FAQs

Risk Awareness | Identity | Narrative | Self-continuity. Please see the homepage for the explanation of this acronym.

Similar to many private mental health practitioners in the Netherlands, I do not have contracts with insurance providers. This means you must cover the cost of the sessions and seek potential reimbursement from your insurance company.

A strong therapeutic alliance is important for a good working relationship between a psychologist and client, and a good working relationship helps produce a positive therapeutic outcome.

In my experience interviewing foreign (non-Dutch) clients who have rendered care from both Dutch insurance-sponsored mental health practitioners and private care expat psychologists in the Netherlands, most clients expressed a strong preference for receiving care from expat psychologists.

Significantly shorter waitlists, improved communication (especially when treatment is in a mutual native language), more productive sessions, more flexible treatment plans, a greater sense of feeling heard and understood, and a greater sense of empathy from the expat psychologist were all reasons stated for this preference.

I work with clients of all backgrounds, but I only practice in English.

We can have a 20-minute phone conversation to help determine if we are a good fit. If we find that communication is too difficult, I will do my best to help find someone else who can help you.

This is up to you. We can meet in the office, via video call, or have a phone-based appointment. We can arrange home-based appointments in exceptional circumstances.

In compliance with the Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport requirements for independent healthcare practitioners, I am registered with an independent review board. (insert link).

Yes, I offer discounts for therapy services for the following groups: displaced and marginalized people (e.g., refugees, human trafficking survivors, etc.), individuals who have recently left a domestically abusive relationship, and individuals who have been waitlisted longer than six months to start therapy with another mental health service.

Please contact me about this.