Authentic - playful - curious - life-long learner- out-of-the-box thinker

For many years, I lived abroad as an expat and English teacher. Each year I worked in a different country, moving from one job to the next. After returning to the Netherlands and spending several years in higher education, my body began to send increasingly clear signals. I experienced physical issues, depression, and eventually a burnout. This became my wake-up call: my constant movement had been a way of avoiding old pain. What I had long been running from eventually caught up with me and brought everything to a halt.

Around that time, my search for genuine connection and a sense of coming home began. I followed trainings in working with plant medicines and in Eco Therapy, allowing nature to become an active co-therapist in both my life and my work. I then deepened my path through Compassionate Inquiry, the trauma-informed and body-oriented approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté. This led me to my true passion: the understanding that the mind is multiple, and that healing emerges when all our inner parts are met with recognition and care. In 2024, I began my training in Internal Family Systems Therapy, developed by Richard Schwartz.

During this period, I lived in a tiny house in the forest. Living close to nature brought me back to my roots and taught me how to slow down and stay. The birth of my daughter in 2023 deepened this process in a profound way. Single motherhood invited me to no longer be able to leave, but instead to remain present and to face old patterns, trauma parts, and shadow aspects. This was far from easy, yet deeply transformative.

Today, I support you in listening to your body and your inner parts with curiosity and compassion, so that you can live an authentic and meaningful life in alignment with your true nature.

• Associate's degree in Social Work - Fontys Eindhoven (2009)

• Bachelor’s Degree in English and Spanish Language and Literature – University of Antwerp (2013)

• Master’s Degree in Multilingual Communication – University of Antwerp (2014)

• Cambridge CELTA Teaching Qualification – Brussels (2015)

• Soul Coach Training – De Gewijde Reis -Zaandam (2019)

• Eco Therapy – Shizendo-Leuven (2021)

• Compassionate Inquiry (CI) – Online year-long Intensive Program- Owen Sound, Canada (2022)

• Compassionate Inquiry (CI) – 1 year Internship &  6 month Mentorship Program (2023)

• Compassionate inquiry 4 day trauma conference Budapest, Hungary (2022)

• Compassionate Inquiry 3 day trauma conference Bucharest, Romania (2024)

• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) year-long program – Jeanne Estourgie-Vught (2025)

• Online training Unattached Burdens and Guides by Robert Falconcer, Life Architect, 2025

• PA for the IFS training in Vught (2025 and 2026, 2 days a month)