Becoming a parent involves significant changes and confronts each person with new responsibilities. Guilt, doubt, or exhaustion can make it difficult to feel like you have found your place.
Why is it so hard to find my place as a parent?
Becoming a parent can raise new questions: what boundaries should I set? How do I respond to my child's needs? How do I preserve a space for myself?
Guilt can arise when a parent feels they do not match the image they had of parenthood.
This experience can resonate with certain representations stemming from one's own family history.
Why do I sometimes feel like a bad parent?
Conflicts, exhaustion, educational difficulties, or emotional reactions can lead to profound self-doubt.
Consultation provides a space to talk about these feelings without judgment and to explore what parenthood stirs in the parent's relationship with themselves, their child, and their history.
Why do certain reactions from my child trigger very strong emotions in me?
Some of a child's behaviors can awaken in a parent memories, wounds, or expectations linked to their own childhood.
This does not mean the parent will necessarily repeat what they themselves experienced.
Parenthood can, however, bring certain personal questions back to the surface, which can be explored through psychoanalytic work.
Why do I get so angry at my children?
Fatigue, repeated constraints, and a sense of powerlessness can fuel reactions of anger.
When these become frequent or difficult to control, it is important to try to understand what triggers them.
Anger can sometimes be linked to expectations, frustrations, or past experiences that parenthood brings back to the surface.
If you fear harming your child, professional help should be sought promptly.
How can I understand what parenthood stirs within me?
A psychoanalytic approach offers the parent a space of their own.
There, they can speak about their guilt, doubts, exhaustion, reactions, and their relationship with their child.
The work gradually allows one to distinguish what belongs to the parent's history, what belongs to the current situation, and what is at play in the relationship with the child.
I offer psychoanalytic consultations in Lyon, in person or by teleconsultation, for parents who wish to reflect on what parenthood stirs within their history.
A first meeting is an opportunity to get acquainted, clarify your request, and explore whether a psychoanalytic approach suits your situation and expectations.
Living parenthood better through psychoanalysis, in Lyon or by teleconsultation