Céline Rappaz

PRESENTATION
 
Sometimes, it is easier to remain still when facing all the doors ajar that let you see different life paths, rather than choosing one door and stepping through it, leaving the other possibilities behind you. However, it is a mandatory passage to move from "possibility" to "reality"... And this passage might again lead you to face other doors ajar! Life is a long path with multiple junctions.

During my obligatory schooling, I first started to explore different doors ajar, from visual arts to mathematics, via biology and history. Then, arriving at the University, it was time for me to make a choice to go from "possibility" to "reality": I decided to let myself be guided by a desire that had been within me for a long time: that of working in psychological support. I obtained my Master in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience in Fribourg in 2019, and officially became psychologist recognized by the Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP). My path next led me to train in therapeutic hypnosis at the Institut d'Hypnose Thérapeutique (IHT) of Vaumarcus after having found out about this fascinating communication art that is hypnosis. In the same breath, I added to my toolbox the training in perinatal hypnosis HypnoNatal® of Lise Bartoli, that allows me to provide support to future mothers during their pregnancy and to help them prepare for giving birth.

Deeply convinced that everybody posses in themselves the resources to carry on, I then chose to open other doors that enriched me through the influences of the Person Centered Approach (PCA), the Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and mindfulness.

These varied experiences have progressively forged the foundations of the different types of support I offer nowadays. I have at heart to welcome you in a benevolent, authentic, and non-judging environment, and to join you wherever you are on your very own path: stuck facing too many doors ajar, apprehensive when stepping through an open door, not completely convinced anymore that this door was the right one for you, or filled with the feeling that there are no open doors in front of you...


“The important thing is not the destination, it's the journey” (Robert Louis Stevenson), and I would be honored to walk along with you on part of your journey.


 
 SERVICES
 
> Psychological counseling with or without hypnosis, with or without mindfulness, individual setting or two-persons session
To better carry on, it is sometimes helpful or even necessary to take a break in the frantic pace of everyday life. Psychological counseling proves to be an invaluable asset to (re)discover your own internal resources allowing for more calm and serenity. It is in a benevolent and non-judging environment that I welcome you for psychological counseling sessions enriched with mindfulness and offering a place of honor to the body-mind connection.
This personalized support is a complementary combination of the Person Centered Approach (PCA), the Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), non-directive hypnotherapy and mindfulness.  PCA places the individual in the center of the therapeutical process, trusting in their capacities and resources, in order to facilitate the personality development through a collaboration relationship between the client and the therapist. With EFT, issues are addressed through the filter of the attachment theory, that considers that human beings are intrinsically relational, social, and wired to create intimate connections with others. Non-directive hypnotherapy offers a privileged access to all conscious and unconscious resources and competences, allowing to replace more easily negative schemes (undesirable emotions, thoughts or behaviors) by more appropriate and well-being facilitating perceptions. Finally, mindfulness allows the connection to the "here and now", allowing clients to take distance and experience that they are much more than the challenges they are currently facing.

> Perinatal hypnosis
The HypnoNatal® method uses hypnosis to support future mothers during their pregnancy and help them prepare for giving birth. Through mental relaxation techniques, positive visualisations and metaphors, future mothers learn to develop or regain confidence in their capacity to give birth and become mothers, to develop relaxation, to transform negative emotions and thoughts into positive perceptions, and to alleviate physical pains caused by pregnancy. Perinatal hypnosis aims to make future mothers autonomous by teaching them auto-hypnosis tools.
The HypnoNatal® support starts from the 2nd trimester and is composed of 4 sessions. Counseling with hypnosis can also start before, and continue after birth.