find a psychologist for a teenager in Paris 9

How to find a psychologist in Paris 9 for a suffering teenager?

In Paris or the Paris region, finding a psychologist for a teenager can quickly become an obstacle course. Which psychologist to choose? A psychologist trained in psychoanalysis or a psychologist who does “brief therapy”? Do you need a coach, a sophrologist, or a hypnotist? The multiplicity of techniques and specialties causes a lot of confusion.

However, behind these numerous names there are actually two types of techniques: suggestion techniques and the free association method.

• ●  Most current “care offers” are based on suggestion techniques, i.e. techniques which aim to influence the patient so that he thinks he is better: “everything is fine”, “you have confidence in yourself”, “think to the positive and avoid thinking about the negative", etc. These suggestion techniques make it possible, in a way, to "change one's ideas" but their effects dissipate quite briefly, which is why the term "brief therapy" may be appropriate.

• ●  Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are based on the method of free associations. The latter aims for the adolescent to gradually confront his inner conflicts so that he can build, as the treatment progresses, a peaceful relationship with his life and his existence.

  Why see a psychologist or psychoanalyst when a teenager is suffering?

  It takes one or two years to train in a suggestion technique (coaching, CBT, sophrology, etc.) and it takes several decades of training for the free association method.

  Furthermore, the use of the free association method assumes that the psychologist himself carries out his own psychotherapy or his own psychoanalysis.

  This last consideration is essential, especially for adolescents in distress because they are particularly sensitive to the question of authority and imposture, that is to say this tendency to say: “do what I say, not what I do.”

To summarise, finding a psychologist for a troubled adolescent therefore requires finding a clinician, trained in the method of free associations, who can have experience of his own treatment: the benevolence and authority that his personal work gives him will help the adolescent grow and thus build a truly peaceful relationship with himself and his peers.

If you would like to know more about the free association method and if you would like to make an appointment with an adolescent psychologist in Paris, you can contact me directly or make an appointment on Doctolib.

If you are looking for a clinician in another district of Paris or in another city, you will find a list of psychologists for adolescents in the Paris region .

Psychologist for adolescents in Paris 9