My name is Noémie Gmür (she/they).
I am a certified Sex & Couple Counsellor and Hypnotherapist. I offer therapy and workshops for individuals, couples and multiple partnered relationships.
I offer therapy in English and French online or in person, in Brussels.
Care and listening have always been at the heart of my way of being in the world.
Situated Practice
As a therapist, situating the social and political position from which I speak including my privileges and experiences of marginalization, helps foster transparency, reflexivity, and awareness of how power dynamics may shape the therapeutic relationship. I don’t feel comfortable with approaches that imply I’m a blank slate, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to tell you my whole life story—don’t worry.
I am a white, Swiss-French, non-binary, body-abled, queer, neurodivergent and polyamorous human being with a middle-class background. Alongside my lived experience and political commitments, my practice is grounded in over five years of academic and clinical training.
Values
I am educating myself on systemic oppressions (fat phobia, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism…) and detecting my own prejudice in order to create a space where you can express yourselves in trust, free of judgments and taboos. My approach is based on intersectional feminism, anti-capitalism and decolonial approaches. To me, you are the expert(s) of your life experiences, your feelings, sensations, body. That’s your wisdom and I see myself as a co-driver, who’s supporting you with exploration, tools, content…
My Path to Therapy
The choice to become a therapist was the fruit of a long reflection. After 6 years working in the field of communication as a Social Media Strategist, I decided to change careers. The world of communication and advertising agencies led me to ask myself a lot of questions about the meaning I wanted to give to my work and the environment in which I was doing it. In 2018, I resigned and worked in freelance as a podcast author, director, producer and trainer. I even wrote a book on the subject called ‘L’art du Podcast’, published by Eyrolles. It explains how to start a podcast from A to Z.
My path to therapy started during my own therapy, where I was able to experiment with various approaches, such as mindfulness meditation, hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic, holistic and conversational approaches. To this, I added my field experience as a transfeminist and queer activist by conducting awareness-raising workshops on street harassment in secondary schools, with the Parisian organization Stop Harcèlement de rue (fighting against street harassment). Then, I started a podcast called “Entre Eux Deux” (now NeuroQueer Connections), in which I interviewed people who were questioning the norms in relationships and gender. Each of these encounters has nourished my research work and my growing desire to put these skills and knowledge at the service of others.
This podcast was the catalyst. A kind of laboratory for exploration and observation, it reconnected me with a dream I’d put aside for years: to become a therapist.
In 2020, I took the plunge and resumed my studies in psycho-sexology at the Paris School of Psycho-sexology. I graduated and started my practice in 2022.
After starting my practice, I noticed some of the limitations of conversational therapy for people with traumatic experiences, which I had already noticed in my own work. My supervisor recommends strategic conversational hypnosis, also known as Reassociative Trauma Psychotherapy (PTR in French). I tried it out first as a client, and, convinced of its effectiveness, decided to train in it at the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Belgium in 2023. In addition to the initial training, I also decided to take the course on sexology, led by sexologist and hypnotherapist Valérie Doyen.
Then, in 2025, I started the Advanced Master “Sexology and Sexualities Clinic” at the Université libre in Bruxelles. My Master Thesis was dealing on the introduction of the concept of Gender Euphoria in Therapy, focusing on non-binary people. Supervised by Sandrine Detandt, I got the highest honors by the jury. This now allows me to become a member of the Belgian Association of University Sexologists, and means that part of the cost of the sessions may be reimbursed (please check with your health insurance provider).
Master in Sexuality and Sexualities Clinic - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
Master Thesis on the Introduction of Gender Euphoria in Therapy, focusing on Non-Binary people (awarded the highest honors by the jury)
Sept 2024 - Sept 2025
Polyamory: Between Loyalty and Freedom: Toward a Humanistic Systems Approach, by Jean-Emmanuel Malpas ,in partnership with @CECSI and the FNRS, Brussels
March 2026
Professional training on Transidentity, by Genres Pluriels, Brussels
Oct 2024
Working With Survivors Of Sexual Assault: Empowering Post-Traumatic Growth, by Monique Dauphin, LMHC, Hudson Valley Professional Development
August 2024
Sexuality and Psychotherapy of Reassociated Traumatism (PTR) Hypnotherapy Training, by Valérie Doyen, at the Milton Erickson Institute of Belgium
December 2023 - January 2024
Reassociated Traumatism Psychotherapy Hypnotherapy Certification, by Gérald Brassine at the Milton Erickson Institute of Belgium.
September 2023 - October 2023.
Psycho-Sexology Counsellor Certification, School of Psycho-Sexology, Paris, France
October 2020 - July 2022.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program with Franziska Röster, Leipzig
November-December 2022.
Private practice in relationship & sex counselling and hypnotherapy
July 2022 - Today
Freelance trainer and trainer at the Épicentre inclusive health center on the topics of: coming in/out; trans identities; consent; BDSM & mental health, Neurodiversity & Relationships.
July 2022 - Today
Presentation at the “Second Meeting of the LGBTQI+ Young Researchers Network” conference at the University of Lyon 1, France. Title of my presentation: “Gender Euphoria and Trans Journeys: A Non-Pathologizing Approach.”
May 2026
Member of the Belgian Trans* and Inter* Psycho-medico-social Network
October 2025 - Today
Member of the Awareness Team of Mjut, A club in Leipzig
December 2022 - December 2023
Facilitation of psycho-education workshops on the myth of romantic love
2021 - Today. For the Belgian association Nobody is wrong.
Research, writing and direction work for a sound documentary on the theme of control in intimate relationships
2020 - 2023. In collaboration with the Belgian organisation FemmesProd and Nobody is wrong.
Writing, interviewing, directing and producing the French podcast "Entre Eux Deux", which deconstructs our relation ship to gender and intimate relationships
2018 - 2021.
Facilitation of psycho-education workshops on street harassment in secondary schools
2018 - 2020. For the French association Stop Harcèlement de rue, Paris (fighting against harassment in public space).

