I offer virtual sessions with flexible hours that enable me to work with you wherever you are at a time that works for both of us. I also offer a limited number of in-person sessions at my office in Amsterdam. I generally suggest weekly 60- or 75-minute sessions, with more or less frequent sessions an option depending on your situation and needs.
My role is to create a space conducive to transformation. To listen deeply and without judgment. To help you name and explore your feelings and emotions. To ask questions and offer methodologies and insights that enable you to understand your fears, behavioral patterns, and habits of mind. To help you forge a path toward your goals and dreams.
I aim to work in a warm and sensitive manner, offering hope and sometimes also humor, to make our sessions safe and comfortable, yet challenging enough to be productive.
Having lived in 8 cities on 3 continents over a period of 30 years, I have experienced more than my fair share of change. Here's what helped me approach it with more confidence, optimism, and gratitude:
Getting curious
Instead of seeing unwelcome change as someone I didn't like crashing my party, I've learned to remain open to any unexpected invitation to a different one - one where things are not what I was used to, but where I can potentially find more self-awareness, more healing, more peace, more fun.
Gently and self-compassionately overcoming my fears and healing my wounds
Rather than allowing my fears to deter me from the changes I needed to make - fear of the unknown, fear of a loss of control or safety, fear of being judged or excluded or alone, fear of feeling suppressed pain or anger - I explored the origins of those fears and began to let them go.
Acknowledging and processing the difficulties change entailed for me
Even when approached with a positive attitude, change required saying goodbye to people, places, and things that were important to me. Processing that sometimes devastating loss meant granting myself a period of transition focused on self-care or even grieving.