can really help pregnancy be a happy experience in full consciousness.
I also teach parents how to massage their babies and how to help their babies adapt to the reality of their new world.
I coach pregnant women in taking good care of themselves throughout their pregnancy and provides them with both physical and emotional support.
For a Happy Birth is a happy start in life…