Charlotte Viaene
Topics
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Processing
- Relational questions
- Behavioural problems
- Emotional difficulties
- Attachment: adoption, foster care, placement
Offer
- Individual therapy with children and adolescents
- Family therapy
- Parental guidance
Languages
English, Dutch and French.
Method:
In the first phase, we explore the reasons for applying and the request for help. We do this by using the context and life story, with attention for the intergenerational aspect. By using language or play, we try to understand the meaning of symptoms/complaints. In doing so, we integrate reason, emotion and body experience.
Parents and carers are welcome to join us in reflecting on the reason for suffering. We then discuss ways of making things better for the child, adolescent and/or family. From my training as a psychologist, I think along with you, based on my knowledge of the (psychological) development of a child and their world of experience.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing EMDR is a psychotherapeutic technique that is used when our natural processing system is stuck: we cannot get certain thoughts or images out of our heads, feelings remain intense and overwhelm us, and/or there are physical complaints (fatigue, muscle tension, headaches,…). Before EMDR can be started, the living situation must be safe and sufficiently stable. Additional stabilisation techniques can be taught before processing is started. It is important that the client feels sufficiently comfortable with the therapist to be able to talk about what has happened to him/her. Therefore, processing is never done during a first appointment. The number of sessions required depends on the nature of the trauma, the client’s temporality and his/her coping process. In the case of single or one-off trauma, fewer sessions are often required than for complex trauma or long-term and repeated trauma.
Training
- Master Clinical Psychology, option children and adults (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Postgraduate Systemic therapy (Instituut voor Psychotherapeutische Relaties en Reflecties)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing: Simple and Complex trauma (Integrativa)
- Postgraduate in clincal psycho-diagnostics for children and adolescents (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
- Training in Clinical Psychanalysis with children (Chapelle-aux-Champs; UCL)
Experience
- Clinical training in Bolivia, La Paz
- Clinical training in Bolivia, La Paz
- Opvang vzw (foster care) (2009-2010)
- Lerni vzw: (multidisciplinary psycho-diagnostics with children and adolescents) (2010-2017)
- Passant vzw: Centre for Mental Healthcare (2010 – 2014)
- Therapeutic Centre Pentagone (2016)
- Consultation childpsychiatry St. Jan Clinic Brussels (2018)
- Domino: child psychiatry inpatient St. Jan clinic Brussels (2020-2021)
Membership:
- Psychologists’ Committee
- Flemish Federation for Clinical Psychologists
- Federation for Couple and Family therapy
- EMDR Belgium
Contact details:
Availibility
- Wednesday: 14u00-17u00 (TCP Madou)
- Thursday: 09u00-12u00 (TCP Agora)
- Thursday: 14u00-17u00 (TCP Agora)
- Friday: 09u00-12u00 (TCP Madou)
- Friday: 14u00-17u00 (TCP Madou)