Professional career and Publications
A few words about my career
My professional career began as a statutory auditor in audit companies, and I haven’t regretted it, because auditing assignments across France have enabled me to discover the genius of human beings in the creation and implementation of industrial and logistical processes, from car engines to valves in the nuclear industry, via the steel industry, furniture manufacture and even ice cream!
This desire to reach out to others led me to join the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a change of air and of area with the so-called developing countries at the time. A 1st period focused on risks and project financing gave me the opportunity to learn about project management in complex environments in some thirty countries in Africa, Asia and North Africa. All that was missing was the day-to-day human dimension. So in 2008 I decided to embark on a new professional life, still working for AFD, focusing on crises.
Mobile library. Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
November 2012. Photo: Th Liscia
What a wonderful experience to have been one of the three pioneers of the Crises and Conflicts Unit when it was set up, and to have been able, thanks to open-minded colleagues and quality partners, to introduce and develop the theme of mental health and psychosocial support in our post-crisis projects, while at the same time taking my degree in clinical psychology, which I obtained in 2012.
Then came the years of expatriation from 2013 to 2021, in Burkina Faso and Lebanon, with their bracing moments of friendship and stimulating projects, particularly in community mental health in Lebanon with the National Mental Health Programme and Médecins du Monde France, and the more painful ones, between terrorist attack, national rebellion, explosion and social crisis.
1st community mental health centre financed by an AFD project.
Koutoufou, Chad, April 2012. Photo: Th Liscia
Rafiq Hariri Hospital Community Mental Health Center.
Beirut, Lebanon, July 2021. Photo: Farah Asfahani
Academic career in psychology and psychotherapy
2023 : EMDR level 2 certification, French School of EMDR Psychotherapy (EFPE)
2023 : First Aid in Mental Health Certification, PSSM France
2022 : EMDR level 1 certification, French School of EMDR Psychotherapy (EFPE)
2020 : Level 1 & 2 Enneagram certifications, Centre for Enneagram Studies
2012 : Professional Masters in Clinical Psychology, Université Paris VIII
2007 : Transactional Analysis 101 certification, School of Transactional Analysis
Publications
Interview: Mental health must be seen as a fundamental lever for development programs, Farah Asfahani and Thierry Liscia, AFD, June 2020
Opinion column: Well-being, the basis of development? on the ID4D (ideas4development) website (2017)
Book: Taking into account the psychological trauma of populations – What methods of intervention for AFD in post-conflict States?, J. Milleliri and T. Liscia, Ed. Univ. Europ., November 2013
Article: The psychosocial treatment of psychological trauma in populations in post-conflict countries, T. Liscia and J. Milleliri, Médecine Tropicale, April 2011
Public speeches
- National Assembly information mission on national resilience: “Round table on the psychological consequences of large-scale crises”, October 2021
Watch the video on the French National Assembly website (session starts at 1 h 19′ 47″) : Link
Watch the video on Dailymotion if you have difficulty viewing it with the previous link: Link
- Webinar organised by the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires: “Explosion: what impact on mental health and how to respond?”, Beirut, August 2020.
- Exchange workshop: “The psychosocial response to the needs of vulnerable populations in Lebanon: how to ensure the Humanitarian – development transition”, French Institute, Beirut, December 2017.
- Conference: “Combining the fight against poverty, social cohesion and mental health”, in collaboration with Handicap International, AFD, Paris, November 2012.
Summary of the conference to view or download on the vimeo website (link)
About Me
A few words about my career
My professional career began as a statutory auditor in audit companies, and I haven’t regretted it, because auditing assignments across France have enabled me to discover the genius of human beings in the creation and implementation of industrial and logistical processes, from car engines to valves in the nuclear industry, via the steel industry, furniture manufacture and even ice cream!
This desire to reach out to others led me to join the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a change of air and of area with the so-called developing countries at the time. A 1st period focused on risks and project financing gave me the opportunity to learn about project management in complex environments in some thirty countries in Africa, Asia and North Africa. All that was missing was the day-to-day human dimension. So in 2008 I decided to embark on a new professional life, still working for AFD, focusing on crises.
What a wonderful experience to have been one of the three pioneers of the Crises and Conflicts Unit when it was set up, and to have been able, thanks to open-minded colleagues and quality partners, to introduce and develop the theme of mental health and psychosocial support in our post-crisis projects, while at the same time taking my degree in clinical psychology, which I obtained in 2012.
Then came the years of expatriation from 2013 to 2021, in Burkina Faso and Lebanon, with their bracing moments of friendship and stimulating projects, particularly in community mental health in Lebanon with the National Mental Health Programme and Médecins du Monde France, and the more painful ones, between terrorist attack, national rebellion, explosion and social crisis.
Academic career in psychology and psychotherapy
- 2023 : EMDR level 2 certification, French School of EMDR Psychotherapy (EFPE)
- 2023 : First Aid in Mental Health Certification, PSSM France
- 2022 : EMDR level 1 certification, French School of EMDR Psychotherapy (EFPE)
- 2020 : Level 1 & 2 Enneagram certifications, Centre for Enneagram Studies
- 2012 : Professional Masters in Clinical Psychology, Université Paris VIII
- 2007 : Transactional Analysis 101 certification, School of Transactional Analysis
Publications
Interview: Mental health must be seen as a fundamental lever for development programs, Farah Asfahani and Thierry Liscia, AFD, June 2020
Opinion column: Well-being, the basis of development? on the ID4D (ideas4development) website (2017)
Book: Taking into account the psychological trauma of populations – What methods of intervention for AFD in post-conflict States?, J. Milleliri and T. Liscia, Ed. Univ. Europ., November 2013
Article: The psychosocial treatment of psychological trauma in populations in post-conflict countries, T. Liscia and J. Milleliri, Médecine Tropicale, April 2011
Public speeches
- National Assembly information mission on national resilience: “Round table on the psychological consequences of large-scale crises”, October 2021
Watch the video on the French National Assembly website (session starts at 1 h 19′ 47″) : Link
Watch the video on Dailymotion if you have difficulty viewing it with the previous link: Link
- Webinar organised by the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires: “Explosion: what impact on mental health and how to respond?”, Beirut, August 2020.
- Exchange workshop: “The psychosocial response to the needs of vulnerable populations in Lebanon: how to ensure the Humanitarian – development transition”, French Institute, Beirut, December 2017
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- Conference: “Combining the fight against poverty, social cohesion and mental health”, in collaboration with Handicap International, AFD, Paris, November 2012.
Summary of the conference to view or download on the vimeo website (link)