How Aline works
First experience. Then understand.
Most help for parents begins with talking. This one begins with being there.
The first week
One week, a clear frame, a clear end. And everything in it has its reason.
The week: three visits, in the midst of everyday life
Within one week, Aline comes to your home three times, two to three hours each, into the moments that really count: a morning, a dinner, a bedtime.
She is there, looks closely, and joins in where it’s natural. No observing from behind a clipboard, no lecturing in between. What she brings is a way of being with the child. And that can’t be explained, only experienced.
Three visits, close together: that creates a momentum single appointments never reach. Many families sense between the first and the third visit that the atmosphere is changing.
That’s why the visits come first, and the conversations after.
Afterwards: two conversations
Only now comes the talking: two phone calls of 30 to 45 minutes.
The first a few days after the week. What did Aline see, what is already changing? The second a good two weeks later, with a single question at its centre: how is it holding?
The conversations build on what everyone has felt by then. That’s why they carry further than any theory.
At the end: a letter for the hard moments
At the end, the family receives a letter from Aline. But not one you read once and put away.
This letter is made to be taken out again: for the evenings when everything tips, and for the mornings that end in battle once more. It connects what Aline saw in this one family with what needs remembering exactly then.
What the child is actually expressing when it rages, clings or shuts down. What already holds in this family and is so easily forgotten in exhaustion. For every recurring hard moment, a few lines: what is happening in the child then, what to hold on to, what may be let go. And at the end, a single sentence to keep, one that belongs to this family alone.
Beautifully printed, on good paper, folded so the most important page is found within five seconds. Made to live where everyday life happens: in the kitchen drawer, on the fridge.
Not a report. A piece of paper you take out when you need it. Again and again.
Afterwards: the open door
The first week has an end, and that’s deliberate. Afterwards the door stays open: a voice message is enough, any time.
If Aline sees a reason to continue, she suggests it. If not, not.
From the first visit to the last conversation
Aline can be reached by voice message. For the small moments in between, the questions in the evening, whatever just happened.
The frame
The first week
CHF1'800
One amount, everything included. No hourly rates, no surprises.
- Three visits at hometwo to three hours each, in the midst of real everyday life
- Two conversations afterwards30 to 45 minutes, by phone
- The letter for the hard momentsprinted on good paper, made to be taken out again
- Aline by voice messagefrom the first visit to the last conversation
Altogether about a month of support. For families in the Freiburg region there is an adjusted price: Aline lives there, the journey is shorter.
- Where
- at the family’s home, in Basel and the surrounding area. Also in the region between Freiburg and Basel. The conversations by phone.
- When
- That is decided together: where everyday life weighs heaviest, and so that it fits the family’s calendar. Weekends are possible too, and often especially revealing. They are the days when everyone is home.
- With whom
- with parents and child. The work is for the family as a whole: for what happens between everyone, not for one individual.
- Languages
- Voice messages welcome in Swiss German, German, English or French. Aline replies in German, English or French.
- Capacity
- Aline supports only a few families at a time, so that each family gets the attention this is all about.
Good to know
No. On the contrary: the more normal the everyday, the more Aline sees. The chaos is welcome to stay.
Not therapy, not a parenting course, not childcare. Aline doesn’t replace a medical or therapeutic assessment, and she says so openly when she recommends one.
That’s common, and it’s fine. Scepticism is welcome at the table. Usually it takes care of itself during the first visit.
The first step takes a minute.
Just tell her what’s going on. Aline listens to every message herself and replies personally, within two working days, usually sooner.
Confidential, always.Monthly letter
Once a month, a short observation from everyday family life, written by Aline.
Not a newsletter. A letter.
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