English-speaking Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.

Tamás Frey, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and coach, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.

As a psychotherapist, I receive adult clients in three languages: English, French and Hungarian. The therapy I propose can be beneficial in a variety of situations, such as depression, anxiety, feeling of “burn-out”, cultural shock, problems linked to displacement, migration or intercultural relationships, experience of low self-esteem, grief, bereavement, relationship difficulties, impulsivity, family conflicts or workplace stress.

Having lived in various cultures and worked with people for whom cultural adjustment was an important theme, I am particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues faced by my clients.

In my practice, I draw considerably on my core psychoanalytical and clinical training. My approach, however, is ever-evolving and inspired by different philosophical schools and therapeutic modalities such as phenomenology, existentialist & humanistic psychotherapy, experiential, body-focused, emotion-focused approaches and dreamwork-oriented therapy.

A licenced clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in France, I received my MA degree from the Université Paris 7 – Paris Diderot (today: Université Paris Cité), an heir of the Sorbonne. This Parisian university was the first to grant the title of ‘Clinical Psychologist’ in France for the course introduced by Jean Laplanche, author of the globally renowned dictionary of psychoanalysis. The Université Paris 7 is well known for its pre-eminently Freudian and Lacanian approach and its strong clinical focus. My two diploma theses (‘Master 1’ and ‘Master 2’) were both graded ‘très bien’ (excellent).

During my training, I worked in various positions, both in France and in Chile, where I was an exchange student at the Universidad Diego Portales. My work involved one-to-one counselling as well as group therapy sessions with children and adults. Throughout my practice years, I followed patients with a migration background, participating in so-called transcultural consultations in two different psychiatric sectors of Paris.

Between July 2018 and March 2019, I worked for a health-related NGO in the outskirts of Paris, which provides psychological support to disadvantaged people suffering from chronic illness.

From 2019 on, I have been providing support sessions to the consular staff of the British Consulate in Marseille as well as to NGOs based in Africa, through the London-based CiC’s Employee Assistance Programmes.

I am trilingual: in my clinical and counselling work I use English, French and Hungarian (the latter one being my mother tongue). I also speak some Spanish and German.