Healing Love Counseling
I am a counseling psychologist, specialized in sex therapy and couples counseling. I help my clients emotionally reconnect, overcome sexual shame, navigate conflict, and have a greater sense of empowerment and connections in their lives and relationships.
I have extensive personal and professional experience with the ethical non-monogamy and LGTBQ+ communities. I am informed by psychodynamic and attachment theory, and use a holistic, strength-based model.
Mission
Create a safe and nurturing space to support you in growing into the most empowered and fulfilled version of yourself.
Provide psychological counseling to individuals and couples in the Netherlands and abroad, both in-person and online
Help clients overcome challenges related to intimacy, communication issues, sexual mismatches, and emotional connection.
Offer a safe and confidential environment where you can unpack internalized shame around sexuality, recover from infidelity, explore low desire or libido mismatch, and cultivate emotional intimacy.
Utilize evidence-based approaches such as body-focused, mindfulness techniques. Gottman Institute informed interventions to address your unique needs.
You’re in the right place
You would like to improve your communication and satisfaction in relationships, romantic or otherwise.
You want to understand and work through issues or goals around sex, desire, and intimacy.
You want mindfulness techniques and skills that can help you stay in the present and sit with the feelings and sensations attached to strong emotions.
You are ready to do the work it takes to accomplish your goals.
What do you need help with?
Emotional Reconnection
When you're feeling emotionally disconnected from your partner, I can offer tools to rebuild emotional attunement, foster communication and connection, and give tools to navigate relationship conflict
Overcoming Sexual Shame
Maybe you feel embarrassed or ashamed of your desires or sexuality. We can move through that and move to a place of self-love and acceptance
Finding Sexual Compatibility
Differences in what arouses you or mismatch in sexual frequency. I will help you find the common ground and learn to speak each other's sexual languages
Recovering from Betrayal
Rebuilding trust and moving to a place of love and understanding after broken relationship agreements
Conscious Uncoupling
Breakups can be incredibly painful and sometimes take years of recovery. I can help you transitioning from one kind of relationship to another in a way that will honor the growth that you’ve experienced together and make the next steps smoother and more collaborative
Navigating Ethical Non-monogamy
When there is a mismatch in desires around relationship design, polyamory, open relationship, swinging, etc. I am personally and professionally experienced with ethical non-monogamy and can help navigate this discussion. I am also happy to work with poly couples, polycules, V-hinges, etc. who are wanting to discuss other topics.
