Caroline Rivière Psychologue

18/08/2025

Des questions sur votre pratique? Comment construire un cadre qui vous convient? Quelle méthodologie employer face à des situations complexes? Toutes ces questions, et d'autres, peuvent être abordées en supervision.

14/08/2025

Une technique intéressante que je propose souvent en thérapie et supervision

Do you ever feel like you’re being pulled into multiple directions by different parts of yourself? Do you wish you could talk it out between those parts and heal the disconnect?

Schema therapy has a technique that helps with exactly that. The Chair Dialogue is a structured, experiential technique to help individuals explore and connect with different parts of the self — often referred to as “modes” (Kellogg, 2004).

These modes represent distinct emotional states or inner voices that form in response to early life experiences. While they may have developed as coping strategies, they can become rigid or maladaptive over time. The main four modes people usually experience are:

🌻Vulnerable Child – the part of you that holds your deepest fears, sadness, or unmet needs

🌻 Punitive Parent – that harsh inner critic you hear

🌻 Detached Protector – the part that numbs or disconnects to avoid emotional pain or vulnerability

🌻 Healthy Adult – the wise, balanced part that can regulate, nurture, and set boundaries

In Chair Dialogue, each mode is given its own physical chair. Clients can literally move between these chairs, taking on the perspective of each mode by sitting in its space, talking from its perspective or maybe responding to what the mode is saying from a different perspective. 

This dialogue creates space for understanding, regulation, and healing. The process often reveals how different parts of the self are trying to protect the individuals ‘self’, even if their strategies are no longer effective or helpful.

Chair work may feel strange or even awkward at first, but it often becomes a turning point in therapy — a way to make the abstract tangible and to initiate real internal change.

Which inner-self more would you put in a chair?

13/08/2025

09/08/2025

Une évolution inquiétante ...

Young people are becoming less conscientious (much less conscientious), more neurotic, more antagonistic, and more introverted. Taken together, this is not good. There are multiple potential causes of these findings, and I look forward to more research to see what the factors are that best predict these results. There are obviously societal trends and changes in the last 10 years that have an effect on the psyche and motivation.

09/08/2025

Une évolution inquiétante

Young people are becoming less conscientious (much less conscientious), more neurotic, more antagonistic, and more introverted. Taken together, this is not good. There are multiple potential causes of these findings, and I look forward to more research to see what the factors are that best predict these results. There are obviously societal trends and changes in the last 10 years that have an effect on the psyche and motivation.

05/08/2025

Ce cahier est gratuit : La santé mentale est l’affaire de toutes et tous. Pourtant, elle reste encore trop souvent reléguée au second plan, associée à la maladie plutôt qu’au bien-être global. Pour changer de regard et outiller chacun dans sa démarche de mieux-être, le Crips Île-de-France propose un cahier engagé destiné aux adultes : un support concret, stimulant et accessible pour explorer sa santé mentale avec une approche positive.
https://cultiverloptimisme.fr/prendre-soin-de-sa-sante-mentale-un-cahier-engage-pour-adultes-entre-introspection-et-action/