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Mélissa Florian is a clinical psychologist in Tournai and Mons, and a PhD candidate at the University of Mons, where her thesis deals with persistent conflict between separated parents. In 2026 she published an article in the Cahiers de psychologie clinique with Jennifer Denis and Justine Gaugue.

Mélissa Florian is a clinical psychologist. She sees children, adolescents and adults at Psy.C.O.Log, the University of Mons consultation centre, and at the Centre Psylo (Tournai). She is a PhD candidate at the University of Mons, where her thesis deals with persistent conflict between separated parents, and works at the Espace Parents dans la Séparation.

Mélissa Florian is a clinical psychologist. She sees children, adolescents and adults at Psy.C.O.Log, the University of Mons consultation centre, and at the Centre Psylo (Tournai). Trained in parental burnout, in work with people who have lived through trauma, in brief systemic therapy and in clinical hypnosis, she also works at the Espace Parents dans la Séparation, in Mons. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Mons: her thesis deals with persistent conflict between separated parents and is supervised by Justine Gaugue and co-supervised by Jennifer Denis. In 2026 she published an article with them in the Cahiers de psychologie clinique.

Mélissa Florian is a clinical psychologist. She sees children, adolescents and adults at Psy.C.O.Log, the University of Mons consultation centre, and at the Centre Psylo, in Tournai.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychological and educational sciences from the University of Mons (2020) and obtained her master’s degree in psychological sciences at UCLouvain in 2022, with distinction. In 2022, alongside her master’s degree, she trained in parental burnout at the Training Institute for Psychology and Health; from 2022 to 2024 she obtained certifications there in work with people who have lived through trauma and in the care of behaviour disorders in children and adolescents. From 2022 to 2026 she trained in brief systemic therapy and clinical hypnosis at the Centre Cahaya.

She has been a PhD candidate at the University of Mons since September 2024, in the Department of Clinical Psychology, supervised by Justine Gaugue and co-supervised by Jennifer Denis. Her thesis is entitled Les séparations parentales hautement conflictuelles : élaboration d’un cadre théorique et d’un référentiel de compétences professionnelles [High-conflict parental separations: developing a theoretical framework and a competency framework for professionals]. She also works at the Espace Parents dans la Séparation, in Mons, in parent guidance.

In 2026 she published, with Jennifer Denis and Justine Gaugue, the article La haine comme lien : du conflit parental à la haine de l’autre [Hatred as a relational bond: From parental conflict to hatred of the other] in the Cahiers de psychologie clinique. She presented a poster at the annual meeting of the BAPS in Brussels (May 2025), gave a paper at the 2e Congrès international de l’ARCh at the Université de Liège (December 2025) and led an online workshop for the BAPS Junior Board on the dual role of clinician-researcher (January 2026).