For our 10-day retreats there is a lot of interest from professionals working in the mental healthcare sector. We have seen psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists and many other mental…
Psychiatric patients want more room for spirituality in their treatment. This article appeared in the newspaper Trouw on July 16. Sometimes I work with people in my practice…
Adverse childhood experiences lead to trauma and toxic stress. Toxic stress prevents optimal brain development and adversely affects the endocrine and immune systems, leading to a greater likelihood…
The times I’ve joined a 60-day retreat in Myanmar have been insightful, healing and enlightening. It has brought me a lot of benefits that I still reap on…
Today I finally joined another day of training by CELEVT where I following the course in treatment of early childhood trauma. This time the subject completely dedicated to…
During the last years I have started to work more as a therapist with people who suffer from the effects of structural dissociation. Structural dissociation develops because a…
When the inner child identity experience rejection, anger may appear. When the inner child identity experience abandonment, desper may arise.When the inner child identity feels unwanted, the exitential fear…
Our inner child is beautiful. It let us play in a truly innocent way. No drama, no manipulation and when nurtured by our mature mind it can be…
Today, I’ve followed the first day of the post-HBO ECT at CELEVT. ECT stands for Early Childhood Chronic Traumatization (chronic traumas contracted before the sixth year of life).…
A lot of assumptions are made in the land of trauma therapy. One of the assumptions, under pressure from the insurance companies, is that healing from trauma can…
I’ve found out that when trauma has occurred in early childhood (0-7yrs), the dissociative symptoms can be elusive and can challenge me as a psychotrauma therapist, and as…