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ABOUT  THERAPY and APPROACH

online therapy

In therapy you have the freedom to explore, learn, grow and heal yourself, through better understanding about your thoughts, emotions and behavior. 

 

I provide Face-to-Face therapy at my practice in The Hague, conveniently located at Sweelinckplein.

Also I offer Online Therapy, that is scientifically effective and it is, in my opinion, the most modern form of treatment.
You can be free to choose the location for your session, as long as it is a space where you feel comfortable and secure. It is essential to find an environment that ensure privacy and fosters a sense of safety, allowing you to fully engage in the therapeutic process.
 

I call this freedom. And I love offering this freedom to you. 












I work with Integrative, Psychosomatic and Trauma orientated Approach.

My background in Ayurveda Medicine and Western Medicine, the two opposing foundations of treating physical and mental illnesses, help me to understand human body in better way.  

Psychosomatic Approach

helps me to understand Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms (MUPS)  in different level.

MUPS - have been defined as symptoms of which the origins remain unclear after adequate history taking, physical examination and careful consideration of the psychosocial context by a physician. 

Nowadays 70% of medical consultations are classified as MUPS. 

General practitioners (GPs) often experience patients with MUPS as difficult to manage. While many GPs consider MUPS to be an expression of psychological distress, patients do not always see the connection between their symptoms and distress. GPs also experience problems in providing plausible explanations for the origin of the symptoms to their patients. The mismatch between perceptions of GPs and patients as described above explains why patients with MUPS are often dissatisfied with the medical care that they receive. Limited consultation time, lack of skills of the GP and patients’ resistance towards psychosocial attributions contribute to these difficulties.

Patients are often dissatisfied with the medical care they receive. They report that they experience a lack of empathy and support, feel stigmatised and not taken seriously, and are worried because neither they nor their physicians understand where the symptoms come from. 

 

The process explores the mental, emotional, physical and biological aspects of  your own health and provides detailed assessments with practical exercises so you can understand and participate in your own healing process.

Psychosomatics empowers you with a deeper understanding of your innate tendencies and the subtle but powerful changes required to achieve greater satisfaction in all aspects of life, including relationships, occupation and health.


 

 

 

Integrative Psychotherapy

involves the process of making whole: taking disowned, unaware, unresolved or fragmented aspects of the self and integrating them within a cohesive entity. Through integration, it becomes possible for you to engage the world with full contact and to have the courage to face each moment openly and freshly, without the protection of a preformed opinion, position, attitude, or expectation. An objective of Integrative Psychotherapy includes having each person assume personal awareness and responsibility so that their behavior is by choice in the current situation and not stimulated by compulsion, fear, or conditioning. This is accomplished in part through the use of the therapist-client relationship — the ability to create full interpersonal contact in the present as a stepping stone to healthier relationships with other people and a satisfying sense of self.

The original and primary meaning of “integrative psychotherapy” was composed by Dr. Richard G. Erskine in 1972 while he was a professor at the University of Illinois. Integrative Psychotherapy is about the process of integrating the personality. It involves the psychotherapist facilitating clients‘ development of a comprehensive and congruent narrative of their sense of self; replacing archaic means of self-protection with mature forms of self-stabilization and self-regulation; and, becoming aware of unconscious relational patterns so that the person can learn and grow from each experience in life.

Is composed of a collection of developmentally-based and relationally-focused concepts about the practice of psychotherapy. The theories and methods of Integrative Psychotherapy serve as a blueprint for the psychotherapist to facilitate clients’ internal integration of physiological sensations, feelings, thoughts, and actions. In short, integration means becoming whole, with full access to all that one is and may become. The term integrative refers to the full synthesis of affective, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological theory and methods of psychotherapy as well as the outcome of psychotherapy – the integration or assimilation within you of the fragmented or fixated aspects of the personality.

The word “Integrative” of Integrative Psychotherapy also refers to the integration of theory, the bringing together of affective, cognitive, behavioral and physiological dimensions of human functioning, within a relational system. The concepts are utilized within a perspective of human development in which each phase of life presents heightened developmental tasks, need sensitivities, crises, and opportunities for new learning. The quality of the therapist to client relationship is viewed as the central factor in the success of psychotherapy.

