How Aline works
First experience. Then understand.
Most help for parents begins with talking. This one begins with being there.
The week
One week, a clear frame, a clear end. And everything in it has its reason.
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: perhaps a morning, a dinner, a bedtime. Which ones they are in your family is something you decide with Aline beforehand.
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
There is talking during the visits too, of course, in passing, in the middle of it all. The real conversation comes now: 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, you receive a letter from Aline. Not a report, and not one you read once and put away.
Everything in it was gathered during this one week and written for your family alone: what your child is actually expressing when they rage, cling or shut down. What already holds in your home and is so easily forgotten in exhaustion. For every recurring hard moment, a few lines, written to touch exactly the right place: in you and in your child.
And at the end, a single sentence to keep, one that belongs to your 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: on the fridge, in the kitchen drawer. For the evenings when everything tips. Again and again.
Afterwards: the open door
The 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 two weeks after the last conversation
Aline can be reached by voice message. For the small moments in between, the questions in the evening, whatever just happened.
And this line does not end with the last conversation: it stays open for two full weeks after, for everything that only shows itself in everyday life.
The frame
The guidance
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 two weeks after the last conversation
Altogether about a month of guidance.
Not every family has the means for this right now. That is why Aline gives away a full course of guidance every month: the family scholarship. What the family gives in return, the family decides at the end.
- Where
- at the family’s home, in Basel and the surrounding area. 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. When it begins also depends on Aline’s calendar.
- 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. So a free place is not always there right away: Aline looks at each situation individually and moves forward what cannot wait. If something is happening that needs guidance now: better a voice message today than in a month.
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.
That is exactly Aline’s work. She doesn’t push. She comes slowly, stays calm and lets your child set the pace. First connection, then change. Once the basis is there, the rest usually moves faster than you’d expect at the start.
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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