Integrative psychology practice
Clinician Psychologist – Psychotherapist
Adults – Teenagers (16 y.o. & +)
Faced Issues
HIP (Gifted), HIQ, HSP are just some of the fashionable names. But what are they?
- HPI stands for High Intellectual Potential, commonly designated as “Gifted”, with no consensus definition, but it starts converging.
- HQI stands for High Intellectual Quotient: consensus definition: IQ > 130 on the WAIS.
- HSP stands for Highly Sensitive Person : consensus definition: hypersensitive person (HSPS score >80).
- HPI sounds like HQI + HSP, with a common denominator in your experience: a lot of “too much” too often heard about you.
- HEP stands for High Emotional Potential, sometimes referred to on social networks as “Empaths”, often linked to HSP, and for which there is no consensus on definition. It’s the subject of my PhD research.
But the important thing is YOUR feelings, your difficulties. We’ll work on your goals to improve your experience and reduce your difficulties. There’s nothing insurmountable in the world of “H”.
Here again, there’s less and less consensus, especially in a category-based approach with little room for nuance. I prefer a dimensional, mainly pragmatic approach focused on difficulties. You can have borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, dependent or avoidant traits, and still not meet all the criteria for these disorders. Yet the difficult experience is there, and it’s good to be able to let it go. I am specifically trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for this purpose.
This expertise also enables me to help people who have had difficulties or have suffered from relationships with people suffering from personality disorders (particularly narcissistic), or who have been abused (sexually or emotionally).
They are many and varied and can have multiple sources. With my integrative approach, I will focus on your specific difficulties, with the simple aim of improving your experience, or even, if you so request, simply boosting your effectiveness. I then combine my 20 years of management experience with my in-depth knowledge of psychology to help you achieve your goals and improve your day-to-day and quality of life at work.
In addition to the difficulties described above, I can also help you to manage difficulties related to :
- Attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADD/ADHD),
- sleep disorders
- a difficult separation or grief
- behaviour or events that you feel are too recurrent (‘I feel like my history is repeating itself’, ‘I always attract the same type of person’, ‘I feel like I’m not learning from my experience’, addictions, recurrent procrastination, etc.),
- any uncomfortable fears (phobias, anxieties, panic, feelings of oppression, abandonment, rejection, ‘not being able to do it’, etc.),
- a need to regain self-confidence, to ‘get back on track’, to regain the desire to do things, to prepare for a difficult milestone, professionally or personally.
Popular belief
It’s an old idea with a hard skin. Strictly speaking, psychopathology is the science of psychological suffering. But today, when prevention is becoming more and more commonplace, I prefer the notion of « difficulty » rather than « suffering ». My job is to offer you help by building a new path with you, helping you to resolve your difficulties, your personal or relational problems, to boost your career and your self-esteem, to overcome what you want to overcome, to actualize your potential, or even simply to understand and make sense of a situation that’s troubling you.
With my integrative approach, my posture is to build a new path with you. It’s a very cooperative approach, based on listening, exchange, non-judgment, mutual respect, transparency and mutual understanding. I’ll explain to you what I’m proposing, why and how, and we’ll only move forward on this path with what we call enlightened mutual agreement (I’ll make sure you understand what I’m proposing). Understanding, making things intelligible, enables us to regain a grip on difficulties. Acting conscientiously enables to overcome them.
CBTs are generally brief therapies with an average of about 10 sessions. This is an average, so it doesn’t apply to everyone. Nevertheless, they are pragmatic approaches, structured around objectives defined with you, based on reflection and above all practice, both in and out of the office. It’s based on identifying your resources and values, and developing them by putting them into practice. This is one of the reasons why the frequency of follow-up is generally on a fortnightly basis.
Address
Apt 98, 4ème étage
5 Allée de l’Auvergne
31 770 COLOMIERS
Phone
06 12 38 45 76
f.albert.psy@gmail.com