Who am I?
My name is Muriel Goubard and I created “Univers Thérapie” for you, to target one or more therapies for each individual.
It is about adapting to the person, not asking the person to adapt to a therapy.
Art therapy came into my life during a burnout: on sick leave, I spent a lot of time on the Internet. One day, I came across a video (Danser avec la maladie de Parkinson): an art therapy session for a group of elderly people living with Parkinson’s disease.
I knew straight away that I wanted to become an art therapist.
So, at over 55, I went back to school, starting with a distance learning course. At the time, I was living on a small Caribbean island, more than 8,000 km from France. I travelled back to mainland France several times to attend the in-person training and obtain my qualifications.
A complete career change that transformed my life… and, I like to believe, the lives of the many clients who have crossed my path since.
And I was the first to experience the benefits of these therapies!
This burnout had made my muscles contract so much that my bones no longer stayed in place. I was in terrible pain and could hardly lie down. I took Lamaline for 4 months. Then I gradually began to work on myself, as my courses went along, until I fully recovered.
A time of suffering that led me to happiness and fulfilment.
That is also what I offer you: to support you on the way to well-being, to help you know yourself better, understand yourself, accept and love yourself, and then share it with others.
It will be a step forward in your behaviour and the way you communicate, and it will make your daily life easier.
The rest of the adventure, either you already know it, or we will live it together…
Training
To build my skills, I followed several training courses:
- Art therapist training, IFORT (IFORTPSY, Roubaix), September 2014 to June 2016, 208 hours: certificate of completion of professional training
- Training in personal development coaching, IFORT
- Training in ondobiology, Jean-Marie Bataille (IFACE)
- Practitioner certificate in magnetism, Société française de magnétisme
- Enneagram practitioner certificate, École française d’ennéagramme (online training, 2017)
- NLP practitioner certificate, Académie francophone de PNL (online training, 2019)
- Practitioner training in Ericksonian hypnosis, École française d’hypnose
- Master practitioner training in Ericksonian hypnosis, École française d’hypnose
- Transactional analysis practitioner certificate, École française d’analyse transactionnelle (online training, 2019)
- Certification in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
These different courses allow me to adapt and, above all, to meet the needs of each of my clients.
Writing
I am also a writer, published several times since 1994: first a collection of poems, Jeunesse perdue, with Éditions du Panthéon, then on 1 April 2016 an autobiography, Mes rides, mon histoire, published by Les Éditions Jets d’encre.
When the story of little Grégory resurfaced, I revised Jeunesse perdue and published Jeunesse perdue 2 in January 2017 on Amazon. Then came a comic book, Les chakras, Kezako???, published by Bookelis in 2017, and finally, in September of the same year, my first novel, La passerelle de l’espoir, volume 1, on Amazon.
Apart from the comic book, a simple and fun way to spark interest in so-called “serious” subjects, each of you may recognise yourself in one of these books and draw a personal lesson from it. My books are written in French.
The arts
The arts have always been part of my life.
Coming from a family of artists, I started dancing at a very young age, then the piano and finally the harp. Enrolled at the first school of the arts in France, I followed the curriculum at the Grenoble Conservatory. Theatre and singing were compulsory options, so I practised those too.