YVETTE
FONTENOY-LILOT
SYSTEMIC FAMILY
THERAPY
What is Family Therapy
In many cultures, the family is the smallest system. Each
system, as it passes through periods of change, seeks to reconstruct its
uniqueness, its system. Generally, families go through the 'normal'
stages of development or crises, resolving them within the family
itself. Their family life continues, integrating new experiences and
re-adjusting. However, there are periods when a family, or one of its
members, may be faced with a particular problem or series of problems
which leads them to decide to seek professional help.
For example, a child may have problems with his or her siblings or
parents, at school, be bullied or start bed-wetting, etc….; a family
member may go through a period of anxiety, depression, there may be a
problem with addiction; with physical or mental illness; the family may
be coping with change:- a new baby, a young adult moving out from the
family home, a new job, relocation - even to a new country - with
unemployment, separation or divorce, illness, bereavement….. Sometimes,
changes are obvious, other times they seem to have developed over time
and to be less tangible. Each person's, each family's experience is
unique.
International background
I have dual British and French nationality as my parents each had one
French parent. The eldest daughter in a family of nine surviving
children, I was born in South Africa, then moved to Canada, lived for
many years in the UK, and have spent the past twenty years in France.
I have two children whose father is Burmese and four
step-children, whose father is Belgian, I care very much for children
and young people who are finding it difficult to come to terms with
problems.
Qualifications and Experience
I am a family therapist, with an honours degree in Psychology
(Open University - UK), followed by four years training in France in
Systemic Family Therapy and I am a member of the British Psychological
Society (BPS). My training did not just
concentrate
on the Systemic approach but insisted on the flexibility of working with
all the main psychotherapeutic approaches, including the Contextual, the
Psychodynamic, the Gestalt, Brief Therapy Work and many others.
Previous to that, I worked for several years in HR, mainly in
recruitment, at INSEAD, the international business school in
Fontainbleau. Just before moving to France, I was working with the
Mental Handicap Team for Chatham Hospital, based in Rochester, Kent. I
am currently living and working just outside Caumont sur Durance, near
Avignon.
In practice
I work with those members of the family who can and wish
to participate, with a couple, or with an individual, usually within the
context of the family.
I meet my clients on a confidential and non-judgemental basis, where
my aim is to create a warm and secure setting within which clients can
talk freely in their search for the modus vivendi that suits them. If
distance makes face-to-face work difficult, I can also consider work via
the telephone
The first meeting is always free as it is important that all those
involved in therapy should feel comfortable working together. Sessions
last for one hour. Therapy may consist of just a few sessions or it may
continue over a longer period, not usually lasting more than between ten
and eighteen months. I ask 60€ per session for a family, and 45€ per
session for a couple or individual (terms and conditions can be
supplied). I abide by the code of ethics of the BPS.
If you would like to find out more, please contact me on
0033 490 31 80 84 or by email:
yvette.lilot@gmail.com
Siret no: 487 458 630 00018
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