My name is ME Louis, queer psychotherapist from Belgium, a little European country surrounded by many other countries, languages and cultures.

In Belgium, I discovered theatre as a teenager and it really helped me to go through the difficult age of finding my personal identy. Theatre helped me to try new roles in a safe environment and to slowly discover who I would like to be.

I decided to study psychology because I wanted to understand  human beings more deeply and how the collective and the individual uncousciousness affect  us emotionally and physically.

I used many theatre techniques in my different praticiums, feeling that it might help people in need, as it helped me in the past.
I started working in a psychiatric hospital where I discovered the power of theatre with people suffering from mental disabilities and noticed how some symptoms disappeared while they were playing.

A few years later, I had the chance to assist Serge Minet in his theatre therapy sessions in a psychiatric hospital and It opened my eyes to deeply believe that it was exactly what I would likle to do of my life!

I saw that in Montreal Quebec, a dramatherapy master program was offered and decided to pack my bags and fly to this unknown country that always appealed to me since I was a child. I could finally realize my dream!

In my training, I worked with people with intellectual disabilities and had this great chance to assist a musictherapist and dancetherapist as well as offering my own dramatherapy sessions for individuals

and groups.

In my last year of my Master's program, I contacted a women's prison in Montreal. I wanted to bring dramatherapy in a place where nobody has done it before, where the women did not get any chance to have a voice  to speak out loud, or to express freely themselves. This pilot project was accepted by

the jail's director and I had the most amazing experience over there. The women trusted me and let me create a research project of finding their inner clown. We laughed so much but cried too. I felt that the clown helped them to connect to their truth selves with sensitivity and a great sense of humor.

I knew then that I was at the right place and that I was meant to do this job. I wanted to give a space of free expression in a place where the people were cut off and many limitations in their normal routines applied.

In the summer 2011, I entered into a prison for men and I offered for the first time, dramatherapy sessions.

I also worked from 2013 to 2020 in a women’s centre, working to give a voice to women and queer folks that we don't want to hear  or are not be heard. I offer individual and group therapy to incest survivors.

In 2020, I started another master in couple and family therapy to better support family and couple with a systemic lens.

I have been working for a eating disorder clinic and continue in private practice,