The process - Therapie Mosaic

From EMDR to MOSAIC

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) allows the manifestations of a traumatic event to be treated by repeatedly reliving it while having the patient perform eye movements or other alternating bilateral stimulations (sounds, tactile stimulations presented alternately to the right and left). Unfortunately, despite the recognised effectiveness of this therapy, it remains very painful for patients to have to relive their traumatic memories.

It is through her research in neuroscience that Dr Khalfa was able to study the neurophysiological mechanism of these alternating bilateral stimulations (visual, auditory or tactile) leading to a transformation of the traumatic memory in order to discharge it from its emotion. From the neural model developed, she was able to co-construct the MOSAIC therapy which uses the neural properties of the alternating bilateral stimulations without the patients having to relive traumatic events.

A clarification on this subject is necessary. Since February 1, 2021, when the partnership with the co-creator came to an end, Dr. Stéphanie Khalfa has developed the MOSAIC therapy, both in its protocols and in the pedagogical teaching and content offered during training courses. She has also created new modules (Children-Adolescents, Transpersonal) and others are still in preparation. You can discover this teaching under the name of MOSAIC therapy, but also MOSAIC Khalfa therapy to recall this evolution. The two schools, including Dr. Khalfa’s, which are the only ones authorized to teach MOSAIC therapy, do not provide the same teaching. It is therefore not possible to switch from one school to the other on the basis of modules taken, which may have identical names.

The MOSAIC Therapy

The process of change proposed in MOSAIC psychotherapy sessions is based on the use of :

Alternating bilateral stimulations: acoustic or tactile stimulations, triggered alternately on the right and on the left, of the ears, knees, hands, shoulders,…
visual stimulation by horizontal jerks between the right and left, as in EMDR therapy.

→ These stimulations generate neuronal excitation and synchronization favourable to the transformation of the traumatic memory network: the reconsolidation.

MOSAIC therapy renews the protocols of psychotherapy, EMDR therapy and sensory stimulation techniques.
It combines the contributions of other psychotherapies: EMDR, Strategic Brief Therapy, Solution Therapy, Non Violent Communication, Hypnosis, ego-state therapy, Internal Family System (IFS), polyvagal theory regulations (Porges), mind-body therapies, focusing, etc.
It represents the progress of neuroscience research on the effect of alternating bilateral stimulations, such as those used in EMDR, which have allowed the creation of a theoretical and technical model of the effectiveness of these stimulations for psychotherapy.

For the patient

Part of the field of humanistic and existential therapies, MOSAIC therapy is aimed at anyone in a situation of psychological suffering who does not want to live again the problems of the past but to move towards solutions and quickly.

This therapy is aimed at all people who are suffering, whether it is due to an emotional shock, trauma, fear, anxiety, sadness, burnout, relationship problems, etc. This therapy allows the treatment of post-traumatic stress (painful events, accidents in life, aggression, bereavement, separation, attacks, etc.), depression, generalized anxiety disorders, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders, addictions, eating disorders, sleep disorders, pain, etc. ), depression, generalized anxiety disorders, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, addictions, eating disorders, sleep disorders, pain, …

This therapy is also particularly suitable for patients with complex trauma and dissociative disorders, as it avoids the traumatic exposure that reinforces the symptoms.

Patients' testimonies

"Thank you for this wonderful, healing and caring Mosaic session. It is with pleasure and enthusiasm that I recommend and invite to try this enriching and inspiring therapy. It's light, it's in a good mood. And it's also concrete and empowering. It is experiential solutionist and you can feel it. I come out of it feeling serene and I feel that it was useful to me. A very well-inverted time."

"My heart is no longer in a vice and my guts are not crushed, which is very nice. Simple but effective therapy without psychological torture, which is really amazing. "

"In just one session of MOSAIC therapy my life was transformed! My husband couldn't believe it, I was finally at peace... I pursued the therapy and the well-being really settled in my life with comfort. Thank you!"

"I am impressed with the depth of analysis in my MOSAIC therapy sessions. I have understood my behaviour, and I am solving my daily stress. I experience joy in the sessions and in my life, it is very surprising and at the same time so natural."

For the health practitioner

MOSAIC therapy can be integrated into the practice of psychiatric, psychotherapeutic or social care conducted by :

psychiatrists, doctors, psychologists,
psychotherapists, health professionals or socio-professional helpers, following or having followed a training in psychotherapy/psychology: nurses, physiotherapists, midwives, specialised educators, psychopractors, sophrologists, coaches…
specialists in the field of psychotrauma: teachers, scientists, practitioners, etc.

In therapy, it is possible and appropriate to avoid exposing patients to further suffering, and to avoid having them “relive” painful events in their lives during the session.
MOSAIC focuses on the solutions already present in the patient’s experience, by activating body sensations.

As a practitioner, MOSAIC therapy offers you comfort and quality of intervention by protecting you from any risk of vicarious trauma, but also :

You propose solutions to your patients,
You get out of the trouble area to conduct sessions without any risk of re-traumatization for your patients,
In session, you avoid dissociative phenomena, abreactions, suffering,
Thanks to its precision, the protocol facilitates the learning of the method and the conduct of subsequent sessions.

Therapists' testimonies

"Mosaic is an innovative and global approach that allows us to work gently and accurately with people, with clinical improvement in a few sessions. Thank you for this high quality training."

"A big thank you to Stéphanie for this innovative training, experiential in the sensations in the body, practical and dynamic in a friendly spirit. An extremely enriching approach that opens up a new understanding and experience of complex trauma therapy among others. Benevolence, humour, rigour and freedom! Learning is easy and stress-free. My sessions are lived in well-being, and this is a fundamental change for me, and the neuroscientific model allows me to have a structured and reassuring framework. Thank you again Stéphanie for this revolution!"

"Helping my clients better and more effectively in therapy is the goal I share with all therapists (I hope). There is nothing worse than to find that a therapy is not working. To help them I have a range of tools at my disposal, NLP, hypnosis, ego states and MOSAIC. I really want to meet the needs of my patients and get them back into the flow of life. So I was obviously pleasantly surprised by MOSAIC therapy. Treating traumas (simple and complex), phobias, OCD, anxiety disorders, addictions, depression, becomes, thanks to MOSAIC, much more effective. The therapy is more joyful, solution-oriented and focused on the desired sensations. For me, MOSAIC has really made me evolve in my accompaniments and I encourage you to train yourself as well."

Accessibility to disabled people

It is important to inform us of your disabled status before the training course so that we can take the necessary measures to welcome you in the best conditions.

Pedagogical accessibility of training courses: prepare your welcome even before receiving you (in accordance with the law of 11 February 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people) by developing the capacity of our teams to organise the compensation of disability in training as much as necessary by choosing adapted training premises (administration / training venues).