Individual therapy for youngsters, students, and adults.
Maybe you are stuck in something, or you notice that an event suddenly brought you completely out of balance. Maybe you feel that your energy is ‘low’ or that there is a lot of ‘heaviness’. Maybe you experience a great restlessness, which you find difficult to grasp. Maybe you just don’t know it anymore and would like to change something, where feelings of pain, powerlessness, sadness, fear, or despair have been taking ‘foreground’ in ‘the back of your mind’ for so long. Maybe it’s just all too much for a while. Maybe you find that you no longer want to carry a burden alone. Maybe you want to explore a part of yourself to its core, or just want to get to know yourself better. Or maybe you were referred by someone.
In psychotherapy, support is provided for:
- feelings of helplessness, conflicts in love, relations, or family.
- experienced turmoil or imbalance.
- being stuck in an old or new sorrow, in fears, in anger, depressive feelings…
- confrontation with burn-out, school fatigue, the anxiety of failure…
- dealing with loss (a partner, family member, your job, illness…)
- a quest in your identity, gender, sexual orientation, self-esteem, inner conflicts, or making important decisions in life
- physical symptoms like stress, tension, or lack of energy
- spiritual questions
- …
If you have further questions or doubts, or if you’re not sure what you ‘need’, feel free to contact me. Then we’ll take a look together, and explore possibilities.
Children and youth
The process of growing up and developing into who you are is not an easy part of the journey through life. Finding your way to ‘adulthood’ is sometimes a daunting task, with sometimes unexpected and insurmountable obstacles. Often a lot is expected of you in the process (at school, at home, from your friends, from our society…). Sometimes too much.
Psychotherapy can be helpful for children and adolescents who don’t feel good about themselves, who experience struggles at school, who sometimes have difficulties in relationships with others (friendships, family, love…), who are searching for their identity (who am ‘I’?), who get stuck in difficult thoughts or who find it difficult to control some emotions.
For me, it is important that children and youngsters find a safe haven to tame the dragons that appear on their path, in confidence and with solid ground under their feet. Some themes are difficult to share with friends or family, and then it might be a good idea to come and see a therapist. It could also be that your parents are asking for additional support. Or it could also be that a session is scheduled on the advice of the school or the family doctor.
The sessions are creatively adjusted to what you need. Together we will look at what you want to share (and what you do not), what you need (and what you do not). We’ll also explore how the therapy can feel comfortable for you. I always put you and your needs central. It could be that you find it important that others participate in one or more sessions, or rather not. It could be that you like to talk a lot, or just not. These are things that we will always decide equally and together. I am the guide, you hold the wheel and determine the pace and course.
Nothing is obliged and everything is possible in safety and freedom.
LGBTQ+
The search for gender and sexual identity can be a tough challenge in our society. Though there is a lot of public acceptance, you can feel very alone or ashamed in finding and being yourself. You might be stuck in not knowing who you are or what you want, or you can be afraid of what others will say or think about you, and how they would react to you being ‘different’. Guidance and acceptance are paramount in the process of becoming your true self. As a psychotherapist, I feel very engaged with people who are struggling in this process and commit myself to being a guide and safe space in going through this journey of self-exploration and self-expression.
Couples
Often, couples take full responsibility for their relationship. Sometimes things run difficult in the dynamic, and a third point can provide the breath to look together at what is stuck from both your points of view. In counseling couples, I am all about reconnecting where contact has been clouded by fear, shame, sadness, anger, disappointment, misunderstanding, jealousy, or other pain.
learning therapy for (psychotherapy) students
In the process of your studies or training, you might bump into a lot of questions about your professional self as a therapist. Therefore I offer therapy, adjusted to (gestalt) therapy students. Learning therapy is a form of supervision, with the aim of developing the capacity for self-reflection of the therapist, to recognize and acknowledge his own reactions to (problems of) patients.
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