I’m Damien,
integrative practitioner — burnout & life reconstruction.

And before becoming a practitioner, I lived what I now accompany.

For 25 years, I worked in IT — leading systems, networks, teams. A world where everything is logical, structured, measurable. And yet, even there, I sensed that another part of me was looking for a way to express itself. I just didn’t know what it was yet.

In May 2016, my brain shut down. One evening at 5pm, my eyes locked onto a single pixel on the screen. No more connection. Just enough lucidity to take the train, get back to Metz, and collapse.

It was burnout. The real thing. Not a week off — six months of complete emptiness.

No physical energy. No emotions. No meaning. A wearing-down of the soul that I could never have understood without going through it from the inside. It was in this emptiness that the other path began to reveal itself.

What this passage taught me, I couldn’t have learned any other way.

I worked with a psychologist. I observed everything, documented everything — how energy drains away on four levels at once: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. That’s where the PEMS method was born.

Then I went back to study. A Master’s degree in professional coaching (RNCP Level 7), with a thesis devoted to the four dimensions of exhaustion. During Covid, while opening a practice in ayurvedic massage, I discovered something I hadn’t expected: my ability to sense and release the energies the body holds. Four years of training in shiatsu confirmed what I had been sensing — everything in the body is interconnected, exactly like the systems I had been managing in IT.

And karate, which I have practised for 20 years, taught me something IT never gave me: the mastery of energy in motion. Sensing intention before the gesture. Channelling rather than enduring. It has become the invisible thread running through my entire approach.

Today, I am not a practitioner because I studied burnout. I am a practitioner because I lived it, embodied it, understood it — and moved beyond it.

What I actually do

Setting yourself in motion again after exhaustion isn’t something you can simply decide. It’s built layer by layer, at a pace that belongs to you.

I support people through exhaustion — before, during, and after — with an integrative approach that combines:

» Professional coaching (rebuilding meaning and direction)
» Energy work and magnetism (releasing what the body carries)
» Mindfulness-based hypnosis (understanding the roots, strengthening inner resources)
» Shiatsu (deep rebalancing)

I do not intervene during the acute phase of burnout — that role belongs to conventional health professionals. But I’m there before things reach that point, and afterwards, so that reconstruction is sustainable and doesn’t leave the door open to a relapse.

There is a before and an after burnout. The hardest part is setting yourself in motion again. That’s exactly where I come in — so that the “after” becomes your new beginning.