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…
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…
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…
When standing on your own feels overwhelming, When not knowing activates traumatic distress,When feelings and thoughts are dominated by insecurity,The wounded inner child shows up asking to be healed,But…
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…
It strikes me that the people who come into my practice often resist the diagnosis they have been given. They all agree; a diagnosis makes them sick. When…