Counselling

Working with me

Through individual counselling and workshops I offer guidance and support to help you deal with challenges in your personal and professional life. Anything that stands in the way of freely chosen and fully satisfying life is worth a conversation.

I offer virtual sessions, as well as in-person sessions in Gustavsberg, Stockholm, the Hague and Amsterdam. For the Netherlands session I am available for in-person sessions once a month. I work in English, Swedish and Dutch.

People sometimes ask if their concern is important enough for therapy. Aside from trauma disorders, anxiety, loneliness, relationship concerns, and life transitions you are welcome for anything that stops you from living life to the full!

On the home page you can read more about my specific areas of expertise such as international and expat issues, pregnancy loss and fertility, as well as existential issues related to life’s meaning and purpose.

Rates

I charge €100 for a full one hour session.

If you purchase a package of ten sessions you get one session for free, i.e €900

Reduced rates are possible in specific circumstances and only for a limited time. Please contact me diretly.

Approach

Making whole what’s been broken

My core training is in Psycho-synthesis, which means ‘reintegrating the psyche’. Simply said, it means reuniting all the different aspects of your identity so they work for you rather than against you.

Experience has taught me that most of our dilemma’s have their roots in patterns and assumptions we developed in childhood. At the time, these adaptations were needed to help you feel cared for and protected, but by the time we are adults these behaviours might be working against us, stopping us from effectively dealing with current challenges.

We link the there and then with the here and now, and use the insights to move forward into the future with a greater resilience and a freedom of choice.

I firmly believe you have the wisdom to find yourself, and it is my job to connect you to the inner compass that will take you there.

Qualifications

To qualify for the privilege of accompanying people on their innermost journeys, empathy and great listening skills are not enough. Professional therapists undergo years of personal therapy, both to ensure they don’t contaminate the therapeutic space with their own unresolved feelings, and to experience the humility of knowing that they too can be, and have been, just as vulnerable as the person sitting opposite them.

I have been fortunate to train in this experiential tradition, supported by wise guides who have accompanied me on my own journey and helped me become more integrated and whole. And through ongoing, voluntary supervision, where client material is always anonymised, their wisdom, insight and experience continue to benefit my clients too.

TRAINING

  • 2006-2009: Masters - Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy - University of East London  (UKCP accred)

  • 2000-2004: Dip. Counselling (soul therapy) - Psykosyntes Akademien  (RACS accred)

  • 1994-1997:  Dip. Counselling Integrative - CSCT Counselling Harefield Hospital  (BACP accred)

  • 1983-1986:  BA Journalism (radio & TV) - CAJ Kampen later HICO Zwolle (HBO)

  • Various courses in working with survivors of sexual abuse, working with groups, astro-psychology and grief counselling.

ACCREDITATION

  • United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy – Nr: 08159899 - from 2009-2014

  • NFG registration – Netherlands - NFG licence: 9262, VPMW – from 2016-2023

  • Psychosynthesis Association Sweden – L. Sizoo – from 2024 -ongoing