Nantes Psychotherapy and Consulting Services

06/04/2026

https://substack.com//note/p-193274196?r=2i49k&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

Or how psychoanalytically trained therapists listen…

05/04/2026

05/04/2026

"The place of love and hate in the consulting room is a vital link with a patient's early experience, and depending on how the analyst receives the patient's hate and understands her own hatred of her patient, it can carry the analysis forward."

-Lesley Caldwell, Affect and Emotion in the Consulting Room, 2025

Painting by Alice Neel, "Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia)," 1967

01/04/2026

There are practical real-life reasons one should not rely exclusively on online psychotherapy. If you take your health seriously, consider working with someone who is alive in the room with you. Your doctor cannot do clinical exams by video, and a therapist misses important information about your health without you there.
https://open.substack.com/pub/itsalwayssomething1/p/why-your-therapist-should-not-be?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

01/04/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/itsalwayssomething1/p/why-your-therapist-should-not-be?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Espcecially for your adapting expat brain...

22/03/2026

https://itsalwayssomething1.substack.com/p/is-it-all-in-your-head?r=2i49k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwY2xjawQtJ-NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBaUEhienRhRm4xRWFObGR5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtX2UBRMORCYQsCdXNBfJt_yiaMdxOxuiU_dTjbI52FLqvR8BpTrxuIOCuLz_aem_-R3MnUFh_17QDF269oetVw&triedRedirect=true

Psychosomatic illness - anxiety vs. reality.

15/03/2026

Here's an article about parenting the littles when the école maternelle is not quite what you expected...

How to advocate for your bilingual babies...

10/03/2026

Here is what we can work on in psychotherapy sessions:

- anxiety that won’t settle
- repeated relationship conflicts
- feeling stuck in life
- oss of confidence or direction
- long-standing depression

These problems can benefit from more insight-oriented work that encourages you to recognize patterns in your behavior, moods, and attitudes. If the underlying pressure creating the symptoms is released, the symptoms will ease.

10/03/2026

Focussed, in-depth, short-term work is possible. It's possible to use your insight and inner resources to create personalized "tools" to get beyond the blocks. This is called Integrated Psychotherapy, using the best of psychodynamic understanding, and cognitive work. It's best for situations that seem stuck due to recent circumstances - not on-going patterns or issues. Thoughts? Questions? Comment below if you wish.

08/03/2026

What it's like to train as a psychoanalyst, from a candidate in NYC. At the Société Psychanalytique de Paris it's not quite the same structure, but the depth required by our training is described so well here.

“This came from an experience with a patient. It was early in my analytic training, and I was working with a supervisor who I really admired, and worked with her for a number of years. She was post-Kleinian, and was great at interpretation, formulation, and she was really helpful with just startin...

08/03/2026

Trauma, trauma, trauma --- if you are as old of me, this makes me think of the Brady Bunch episode - "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha" - which was Jan's own trauma, I suppose. Happy Sunday, everyone.

and the Unthought Known.

04/03/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/itsalwayssomething1/p/the-light-is-back-in-nantes?r=2i49k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

And???