Roxana Tocaciu
Psychologist and Psychotherapist
Doctor in Clinical Psychopathology
Specialised in psychosocial risks and stress in the workplace

​​Beyond the invariables of human suffering, our era brings its own share of hardships. In our hyperconnected environments, the rhythms of our lives are subjected to the tempo of the virtual world. The psychological pressure of immediacy is overwhelming, the sense of urgency, stifling. Entire sections of our existence are calculated and prescribed by algorithms imposing their demands and vision of total accomplishment - professional, socio-economic, sexual, family, and even overall happiness. The resulting failure leaves room for an agonizing and painful awareness of our limits and fragilities.

Once the emotional and psychological space has been confiscated, the subject of the present often finds itself trapped in a headlong rush, symptomatic of the ills of our time.

Coping with suffering in the professional environment and beyond

The workplace dramatically contributes to the emergence of current forms of psychological suffering. The relentless pursuit of performance and competitiveness, quantified and managed by numbers and data, with the imperative of efficiency and productivity taking precedence over any other work ethic... transforms places of professional practice into arenas of tense psychological conflict. This produces increasingly frequent forms of characteristic suffering such as burnout, harassment, depression, addiction, psychosomatic manifestations; which over time, and in the absence of any adequate response or recognition, can lead to real acute or chronic pathologies.

We cannot escape our human condition, nor our time, nor even the pathologies that currently plague the world of work. If one of these evils afflicts us, it will often have broader repercussions, affecting many aspects of our lives. This risk is all the more present in a context where there is no longer a clear demarcation between our different living spaces and activities - professional, family, intimate, leisure.

Why resort to a psychologist?
 

The way each person is impacted by these different difficulties is personal, intimate, part of a unique life path, and will in turn be redesigned by the outcome of these trials. The subject in pain mobilizes his own resources in the crossing but, despite the will and the effort put into play, sometimes over long periods and to the point of exhaustion, the trials can prove tenacious.

It is important in these situations to be able to recognize one's own limits and fragilities, to agree to open oneself to the possibility of external help. When the person has taken this decisive step - which requires courage, determination, and confidence - the psychologist is one of the professionals to turn to for support in overcoming this moment of stagnation in the breach of one's own fragility, towards a reconstruction of oneself.

Who is Roxana Tocaciu

Roxana Tocaciu is a psychologist psychotherapist (Master 2, Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot); Doctor in Clinical Psychopathology (PhD, Université Aix-Marseille); and university lecturer on current forms of suffering generated by the world of work - psychosocial risks (Université de Paris Cité). No ADELI 759380413.

Roxana Tocaciu has over 12 years of experience in clinical work on psychosocial risks in professional environments, the issue of expatriation, the challenges of sociocultural adaptation to new environments, as well as family issues such as the challenges of couple life, domestic violence, and the impasses of parenthood.

Her practice of psychotherapy is based on a psychodynamic frame of reference in both theoretical and clinical approach, to which are added the perspectives of psychosociology and psychoanalytic anthropology for the reading of social phenomena specific to our time, as well as the technical contributions of systemic approaches, CBT, NLP, transactional analysis and experiential psychotherapy, which will be used according to the needs of the patient in the different stages of his psychotherapy.

In her practice, in addition to individual therapeutic support, discussion groups and supervisions with health professionals, expatriation specialists and HR managers and specialists occupy a central place.

What Dr Roxana Tocaciu provides

Roxana Tocaciu offers consultations in the secure setting of her office in Vincennes, as well as by video consultation, in French and English, for the following services:

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• Consultations, assessments, follow-ups and individual psychotherapies (on-site and remotely)

• Presentations, interventions, awareness-raising training on Psychosocial Risks and Hazards in institutions and the workplace.

• Group workshops, as well as practice analysis, supervision, therapeutic accompaniment and support:

  • in medical and social environments (daily exposure to the suffering of others, to loss, to death, and institutional violence - towards and between professionals - present in these workplaces)

  • in companies faced with the Psychosocial Risks and Hasards (difficulties of managers and employees facing reorganizations, remote work or hybrid forms, expatriation and cultural diversity within multinational companies and international organizations)

• Management of family difficulties - couple and parenthood - in the context of expatriation (distance from the family and isolation; challenges related to the change of geographical and cultural environment for the expatriate family)

Areas of specialization

Dr. Roxana Tocaciu specializes in the following areas:
 

1. Psychosocial risks in the workplace - PSR

   • psychological suffering experienced in the workplace

   • hyper-competitiveness in the workplace

   • coping with continuous change in workplace organization

   • conflicts and harassment (moral or sexual)

   • professional exhaustion, overwork, burn-out

   • professional or non-professional accidents impacting career development

   • dealing with strenuous and unsaid aspects of institutional dynamics

   • challenges of professional expatriation, with its impact on the family level - couple and parenthood

   • balance between professional life and socio-family life (work-life balance)

2. Issues of subjective psychological suffering

   • feeling of inadequacy

   • lack of self-confidence, self-image issues

   • loss, mourning

   • depression, bipolarity, hypothymia

   • anxiety disorders

   • obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD)

   • stress

   • relationship difficulties

   • abandonment, feelings of loneliness

3. Family life

   • difficulties in married life

   • psychological influence

   • abuse

   • verbal, physical, sexual violence

   • separation and mourning

   • parenthood

   • conflicts intra-familial

   • intergenerational issues and symbolic inheritances