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A 45-minute consultation to get clarity on your project

You explain your situation. You leave with your question clearly framed, three ordered actions, and a tool built during the session.

45 minutes · video call · €70 · written note within 48 hours

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Would you rather talk about it first? 20 minutes, no strings attached.

Often, the real question lies elsewhere

When you’re preparing to become an independent assistant, the questions all arrive at once. Your legal status. Your rates. Your first clients. How to present yourself.

What we see in consultations is that the question asked at the start is rarely the one that’s really holding you back.

A few examples, heard often.

“I don’t know which legal status to choose.”

Legal status gets settled in an hour. The decision to actually start takes longer.

“I don’t know what to put in my offer.”

An offer becomes clear once you know who it’s for.

“I don’t dare show my rates.”

Pricing is a calculation. Owning it is something else.

“I don’t have any clients.”

Often, no one has actually been contacted yet.

“I still need more training first.”

The experience you already have counts for more than one more certificate.

“I’m overwhelmed.”

You lighten everyone else’s load all day long. Rarely your own.

“I don’t know if this line of work is for me.”

No assessment will answer that for you. A trial run will.

"Everyone else seems to be pulling it off better than me."

You're comparing your backstage to their storefront window. Their slow months aren't shown anywhere.

This shift rarely happens alone. You can circle your own question for weeks without managing to say it out loud.

That’s the work of these 45 minutes.

How these 45 minutes work

The format is the same every time. Knowing it in advance means you’re not walking in with knots in your stomach.

Before the meeting
Three Questions

When you book, you answer three short questions: where you stand, what's holding you back, and by when you'd like it resolved. The consultant prepares the session from your answers.

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The first ten minutes
You lay it out

You describe your situation in your own words. No one interrupts. This is the moment to say things out of order — they'll be put back in order right after.

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The Heart of the Discussion
We lay out the subject

The consultant rephrases and writes in front of you: a diagram, a table, a comparison. Built with your own words, as you speak. This is often where something clicks back into place.

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The End
Three actions and a tool

Three actions, in order, each with a date. What to do alone, what's better done with someone else. You receive a one-page written note within 48 hours, along with the tool built together.

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Meet Your Training Expert

You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out. That’s precisely what these 45 minutes are for.

Depending on the question you bring, you’ll speak with the member of the team whose experience is most useful for your situation.

Manon knows the reality of the profession from the inside. She has been doing it for more than ten years, and Formassista grew out of that experience.

Didier specialises in business creation and the decisions that turn an idea into a viable project. He helps turn questions, doubts and still-unformed ideas into clearer decisions and practical next steps.

Marion works as a virtual assistant herself, alongside her work as a trainer.

Hélène works on posture: legitimacy, confidence, and everything that comes into play the moment you introduce yourself as a professional.

Leila, Virginie and Audrey complete the team: first steps into working solo for some, long daily practice of the freelance assistant profession for others.

Different backgrounds, one approach: listening first, understanding where you really are, then helping you decide what comes next. Often by opening up options you hadn’t considered. Never by fitting your project into a ready-made answer.

Your answers when you book decide who you speak with.

Helene Delmas Lebrun

A consultation isn't right for everyone

Sometimes an hour isn’t the right format. Better to say so here than let you find out afterward.

Audrey Pinel, assistante de Formassista, assistante indépendante spécialisée depuis 2022 et intervenante coach en création

Your situation

What fits best

You have a specific question and want to move quickly

The 45-minute consultation

You're starting from further back and have training rights (CPF, France Travail, OPCO)

The training Managing a business-creation project: 26 hours, certifying, financeable up to 100%

You're still employed and can't block out four weeks during the day

One-on-one support spread over several months

You want to progress on a specific technical point

The online training modules

If you’re not sure which row describes you, you can start with the free 20 minutes.
That’s exactly what they’re for.

What those who've been through it say

These reviews are about our training courses. The 45-minute consultation is a recent format: the first testimonials will be published once there are enough to mean something.

As a subcontractor, it is a pleasure to work with FormAssista. Trainers and learners are perfectly supervised and supported. Every question results in an answer, listening and trust are the pillars of collaboration. The learner is at the heart of the training and everyone contributes to providing their expertise in a balanced manner. It is an excellent training center.

Stéphanie Dumas

I did the business creation training and Laure and Manon were great, they answered all my questions and by the end of the training I had all the cards in hand to get off to a good start. They are professional, they know their job and this training is more than complete. I was hesitant to start but the training is covered by the CPF and I absolutely do not regret having registered, quite the contrary. If you need to do training for your company, I recommend FormAssista without any hesitation.

Marie-Laure Capizzi

This training is essential. It's a gold mine! Before starting a business, we ask ourselves all kinds of questions to which we don't know where to find the answers! I am delighted to have participated in this training. In addition, Laure and Manon are adorable and are there for you. So if like me, you don't have the answers to all your questions: don't waste another moment, register!

Valérie Valérie

Formassista was essential to getting my business off the ground. I appreciated the different training courses offered, which are all very complementary and, I think, necessary to start my project in the best possible conditions. My first meeting with Didier let me correctly pinpoint my training needs. He managed to schedule the different training sessions around my availability, and I'm very grateful to him for that!

Vanessa T.

Note Consultation Specimen

What the note you receive looks like

One page. What you told me, in your words. What I understand from it. The tool we built together. Three dated actions. What to do alone and what’s better done with someone else.

They've been through it

“It took me six months to dare send the first message.”
“My offer used to take three pages. Now it fits in three lines.”
“I was waiting to be ready. I started before I was.”

Book your consultation

45 minutes, video call · €70 · a one-page written note within 48 hours · six slots per week

Questions asked before payment

  1. In one sentence, where are you today? (thinking about it · preparing · registered but nothing moving · launched and stalled)
  2. What’s holding you back, the way you’d say it to a friend?
  3. By when would you like this resolved, and what happens if it isn’t?

Question asked before booking

  1. What’s holding you back, the way you’d say it to a friend?

This profession is mostly referred to in the feminine, and so is this page. Men who practice it are welcomed on the same terms.

Frequently Asked Questions

A paid consultation gets prepared, on both sides. You arrive with your topic, the consultant arrives having already read your answers. Free advice rarely commits the person giving it.

To lay out a subject and leave with a plan, yes. To build a complete offer or a prospecting plan, no — and that will be said during the session rather than after.

That’s actually the most useful time. A lot gets decided before registration, and some of it is expensive to undo.

No. The subject stays your project: your offer, your clients, your rates, your organization. Confidence often comes along with it, without being the starting point.

The €70 is deducted if you book a working session within 30 days. Nothing is decided during the consultation itself.

No, the consultation is paid directly. Our training courses, on the other hand, can be funded through CPF, France Travail, or your OPCO. If you have rights available, that’s the first thing to look into.

Say so at the end of the 45 minutes, and we’ll refund you. And it’ll help us to know why.