Who I am
Dania Balohé Lacourrège
- Master’s Degree (Research) in English Language, Literature and Civilization – University of Tours
- Certified English Teacher.
- Certified Death Doula – Institut Deuils & Doulas de Fin de Vie (France)
- Currently completing certification in Transgenerational Analysis – Généapsy Institute
- Trained in post-mortem make-up – Make Up For Ever Academy.
- Ambassador for the association Happy End and co-facilitator of “Les Apéros de la Mort” in Tours
- Co-facilitator of Family Cafés for Caton Funeral Homes in Tours and Orléans.
- Certified Trainer – Happy End and Ensemble Formation.
8+
years of teaching
2+
Years of therapeutic experience
7+
Partners
My approach
The Path of Aliveness
Aliveness is not a concept.
It’s a movement that begins in the body, passes through emotion and memory, and rises toward meaning.It’s the art of letting what has died be acknowledged, so that what longs to live may find its way again. This is not traditional therapy.It is a journey back to the living —
a space where the soul, the body, and the story meet.
My approach rests on four foundations:
Grief as transformation
Grief is not only about loss — it’s a passage toward meaning.
When it’s allowed to unfold, it becomes a creative force.
Transgenerational analysis
Understanding the invisible loyalties, repetitions, and emotional inheritances within our lineage.
Letting go of what is not ours to carry, and reclaiming our rightful place in the family story.
Symbolization and ritual
Words are not always enough.
The body, gesture, and ritual give form to what is unspeakable — they allow completion and renewal.
Embodied presence and breath
The body remembers what the mind has silenced.
Reconnecting with breath, rhythm, and sensation restores safety and vitality.
Testimonials
Words of passage
My role
Holding the Threshold
I work with gentleness, depth, and intuition, always allowing what emerges to guide the process.
The frame is steady yet alive — like a breath.
I invite the body, the story, the lineage, and the symbol to come into dialogue, so that the person can find coherence, meaning, and movement again.
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To be a therapist of aliveness is to hold space for the threshold.
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Not to save or to lead, but to walk alongside — within a grounded, ethical, and compassionate therapeutic framework.
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To be present when the old no longer fits, when the new is not yet born, and when life, quietly, begins to move again.
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Supporting the return to movement, so you can reinvest in your life.
Dania Balohé Lacourrège
Thérapeute de la Vivance | Thanadoula & Praticienne en Analyse Transgénérationnelle | Formatrice
My background
Between Heritage and Passage
Before becoming a therapist, I was a teacher, guiding minds and critical thinkers.
Life has since taken me to other shores — those of grief, change, and the deep memory of lineage.
Trained in grief accompaniment and transgenerational analysis, and deeply shaped by years of personal exploration — migration, war, loss, chronic illness — I have woven these dimensions into a unified practice:
Aliveness Therapy.
I accompany people through grief, trauma, illness, and profound transitions.
Those who no longer wish to survive, but to reinvest in life itself.
Together, we restore connection, meaning, and vitality — in the body, in the breath, in the present moment.
It is a work of transformation.
It is also, deeply, a work of love.
If you are ready to meet life again — in all its tenderness and depth —
I will walk with you, at your pace.
The passage begins the moment you stop running from what calls to be felt.