Who this practice is for.

Senior and curious manual practitioners

You have years of clinical experience: a library of training, a caseload you know well, and cases that no single framework fully accounts for. You have learned when tissue reads differently from the history. You have watched presentations improve along one axis while resisting along another. You have developed instincts you can act on but sometimes cannot fully articulate, or perceptions that still have no precise words to describe them.

What I can offer is a peer read. Not a second opinion in the medical sense — a structured discussion of the presentation from different angles: the enactive and cranial/biodynamic frame I work from, the observational orientation I bring, and twenty-three years of clinical experience that includes a specific focus on nervous-system reactivity. I will tell you what the case suggests from my frame, where my reading agrees with yours and where it doesn't, and what I would investigate or refer — along with why. It can happen as a conversation, or hands-on with a patient or yourself directly. I believe the osteopathic tradition of "hand on hand" learning is one of its exceptional virtues.

A Consultation session works for a specific case or question. A Mentoring relationship works for the kind of development that sustains over time: not a course, not a certification, but a regular intellectual relationship that holds the complexity of your work across months. I take "power over" dynamics very seriously, in case that matters for you.

Relevant services: Professional Consultation · Ongoing Mentoring

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Somatic and trauma-aware therapists

You work in Somatic Experiencing, SensoriMotor Psychotherapy, NARM, IFS, or adjacent body-oriented modalities. You have a sophisticated framework for the nervous system and for trauma-held patterns. You may have limited formal training in hands-on clinical assessment, but you work alongside practitioners who do — and you want to understand what they are reading through touch. If you have done Kathy Kain's Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists, this work sits naturally alongside it.

Or you are navigating a referral decision. A client whose body presentation concerns you; you want a practitioner's read on whether hands-on assessment is warranted, what kind, and with what expectations.

I work from an enactive frame — drawing on Draper-Rodi, Thomson, Esteves, and Sposato on active inference in manual therapy — that maps usefully onto the nervous-system orientation you already have. I do not translate either language down to the other: I speak somatic-experiential and hands-on clinical as distinct registers that can be in genuine conversation. A Consultation session can serve as a referral conversation, a specific case discussion, or an intellectual exchange about where manual assessment and somatic therapy intersect and diverge.

Relevant services: Professional Consultation

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Researchers and educators

You are a PhD candidate, a journal reviewer, a course designer, or faculty at an osteopathic or somatic training programme. You are working with clinical material — developing curriculum, designing assessment approaches, interpreting research at the boundary of manual therapy and pain science — and you want a practitioner who has spent time in both the clinical room and the academic frame.

I am completing a Master's in Osteopathy at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, developing knowledge in neuroscience, enactive approaches, person-centred care, pain science, and sustainable leadership. I spent five years on faculty at CEESO Paris, served as president of the Académie d'Ostéopathie de France from 2012 to 2015, and have been in continuous clinical practice for twenty-three years.

A single Consultation session is the form for a bounded question or a specific case. Larger collaborations — around curriculum, teaching, or research at the boundary of manual therapy and pain science — I currently take on only occasionally and by conversation, as my own thesis and a teaching curriculum take shape.

Relevant services: Professional Consultation

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Programmes and clinics

You run a midwifery practice, a perinatal or trauma-informed clinic, an osteopathic school, or a group practice that is developing its clinical frameworks. You are interested in what a French-trained osteopathic perspective — grounded in interoception and contemporary pain science — might offer your team.

Formal, scoped engagements are not a standing offer yet. I am writing my thesis on the neurophysiological responses to osteopathic touch and developing a curriculum to teach my interoceptive approach in English and French. Until that work is in place, I take on organisational collaborations only occasionally, and by conversation rather than fixed deliverable. If you have something in mind, an enquiry is the right first step — we can look together at whether it fits.

Starting point: Send an enquiry →

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What I will not take on

I will be direct about what does not fit this practice.

CPD credits and credentials. I do not issue certificates, CPD credits, or credentials. I will invoice as professional consultation services.

Formal clinical supervision with registration obligations. If you need clinical supervision that carries formal obligations to a regulatory body — where I would carry responsibility for your licence in good standing — that is a different kind of engagement than I offer here.

Framework shopping. The offer is collaborative thinking through complexity, not a proprietary method that explains everything you have been unable to explain. If you are looking for a new single model, this engagement will disappoint. I won't teach you my style, and I won't teach you osteopathy — but I will help you find an approach that fits how you work and who you are.

If you are unsure whether your situation fits, a single Consultation session is the straightforward first step. Book directly, bring the question, and we can clarify the scope in the session.