Meeting with Dr Violaine MISSELYN-GUBLER, child psychiatrist working at the establishment

As the new school year gets underway, we met Dr Violaine MISSELYN- GUBLER, a child psychiatrist practising at the Hôpital Privé La Casamance.
Dr GUBLER specialises in treating young people from infants to young adults up to the age of 25, including children, adolescents and pregnant women (perinatal psychiatry).

Dr GUBLER offers a range of diversified programmes adapted to the different pathologies that children may present with.

From the start of the new school year, Dr GUBLER will be offering "emotion workshops" for nursery and primary school children, to help them get in touch with their emotions, pay attention to them and identify, express and release them.

These workshops will use tools such as relaxation, mindfulness, medical hypnosis, the Wheel of Emotions and Emotional Freedom Therapy (EFT).
This area dedicated to the 'little ones' will be run once a month in small groups and co-hosted by a psychologist.

But Dr GUBLER believes that taking care of children also involves listening to their parents, and sees parents as co-therapists. With this in mind, from the first quarter of 2019 Dr GUBLER will be offering a Parenting Skills Training Programme (PEHP) aimed at parents whose children suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). The aim of the programme is to help parents understand and better manage their child's disorder, learn how to formulate a request effectively/ positively reinforce their child's adapted behaviour, anticipate future problems and thus improve the quality of the parent/child relationship.

Dr GUBLER, in collaboration with Dr Sophie RASSON, is also interested in eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Patients with these disorders can be treated individually or in groups, either as part of the PACK programme or in Cognitive Remedial Therapy (CRT) groups for restrictive anorexia nervosa.

Finally, Dr GUBLER practices medical hypnosis and virtual reality exposure therapy.

For more information, please visit his website: https: //www.docteurgubler.com/