Balancing work and family life

Stress at work - Stress management, burnout, conflicts with colleagues, demotivation, static work environment, inability to progress professionally, job relocation.

Personal development - Self-discovery, communicating with different personality types, effective leadership and optimal performance, negotiation, motivation, planning.

Relationships

Myself - Tension, low self-confidence, loneliness, mid-life crisis.

Partnership - Arguments, jealousy, cheating, sexual problems, crises, separation, divorce, remarriage.

Family - Me as a parent/grandparent, different ideas of family, complicated relationships with (bonus) children, ageing parents, partner's parents.

Mind & Body

Health - Coping with ageing, health limitations, sleep disorders.

Soul - Spiritual crisis, faith issues, loss of zest for life.

Unexpected events - Serious illness, death of a loved one.

Living Environment - If you could change one thing about your environment, what would it be?

• I am a psychologist, EMDR therapist and certified coach (member of ICF Professional Coaches). I have over 20 years of experience in psychology and therapy and have had my own practice in Brussels for 14 years. 
  
• In addition to a five-year degree in psychology, I have completed a long-term training in psychotherapy. I continue to train in order to incorporate the latest approaches into my work. I have successfully completed five years of training in integrative therapy, four years in family therapy and training in couple therapy using the Gottman method.
• I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), a comprehensive psychotherapeutic method that helps clients recover from problems caused by traumatic events in their lives. This therapy offers a modern, empirically-based, integrative treatment model that incorporates the latest developments in neuroscience.
• As an international facilitator of the EmotionAid® method, I use a five-step self-regulation training method with clients to minimise the long-term negative effects of emotional trauma and promote faster healing.
• I also have several years' experience in international consulting, where I have been involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of Assessment & Development Centres and the development of competency models.
• I am a certified coach with ICF accredited training and enjoy exploring new perspectives with my clients, encouraging their growth and change and helping them to achieve their goals. In my coaching I also like to work with the 4 element typology of water, air, earth and fire. This typology serves as an interesting metaphor for our character traits and typical behaviour patterns.