About me

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 complaints, depressive episodes, 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 nature coaching, 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, through my practice Renessence, 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.