Becoming a parent involves significant changes and brings new responsibilities. Feelings of guilt, self-doubt, exhaustion, or a sense of not knowing where one fits in can make this period difficult to navigate. These questions can also bring conflicts, expectations, or uncertainties about how to be a parent to the surface, sometimes in connection with one's own personal history.
In my psychoanalytic consultations in Lyon, either in person or online, the work involves exploring what becoming a parent brings into play for the individual, what may be repeated or reactivated during this period, and how to develop a more personal position in relation to the changes and responsibilities associated with parenthood.
Why Is It So Difficult to Find My Place as a Parent?
Becoming a parent can raise new questions: What boundaries should I set? How can I respond to my child's needs? How can I preserve a sense of self?
Feelings of guilt may arise when a parent feels they do not live up to the image they had of parenthood.
This experience may resonate with certain beliefs and representations shaped by their own family history.
Why Do I Sometimes Feel Like a Bad Parent?
Conflicts, exhaustion, parenting challenges, or emotional reactions can lead to deep self-doubt.
Psychoanalysis offers a space to talk about these feelings without judgment and to explore how parenthood affects the parent's relationship with themselves, their child, and their own history.
Why Do Certain Reactions from My Child Trigger Such Strong Emotions in Me?
Certain behaviours in a child may bring up memories, emotional wounds, or expectations connected to the parent's own childhood.
This does not mean that the parent will necessarily repeat what they experienced themselves. However, parenthood can bring certain personal questions back to the surface, which can be explored through psychoanalytic work.
Why Do I Get So Angry with My Children?
Fatigue, recurring demands, and feelings of helplessness can contribute to anger.
When these reactions become frequent or difficult to control, it is important to seek to understand what triggers them.
Anger may sometimes be connected to expectations, frustrations, or past experiences that are reawakened by parenthood.
If you are afraid you might harm your child, it is important to seek professional help promptly.
How Can I Understand What Parenthood Brings to the Surface in Me?
Psychoanalytic work offers parents a space of their own.
They can talk about their feelings of guilt, doubts, exhaustion, reactions, and relationship with their child.
Over time, this work can help distinguish between what belongs to the parent's personal history, what relates to the current situation, and what unfolds in the relationship with the child.
I offer psychoanalytic consultations in Lyon, either in person or online, for parents who wish to reflect on how parenthood affects and brings aspects of their personal history to the surface.
An initial consultation provides an opportunity to get to know one another, clarify what brings you to therapy, and consider whether a psychoanalytic approach is suited to your situation and expectations.
Navigating Parenthood Through Psychoanalysis, in Lyon or Online