Sylvie Quintart

Sylvie Quintart,

Family and couples psychotherapist, systemic therapist and family mediator,

my professional experience was forged over more than 25 years in a youth assistance institution, in a management role, as a sociologist and social worker.

There, I supported and accompanied children, young people, and also their families in situations that were as diverse as they were difficult.

Throughout my career, I trained in family therapy and couple therapy at the Center for Training and Research in Systems Theory at UCL and in family mediation at UMons.

I acquired concepts to better assess issues and tools to help therapeutic processes bring out solutions for a better future.

Today, my project is to offer you and your family a space for listening and speaking where my experience, my training and my creativity allow me to open up avenues for reflection in order to help you overcome your difficulties.

First, by taking the time to identify their causes and consequences, and second, by developing together strategies to resolve them.

My approach is simple, it is based on non-violent communication and active listening within a space for dialogue where everyone can confide and share. But you will not be alone, I will support you and guide you throughout this journey.

The objective is to nurture the relationship with yourself, with others, and communication within your family in order to calm the conflicts that set you against one another and to lay the foundations for a more peaceful future.

• I meet with you as a family when communication between the child and the parents has broken down in the context of the child’s transition to adulthood and autonomy. Indeed, this life transition can lead the child to withdraw into themselves, lose their bearings, or adopt deviant behaviours, leaving only incomprehension, anger, indifference, and suffering within the family.

With younger children, other problems may arise. Being a parent is not something you learn from books, and we may not always have our own parents with us to support us or to give us the right words and gestures to meet our children’s needs. Asking questions is therefore essential in order to have the keys to move beyond this feeling of clumsiness and loss of bearings as parents.

• I also meet with you as a couple, when “living together” becomes difficult and is a source of misunderstanding or dissatisfaction. Various creative tools are available to help you understand what has shaped your couple’s identity and what today tends to drive you apart, and then to envision a new way of building a life together.

My goal is for your relationship to become your strength!

• I also offer families in conflict and separated parents a space where, as a neutral third party and as a mediator, I support you in jointly seeking solutions to the problems caused by separation, while preserving the interests and relationships of each person and of their children.

• I also meet you for individual therapy to work again on your suffering, for which you have already tried to find solutions but which unfortunately remain insufficient or plunge you into other difficulties.

If you recognize yourself or someone in your family in one of these situations, do not hesitate to contact me.

It is out of passion that I practice this profession, and it is a great source of pride for me to place at your service my knowledge, my expertise, and my interpersonal skills to seek other possibilities for your distress and your difficulties in living.