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CERTIFIED THERAPIST & LIFE COACH · Nyon & Geneva

A lifetime spent taming stress and transformation.

Not by chance — by passion. From high-pressure market finance to desert crossings, the jungles of Réunion and open-water expeditions, I have spent my career exploring the limits of human resilience under stress. To better help you transform yours.

 RELAXOLOGY THERAPIST

 MEDICAL BASE TRAINING 1, 2, 3

RÉUNION ISLAND CROSSING 160KM IN 45 HOURS

3 CONTINENTS

25 YEARS IN CORPORATE

CERTIFIED LIFE COACH RMT100

DESERT CROSSING 250KM IN SEMI SELF-SUFFICIENCY

MY FOUNDING PASSION

Stress has always fascinated me. It is an adaptive process that enables transformation.

FINANCE - HIGH PRESSURE

The trading floor

Irreversible decisions made in fractions of a second, relentless pressure, progressive exhaustion. A living laboratory for understanding chronic stress from the inside. Managing people also taught me that we are all unique — and that what works for one person does not work for all.

From the very beginning, stress was a territory to explore — and I was far from being the best at handling it. Why is this happening in my body? Why do I want to avoid going in that direction? That preoccupation became a fascination — one that was not born in a practice or a classroom. It was born in the field, through the most demanding situations I could find.

I deliberately chose high-pressure environments — the trading floor, extreme sports, desert crossings — precisely to understand what stress does to a human being. How it accelerates, paralyses, reveals. How it can be used rather than endured. Thirty years later, that passion has become clinical expertise. I went back to school to learn. Theoretical foundations matter to me in my practice. In a world that talks a great deal and dispenses advice freely, the ability to structure one's thinking carries great value.

An ASCA-accredited therapist specialising in stress management and a certified life coach, I have guided dozens of people through that same terrain — their own.

ENDURANCE - DESERT - JUNGLE- SEA

Crossings & extreme sports

Pour voir jusqu'où l'envie d'abandonner peut aller — et découvrir qu'elle n'est jamais une vérité. Ces épreuves m'ont appris à lire le mental sous contrainte physique totale.

AAFRICA – EUROPE – USA

Three continents of immersion

Every culture has its own relationship with stress, performance, and the body. Living and working across three continents gave me a cross-cultural and deeply human perspective.

CERTIFICATION (ASCA, RMT100, BM 1,2,3)

From the field to the clinic

Raw experience is one thing — but to practise this profession, it seemed essential to me, with humility, to complete several recognised, rigorous training programmes. I have since completed three demanding certifications in therapy, physiology, and coaching, which I now bring to my clients in Nyon, Geneva, and online.

Mon parcours

​​ Certified life coach

​​▸ ASCA accredited therapist

​​▸ Stress management – trading floor

​​▸ Extreme sports & desert crossings

​​▸ 3 continents: Africa, Europe, USA

​​▸ #1 life coach · Nyon · 72 Google reviews

My relationship with stress began long before coaching. I actively sought out the environments where it manifests most clearly — not to prove something to myself, but because I wanted to understand it. The trading floor first: a world where every decision carries an immediate cost, where pressure is relentless and exhaustion sets in without warning.

Alongside that, extreme sports. Desert crossings — to observe, in real conditions, what the urge to quit does to the body and the mind. To learn to face it without obeying it. These experiences gave me an embodied knowledge of stress that no book could ever have provided.

I lived and worked across three continents — Africa, Europe, the United States — and each cultural context offered me a different lens on resilience, and on our relationship with the body, work, and meaning. This unconventional path is today the backbone of my method. Grounded in solid training in therapy and coaching, it is entirely at the service of your transformation.

A PATH TRAVELLED

One passion, one common thread

 MY PHILOSOPHY

6 pillars that guide my work

An approach grounded in human and evolutionary science — because understanding why we function the way we do is the first step toward change.

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Body & mind are connected

An approach grounded in human and evolutionary science — because understanding why we function the way we do is the first step toward change.

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🌱

 You are what you consume

We are the product of what we eat, what we hear, and what we see. Your environment shapes you constantly — physically, informationally, socially.

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  200,000 years of evolution

​​Fear, anger, procrastination — deeply rooted and perfectly adapted to our ancestors. Poorly suited to the 21st century. Understanding their origin is how we reclaim the power to act.

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Built to move

Movement is not just a matter of physical fitness. Those who move their body think and act differently. The body in motion is a tool for cognitive transformation.

05

🤝  

Connection is vital

We are not built to be alone. To connect, to belong, to have authentic relationships — these are fundamental needs. Isolation is one of the greatest amplifiers of stress.

06

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Meaning is the engine

We are built to have a purpose. Bringing meaning to your actions and your life — that is what transforms effort into momentum. Without direction, even the purest energy is not enough.

"Stress is not your enemy

 it's a signal you haven't learned to read yet."

MARCO PAO – LIFE COACH & ASCA THERAPIST

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