Sophie Trentesaux
Psychologist and author
Languages spoken FR · EN
Hello, I'm Sophie
As a child, my grandmother told me I would be a doctor. I looked at her and said “never in my life”! It came out in one go, from inside me, without me really controlling it.
That day, my grandmother sealed in me a kind of debt I would not honour. So I turned to pharmacy studies, to make the medicines that could heal. I did not want to treat, I wanted to heal people! Then I went into research to find medicines for the skin. I left for the USA for a postdoc for that. And much later, I went back to university to become a psychologist.
I did not become a doctor. And yet something around care, healing and understanding the human being kept its way in me.
Sophie Trentesaux, « Ma grand-mère m’a dit que je serai médecin », Le Magazine, The Aligned Shift, 11 August 2026.
Who I accompany, and how
When your path no longer quite fits you.
I accompany that precise moment: the one where you have built a path that, on paper, still works, but in which you no longer quite recognise yourself. A loss of meaning, a tiredness, a desire for something else, or simply the feeling that something has to change, without knowing what.
- You are starting to question what you have built, before knowing what decision to take.
- You no longer recognise yourself in what you do, and you hesitate between staying, leaving and retraining.
- An important decision is waiting, and neither the list of pros nor the list of cons is enough.
I am not here to tell you whether to stay, leave or retrain. I help you look more closely at what you are going through, before deciding what you want to do with it. I like putting words on the mechanisms, the feelings and the tensions that influence our decisions: our fears, our desires, our beliefs, our identity, our need for security, our intuition.
My perspective draws on my experience of accompanying change, and on my work as an author. I am a psychologist, and I have myself been through several transitions: the United States, Singapore, studies taken up again after forty, several careers in research, marketing and human resources.
Being accompanied
Sometimes, we know what we are leaving without yet knowing where we want to go.
So we move forward with questions, sometimes contradictory desires, the feeling of being between two moments of our life. We may need to put down what we are going through, to bring a little order back into our thoughts, or simply to be accompanied so as not to stay alone with what is at play.
My work offers a space to slow down, to listen to what is seeking to emerge and to put words on what lives in you. Together, we will be able to look at what holds you back, what calls you, the resources you can lean on, and the first steps that could help you move forward.