Specialties

As a Behavioral Therapist / Basic Psychologist, I treat the following mild and moderately serious psychological complaints and problems in the first line.

For more specialized and long-term assistance, I refer you to a BIG-registered colleague.

- Learning and Behavioral problems in children and young people

- Health education

- Psychoeducation

- Parenting problems

- Relationship problems

- Social Media addiction

- (Exam) Performance anxiety

- Lack of Self-esteem

- Aggression regulation

- Burn-out

- Relaxation and Mindfulness

I work with Short-Term Psychological Interventions. This is a professional, structured therapeutic approach, which limits the number of sessions (and therefore also the costs). I use elements from Positive Cognitive Behavioral Psychology and Solution Focused Therapy.

I don't use tests as a "diagnosis", but I do use some questionnaires to identify where complaints are and where you can use your strengths. There we will find the starting points to draw up a treatment plan together.

Therapies

some examples

Positive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and ACT

Positive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Also called the fourth generation CGT (Bannink & Geschwind). Not so much the complaints determine the treatment, but more the way you deal with it. It is important that you have insight into the things that are going well. Because goals are mainly formulated, this therapy is highly forward-looking.

Research indicates that this is now the most promising therapy.

ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) focuses on the consequences of feelings and thoughts that we hold on to, or that we are constantly guided by. ACT therefore focuses not so much on what people think exactly and on changing or avoiding it, but on learning to deal with those feelings and thoughts by taking more distance from them. Shit Happens.

Or as I like to say: "Face it or fuck it". Take on the things you can change or give them a place somewhere in your life.

Coaching

Coaching is intended to develop yourself, for example during an outplacement or 'just' because you want to get more out of yourself.

Coaching is usually also used in a burnout process.

There are usually 4 phases:

- What is the problem, what are you experiencing?

- You get reflection from your coach.

- You draw up an action plan.

- You put your plans into practice and receive reflection from your coach.

Burnout

Burnout seems indispensable: in 2021, according to the Dutch statistics (CBS), there were 1.3 million people in the Netherlands with work-related stress or a burnout!

Especially in the time of Covid, all perspective seemed gone.

We work (too) hard, take (too) little relaxation, and must perform increasingly, without experiencing appreciation for it. Feeling of low self-esteem is the result. Many pupils and students also experience this.

Your view of reality may be distorted. You feel emotionally unstable, which can manifest itself in sadness, irritability or even aggression. You feel tired and hunted at the same time. You become forgetful and make mistakes.

Burnout can also be seen as a cry for help from your body: you have to change your lifestyle!

ACT and mindfulness are helpful in empowering you.

See also my 'Burnout website': www.PsychologistBurnout.nl

Mindfulness

Mindfulness: you can use it as a goal to come to yourself.

No unrest in your head: Mind@Ease!

Mindfulness is also used as a means to treat e.g. stress, burnout, depression.

You learn not to judge (usually negative) past experiences as established facts. If you learn to focus on the "here and now," you can distance yourself from these feelings.

This allows you to use your energy more positively.