My personal and professional formation
Before starting my professional formation in
sexology, I involved myself for about 20 years in diversified personal growth
undertakings in which I have been either participant or animator. This
experience allowed me to develop a great capacity for non-judgment, compassion
and understanding of others’ difficulties.
I learned to be a professional who shows
a very good listening ear and who is very respectful of people’s life
experiences, whatever they may be. Furthermore, my involvement in personal
growth groups has nourished my reflection about men and women life and sexual
experiences. This allowed me to acquire a deepened understanding of the human
sexuality as well as a great deal of maturity in regard to life and to people.
In fact, these last qualities have been frequently noticed by different teachers
all along my professional formation in sexology.
I thus undertook my professional formation
with a wealth of personal experience and with a great desire to deepen my
knowledge and my understanding of sexuality in order to be better equipped to
help people achieve a more harmonious and more adequate sexual life. My desire
to understand in order to help has been so great that, in 1997, I received the Academic
Silver Medallion from The General Governor of Canada. This medallion is
being given, in each university, to the finishing student who got the best
academic results during his or her undergraduate studies. Undertaking my
master’s degree in clinical sexology with the same determination to develop my
clinical abilities in sexology, I saw my efforts being highlighted by the
obtainment of many Award scholarships.
During my stage and my following practice, I
developed a specialization in sexoanalysis and in the systemic-interactional
approach and I gained experience in the cognitive-behavioral approach.
Besides my private counseling practice, I
teach within school training programs, and I write french articles for a
sexology chronicle in Courrier Laval.