What is Hagiotherapy?

A few words on the psychotherapist I am

By browsing this website, you will have understood that my practice as a clinical psychologist in hospitals and private cabinet, for about ten years, has led me to refine my tools, during my clinical experience, so as to develop a care that best fit in the patient, according to his or her issues. This is how Hagiotherapy was born.

It seems to me that the difference between a clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist lies in the tools used. A clinical psychologist uses the tools of her university training, the psychotherapist I am, has created, in addition to my tools as a psychologist, her own tools, in a pragmatic way during my experience, in order to best fit in the patient and his issues.

Hagiotherapy in a few words

Hagiotherapy takes into account three dimensions of the being, namely, the body, the psyche and the soul (or spirit). To use a metaphor, there are ties between these three dimensions, and the ill-at-ease feeling comes from these ties that are damaged, less flexible, less mobile, due to knots that have been created during the patient's life. The objective of Hagiotherapy is to untie these knots to find inner appeasement.

Apprehend knots to untie them

Very often, the patient feels ill-at-ease, without understanding where it comes from. The first step in psychotherapy is therefore to try to discriminate, in these three dimensions, the ties at stake in this ill-at-ease feeling.

The second step is to uncover the knots made by the ties of these three dimensions that create this ill-at-ease feeling. Indeed, the ties became entangled and formed knots.

The last step is to untie these knots.

These steps are not linear. Mankind is a complex being, and Hagiotherapy consists of going back and forth between these different steps to untie these knots. These back and forth movements allow to understand more and more finely how the knot is formed, and it is the understanding of the knot that allows it to untie.

My role as a psychotherapist is to guide you through these different steps and the back and forth movements, so that you learn by yourself how to carry out these steps and the back and forth movements.

Creating tools to apprehend these knots

To apprehend these knots and how they were formed, the patient needs to sharpen the way he looks at himself and his history, in other words to acquire tools, such as glasses, magnifying glasses or binoculars, to observe these knots, to continue the metaphor.

My role as a psychotherapist consists in looking through what you say about yourself and your life, to check if you already have tools at your disposal, created during a previous life trial, for example, and indicating to you what tools you already have.

In general, these tools will help untie knots, but they are not enough to untie them all, otherwise, intuitively, you would have untied them on your own, without calling on me.

So, my role as a psychotherapist is also to help you create new tools to be able to sharpen your gaze sufficiently on the knots you have not yet managed to untie, because when the gaze is sufficiently sharpened, you understand how the knot is formed, and it is this understanding that unties it.

You are unique, your tools will only be effective if they are unique too

As you can see, hagiotherapy is a psychotherapy in which you will create your own tools. Indeed, they are the only ones that will be effective, since each human being is unique, by his history and who he is. Also, while some tools may work for most human beings, others are unique to you, so only you can build them. My place as a psychotherapist is not to give you my tools, learned in university training or developed by myself, but to help you build your personal tools.