The Mental Health Crisis 21% of U.S. adults (52.9M people) experienced a mental illness in 2020, one million more than the adult population of France, where I grew up.¹ However, 55% of these people did not receive the mental health care support they needed because of the shortage of therapists…

As soon as I decided to coach again, questions started swirling in my mind. Which approach from all the modalities I’d learned should I use? Which user need should I address? What market should I target? I thought about options and listed the pros and cons. My mind tried to…

I have a collection of binaural beats I listen to daily, including now, as I polish this piece. Recently, I shared my favorite beats with friends. Some loved them. Some were skeptical. It was time to dive into the literature. Binaural Beats and Brainwave Entrainment Neurons are sensitive to the…

Black Monday London, October 2012. I’d just pitched a business at the London Business School, where I was finishing my MBA. I should have been working. Instead, I was pacing my room, unable to concentrate. I called Jonty, who’d mentored me over the summer. “What’s wrong with me?” I screamed. …

Insane I stopped counting two decades ago the number of times I was told I was insane. “You’re insane to go to Singapore to finish your master’s” (my classmates in France). “You’re insane to learn Chinese while finishing your Ph.D. in science” (my Ph.D. advisor). “You’re insane to go study…

I Was Skeptical “You’ve got to attend this Theta Healing course,” my friend Chrystel kept telling me five years ago when I was working in Dubai. During a Theta Healing session, a healer relaxes him/herself and the client into a theta state and guides the client to access and reprogram…

I was skeptical about EMDR before my first session and didn’t bother doing any research. After the third session, when I started processing past traumas, I was blown away by how efficacious EMDR could be. I started diving into the literature to understand what was happening. Discovery EMDR was discovered…