Photo: Rachel Saddedine
Transform your wounds. Grow. Love yourself.
Gestalt psychotherapy to regain serenity, joy & inner freedom.
English speaking therapist - in Lyon and online.
Welcome!
Cramped in a life that no longer feels like you?
Waking up with a vague sadness, emptiness, or anxiety?
Your body is saying stop?
Feeling stuck, disconnected from yourself and others?
I welcome you into a safe space to explore what you’re going through and move toward more joy and authenticity.
Here, you can pause, take a side step. Choosing yourself becomes the first step towards true fulfilment.
Change can happen gently, without having to throw everything away.
Something in you is calling for change
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
— Carl Gustav Jung (Psychiatrist - Psychotherapist)
Psychotherapy Practice in Lyon and online : Consultations
Listening spaces designed for you. Each journey is unique. Different formats to best meet your needs and circumstances.
Individual therapy - in person
Personalised support to explore your challenges, understand your patterns, and regain your balance.
Individual session, 50 minutes : 80€
Frequency tailored to your needs : most often every 2 weeks
Group Breathwork sessions
In a group at the Lyon Bellecour meditation center
Weekly 1 hour sessions
A safe and caring space
Step by step guidance
Individual therapy - online
Personalised support to explore your challenges, understand your patterns, and regain your balance.
Individual session, 50 minutes : 80€
Frequency tailored to your needs : most often every 2 weeks
Hiking the camino de Santiago 1-7 May 2026
In a hyper-connected world, true luxury is disconnecting. From technology, screens, and the world’s frenzy.
7 days back to nature, slowing down to reconnect with yourself and your deepest aspirations.
Small group (max 10 people). Come walk with us. Backpack on, spirit light. A week of freedom.
Individual Breathwork sessions
A deeply personalised session
One 3 hour session. Setting your intention, exploring your personal theme, conscious breathing, and therapeutic exploration
In person in Lyon. Video session possible. Let’s talk about it.
In our performance-driven lives, we sometimes lose ourselves, we run out of breath. And then one day, the vital need to find ourselves again arises.
Therapy helps rekindle the quiet flame of being alive.
Gestalt: the psychotherapy of the present moment.
Gestalt supports you as you explore your emotions and life patterns. It invites you to become aware of how you function so you can transform it.
It integrates the body, emotions, mind, and relationships. It helps you live fully in the here and now and reclaim your autonomy.
It is a therapy with a humanistic and transformative approach that helps you create a life in harmony with your deepest aspirations.
Breathwork - the power of breathing
Gestalt sees the person as a whole. Body, emotions and thoughts.
Alongside talk therapy, I also work with the body when needed, partly using Breathwork.
Through simple, accessible techniques, the practice helps release tension, calm the mind, and reconnect with your inner guidance.
Breathing consciously is a path back to yourself. A space to release tension, soothe the nervous system and reconnect with calm, clarity and inner peace.
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Have the courage to be yourself, without fearing the judgment of others.
Many people feel afraid to step forward or take their rightful space, worried about being judged. This fear can be paralyzing, even when we aren’t fully aware of it.
Yet, it is essential to move beyond the fear of others’ gaze in order to live fully, express your uniqueness, and thrive.
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Love yourself better and love more fully. Rediscover inner peace and restore a healthy relationship with yourself and the world.
A lack of self-esteem can create deep, invisible suffering.
This work of inner reconciliation is essential to regain harmony within and access a true joy of living.
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The body holds the memory of our emotional wounds. Anxiety often reflects unfinished experiences from the past. Rather than escaping through the mind, the key is to return to the body, listen to its signals, and welcome the wounded inner child to find calm.
It is by moving from the head to the heart, into the here and now of the body, that we can acknowledge and transform our past experiences.
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Break the cycle of emotional dependency to fully thrive. Emotional dependence, often linked to low self-esteem or unresolved emotional wounds, can lead you to abandon yourself, losing touch with your own needs and desires.
This process of emotional liberation is essential to regain your autonomy and build healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
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Dare to get closer to others and open yourself fully to experience joyful and peaceful relationships.
The fear of commitment or intimacy, often linked to old emotional wounds, can create an unconscious cycle of closeness and withdrawal - that familiar “I call you and then I run away” pattern - which prevents you from experiencing calm and authentic connections.
Holistic approach: heart, body, mind
Examples of themes we can explore together through the body and through dialogue.
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What if midlife “crisis” was simply a passage toward yourself rather than a collapse? An uncomfortable but necessary moment to realign, rediscover your authenticity, and open up to new possibilities.
Psychotherapy provides a safe space to listen to your inner movement, clarify your priorities, and transform uncertainty into confidence, creativity, and personal growth.
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Overcome challenges and regain your balance during times of transition. Don’t let the turbulence of a crisis define you.
This period of disorientation can mark the beginning of a deep and constructive transformation, giving new meaning to your life.
The path to inner balance begins here and now.
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Losing a loved one is a deeply distressing experience. Grief is not something to be overcome; it is something to be lived through.
In our society, death remains a difficult topic, often approached with discomfort or completely avoided.
Grief is a painful journey, an immense void that can feel impossible to fill. Yet true fidelity in grief is not about being overwhelmed and broken, but about moving forward.
I accompany you on this path, helping you come to terms with your pain.
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In our society, menopause remains a taboo, often spoken of only in hushed tones. Yet menopause is a natural part of a woman’s life.
It is a passage, a gift of rebirth. It is also an opportunity to be reborn to yourself, to reconnect with your body and your feminine power. Freeing yourself from society’s view of menopause is a deeply liberating act that can mark the beginning of a joyful and profound renewal.
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My approach
My name is Elsa Weill. Trained in Gestalt therapy and breathwork, I support adults at transitional moments in life to help them regain alignment, vitality, and inner peace.
My areas of expertise:
Women in transition: burn-out, difficult relationships, grief, menopause.
People experiencing uprooting or a loss of bearings to regain grounding & feel fully in their place.
With 25 years of living abroad, I understand multicultural challenges – expatriation, repatriation, immigration, feelings of disconnection, and mixed families. I have lived in 7 countries and explored many worlds – from television to the UN, from film festivals to the Green School in Bali – before truly finding myself.
Before embarking on five years of Gestalt studies, I was a seeker of meaning. It is this journey of transformation that I now place in service of others.
Welcome to my website. You are in the right place - the path to inner balance begins here and now.
Feel free to contact me if you need; I am here.
Photo: Rachel Saddedine
Make an appointment
Every person is unique - your therapy is too. Together, we create a safe space to explore, heal, and flourish.
Book an appointment for a free 30-minute discovery session.
Do you want to feel better and reach your full potential? I'll help you lead a more fulfilling life.
Life is too short to be unhappy.
🎧 Podcast interview
✨I am sharing here my inner journey recorded on the podcast Unabridged You…
🎙️ Unabridged You is a podcast that invites people from very diverse backgrounds to share their stories, experiences, and passions. You’ll meet storytellers, therapists, artists, adventurers, activists, and community builders who have chosen to carve their own paths.
A true “open-hearted” conversation, where we talk about grief, about love, about highs (very high), about lows (very, very low), Gestalt therapy, Coffee with Strangers, life philosophies, and so much more.
“Grief as a Gift”, on the podcast Unabridged You.