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Support for relatives and carers

Where it is useful, time with parents or carers can be offered. These meetings help you understand the cognitive profile revealed by the assessment, provide bearings, and identify together what can be adjusted in daily life.

Who

Who are these meetings for?

They concern the immediate circle of someone seen at the practice, in four main situations.

  • Parents of a child or teenager

    After an assessment that has identified a neurodevelopmental condition (ADHD, autism spectrum condition, specific learning disorder) or an atypical cognitive profile. This is what is called parent guidance.

  • Relatives of someone after a brain injury

    Partner, children, siblings, after a stroke or a traumatic brain injury. Cognitive after-effects are often invisible from the outside, and that is precisely what makes living together difficult.

  • Carers of someone with a neurodegenerative condition

    Understanding what the person can still do alone, what belongs to the illness rather than to unwillingness, and how to adjust help without taking over.

  • People close to someone in CBT

    Where relatives, without meaning to, help maintain an anxiety disorder, through repeated reassurance or by arranging around the avoidance.

Content

What we actually do

These meetings are not a rerun of the report. They start from your real situations.

  • Understanding the report

    Going back over, in plain language, what the assessment found: which functions are preserved, which are impaired, and what that produces in an ordinary day.

  • Turning results into bearings

    Moving from the cognitive profile to real situations: homework, waking up, meals, transitions, outings, relationships with siblings or colleagues.

  • Identifying possible adjustments

    Looking together at what can be changed in the environment, the instructions, the pace or the organisation, rather than expecting an effort the person cannot make.

  • Decoding what keeps repeating

    Spotting the scenarios that come back, and understanding what triggers and maintains them. The same weekly argument often has an identifiable cognitive mechanism behind it.

  • Protecting the carer

    Acknowledging the load, the fatigue and the guilt that often come with it. Helping someone over the long term means not exhausting yourself doing it.

Framework

What these meetings are not

They are not family therapy: the work is not about relationships within the family as such, but about understanding a cognitive profile and the adjustments that follow from it.

They are not an assessment of the family. Nobody is tested, nobody has to account for anything. You are not summoned: you are included.

They are not a way of obtaining information that the person seen at the practice would not have wanted to share. What is said in an individual session remains covered by professional secrecy. These meetings are held with the agreement of the person concerned, and what may be discussed is defined with them beforehand, including where the person is a child, whose view is sought in a way appropriate to their age.

Format

How these meetings work

Until the practice in Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes opens, these meetings take place by video consultation. A secure link is sent to you before the appointment. Settle somewhere quiet, where you will not be interrupted and where your privacy is protected.

A single meeting is sometimes enough: going back over the report, asking the questions left hanging, leaving with three or four usable bearings. In other situations, particularly in parent guidance or in supporting a carer over time, several spaced-out appointments are more useful. The pace is decided together, with no prior commitment.

Fees

The fee for these meetings

These meetings are charged at the neuropsychological consultation rate, which is set out together with every other service offered by the practice, on the fees page. Where the exchange falls within another framework (a psychotherapy session, for example), the applicable fee is stated before the appointment. No service is invoiced without its cost having been announced beforehand.

The practice is not contracted with the French statutory health insurance (Assurance Maladie) and does not take part in the “Mon soutien psy” scheme, so sessions are not reimbursed by the state. Many complementary health insurers (a mutuelle in France, or your employer’s scheme if you work in Luxembourg) do refund part of the fee. An itemised receipt is issued after every session. Payment can be spread over several instalments on request.

Supporting someone and no longer sure how?

Write to me with your contact details, your relationship to the person concerned and what you are finding difficult day to day. I reply as soon as I can, usually within the week.

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