Who are we ?

Founded in 2023 by two passionate about psychology and pedagogy, the European School of Psychology - ESPÉ wants to offer a different teaching format giving a central place to practice and international openness by putting the student experience at the heart of the School's project

The founders

Renaud Martellon

Founder and CEO

Graduated from Edhec and Insead, I wish to transpose the “Grande Ecole” experience to the teaching of psychology with the benefits of international openness and professionalization through internships and associative activities. throughout schooling, but also via academic requirements.

Deputy CEO of the Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens for 5 years, I want to propose a new way of teaching psychology by placing the student at the center of the educational project so that these years of study are a period of inner transformation and a human adventure full of encounters.

Jean-Denis Blanc

Co-Founder and Director of the Programs

Psychologist and entrepreneur, I want to support an innovative pedagogy and expand the horizons of psychology practice beyond its traditional uses, enabling our graduates to address the future challenges of our society.

As a lecturer in the Master's program at Paris Dauphine University since 2018, I aspire to leverage my experience to offer students an academic journey of excellence and provide individual support as they embark on their professional projects within a structured and supportive framework.

The educational project

On the strength of our experience at the direction of the Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens, we wanted to develop an unprecedented educational project in the landscape of psychology training which is based on 5 principles:

The center of our pedagogical project

By creating a training center based on the Quebec model of the university clinic and by multiplying experiences in the field from the first year of the Bachelor's degree, ESPÉ wants its students to be directly employable on leaving the School by benefiting from 2 600 hours (a year and a half) of professional experience, more than 5 times more than the minimum required at the university to obtain the title of psychologist and psychotherapist.

In addition, our teachers are essentially practicing psychologists or researchers who have kept a practice so that the content of the courses and the cases studied are as close as possible to what awaits our graduates in their future professional life.

Finally, noting that many young psychology graduates wish to quickly set up their structure, practical lessons allow our students to work on their own entrepreneurial project within the School itself, benefiting from the advice and experience of their teacher in order to begin their activity once the diploma is obtained.

Internships at ESPÉ

An open psychology

By offering courses ranging from psychoanalysis to existential psychology via cognitive therapies and behavioral skills (CBT), ESPÉ trains practitioners mastering the different approaches, capable of adapting their practices in the face of the problems encountered with their patient and to enrich their interventions with the latest advances in research in psychology.

In addition, the basis in social psychology and psychology of management being very present throughout their course, ESPÉ is open to the business world. Its graduates are not confined to mental health and are legitimate to pursue a career in business where their knowledge of psychology favorably differentiates them from other seasoned professionals, open to others and their differences.

An international experience

Convincess that a semester abroad on a university exchange, internship or as a volunteer is a transforming experience and an accelerator of maturity, we want to allow each student to benefit from this opportunity. Moreover, it is a key element of professionalization and very differentiating at a time when intercultural issues are omnipresent in mental health issues.

The last "E" of ESPÉ is that of European. This shows the international dimension of the educational project which also has the desire to offer, from the start of the 2025 academic year, a 100% English-speaking Bachelor's degree for French students but also those from abroad wishing to become the therapists of tomorrow. The international will then be at the heart of our campus.

International at ESPE

Differentiating and professionalizing specializations

Most of the masters offered at the university have specialized in a psychological approach rather than on a sector of activity or a particular public. By offering a "Psychology of humanitarian and solidarity action" course and a "Family psychology" course, the ESPÉ Master of Science trains therapists who can be directly employed or specialized in a given audience.

The same goes for the Bachelors which offer options in the 3rd year "Psychology of humanitarian and solidarity action" (complementary to the MSc of the same name) or "Psychology of the elderly".

A rich student life

The "Grande École" experience also involves a dynamic student life with a strong sense of belonging carried by the idea that studying in a school is not just about taking courses.

Meetings and exchanges during an associative project or during an event organized by the students themselves greatly contribute to the construction of young students into seasoned professionals, open to others and their differences.

Student experience