Integrative psychotherapy takes into account many views of human functioning: psychodynamic, client-centered, behaviorist, family therapy, Gestalt therapy, neo-Reichian, object relations theories, psychoanalytic self- psychology, and transactional analysis. Each provides a valid explanation of behavior, and each is enhanced when selectively integrated with the others.

 

The psychotherapeutic interventions are based on research-validated knowledge of normal developmental process and the theories describing the self-protective defensive processes used when there are interruptions in normal development.

Eight philosophical principles form the foundation of the theory and methods articulated in a relationship-focused and developmentally-based Integrative Psychotherapy. These principles reflect the value system and attitudes toward the practice of psychotherapy.

  • All people are equally valuable: It is a therapeutic responsibility to find ways to value every client even if their behavior or what motivates them is not understood. This involves respecting their vulnerability, as well as their attempts at being invulnerable, while maintaining a therapeutic relationship that fosters a sense of security.

  • All human experience is organized physiologically, affectively and/or cognitively: Our biological imperatives require that we make meaning of our phenomenological experiences and that we share those meanings with others in relationship.

  • All human behavior has meaning in some context: All problematic behaviors serve some psychological function such as reparation, prediction, identity, continuity, stability, or enhancement. Before focusing on behavioral change in therapy it is essential to know and appreciate the client’s phenomenological experiences and to inquire about the various psychological functions that their behaviors serve.

  • Internal and external contact is essential for human functioning: In Integrative Psychotherapy, one of the definitions of psychological health is the ability of an individual to be aware of both internal and external processes.

  • All people are relationship-seeking and interdependent throughout life: Interpersonal relationships are essential throughout the entire life cycle; they are the manifestation of a biological imperative that provides a basic motivation for human behaviour.

  • Humans have an innate thrust to grow. There is a natural force within people to grow, heal, and explore; to express the human capacity to be all that one can be.

  • Humans suffer from relational disruptions: A developmentally-based, relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy emphasizes a non-pathological perspective in understanding people’s behavior.

  • The intersubjective process of psychotherapy is more important than the content of the psychotherapy: Intersubjectivity refers to the synthesis of two people sharing an experience together; each is influenced by the other. The therapy process is co-created. Therefore, no two psychotherapists will ever do the same psychotherapy — each psychotherapist is idiosyncratic in how they interact with their clients. The therapist’s attitudes and demeanor, the quality of interpersonal relationship and involvement, are just as important, sometimes even more so, than any specific theory or method.

Several research studies have shown that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is the essential factor in behavior change and psychological growth. For a psychotherapeutic relationship to be effective the psychotherapist must be committed to the positive life change of their clients and must be guided by respect for their integrity. Through respect, kindness, and contact, the constant presence allows an interpersonal relationship that affirms clients’ integrity to emerge. Such a therapeutic relationship:

  • enhances each client’s understanding of his or her history and inner experience;

  • furnishes each client with a sense that his or her behavior has an important psychological function;

  • fosters the capacity for full internal and external contact;

  • provides the opportunity for each client to experience being seen as a unique and valuable human being;

  • explores creative options and outlets; and,

  • nourishes the possibility of pleasure in relationships.

and Trauma related approach

is not a specific or technique-heavy modality, rather it is a set of guiding principles that recognizes that trauma has significant effects on people and is often under-recognized and under-reported. It is about to create safety, collaboration, and empowerment. 

Honoring your voice and your choice on what you want and need from the therapy. Compassion and respect are the foundation of trauma related approach. 

Traumatic experiences often happen in the context of relationships. When a trusted person hurts us, the damage to our sense of ourselves and of the world often changes in some very negative ways. Betrayal from someone we trusted can destroy our sense of trust in others. Trauma-informed approach recognize and understand this and work hard to make sure that their clients are not retraumatized by providing a safe place for you to express those feelings without worrying about judgment or repulsion.

Helping you to feel grounded, safe and connected with the present, with your body and with the world around you.

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