Every body tells a story. Try paying attention to a person around you. What do you see? A bent-over posture, or upright? Does the person make eye contact or look at the ground? Relaxed hands, or restless fingers? How does the body move? All signals that the body gives say something about your life experiences, your beliefs, fears, or blockages. Every person carries this with them. Consciously, but also unconsciously.
Your body tells your story. How you experience the world is expressed in signals and expressions from your body. Your body doesn't care if you are aware of it, it is there.
In sessions we explore your unique way of seeing the world. We work with blockages (on an emotional/physical/mental level) and look at your survival patterns and masks. You discover which patterns or mechanisms, which often arose at a young age for a reason, play a role in your daily life. Ultimately with the aim of experiencing more expression and liveliness. Together we will look for your beliefs and question them. Do those critical voices you know so well actually speak the truth?
Methods used in Integrated Psychotherapy are; movement exercises (Bio-Energetics), Breathwork & Bodydrama.
Integrated Psychotherapy
NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model®)
'Connection: Our deepest Desire and Our Greatest Fear'. - Laurence Heller
NARM offers a therapeutic model focused on promoting the ability to increase connection and aliveness. The model focuses on 5 basic biological needs that are essential for our physical and emotional well-being. The need for connection/attunement/trust/autonomy/and love & sexuality.
Connection: We feel we belong in the world. We are in touch with our bodies and emotions and are capable of consistent connection with others.
Attunement: Our ability to know what we need and to recognize, reach for, and absorb the abundance that life offers.
Trust: We have an inherent trust in ourselves and others. We feel safe enough to enable healthy interdependence with others.
Autonomy: We can say no and set boundaries for others. We speak our minds without guilt or fear.
Love-sexuality: Our hearts are open and we are able to integrate a loving relationship with a vital sexuality.
Re-encountering yourself
A child is born as an authentic person. Through environment and upbringing you are formed into a mold that, due to circumstances, more or less matches your natural shape. The journey from your learned form to your natural being is not always easy. An important key is to start listening to your body's voice again. We do this listening by continually tuning in to what is happening in your body, in the here and now. The starting point is that we are curious in a loving way about what lives inside us and focus our attention on our physical observations, feelings, emotions and our thoughts. I offer you a safe place in which you can openly explore what is going on inside you.
“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi
location & costs
location
practice at home, Tuesday to Friday, Amsterdam
prices
a session lasts 60 minutes, session price depends on your income
first session introduction/intake €80
With an income lower than €1200, gross per month €80
With an income between €1,200 gross and €2,800, gross per month is €90
With an income higher than €2800, gross per month €100
Business rate/coaching €110 (excl. 21% VAT)
reimbursements
it is possible to have part of the costs reimbursed as complementary care from the supplementary insurance (this does not apply to coaching/business).
In 2023, treatments by reimbursed care cat therapists will be eligible for partial reimbursement from the supplementary package with: Silver Cross, Avero Achmea, FBTO, Ozf, De Friesland Zorgverzekeraar, CZ, Ohra, CZDirect, Nationale Nederlanden Zorg, Menzis, PMA, Anderzorg, the three healthcare offices in Groningen, Twente and Arnhem, Menzis healthcare offering (MEZ), ONVZ
cancel
Rescheduling or canceling an appointment is free of charge up to 24 hours before the agreed time. after that the full amount will be charged.
logins
procedure
initial interview
A click between you and me is an important element for the success of the therapeutic process. The first session is an intake in which we get to know each other and experience whether there is a connection. We also try to clarify your wishes for yourself. If we both feel 'yes' and there is sufficient confidence in a follow-up, we will schedule a follow-up session.
treatment agreement
If we schedule a follow-up session after the intake, you will be sent a number of documents, including a treatment agreement.
After completing and signing, we start the process. After 5 sessions we evaluate together and adjust the treatment goal if necessary.
report
You can register for a first introductory session/intake via the contact page.
In your registration, briefly mention a few sentences about yourself and try to describe what you would like to get out of sessions for yourself.