My story as a life coach/-talking therapist

Since my studies I have been very interested in communication and psychology in addition to general medicine, and I have continuously trained myself in this area. 

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My mission is to guide you in a professional conversation and with appropriate tools and methodologies to your own goal by looking for your inner strength and motivation. We work together, I am an expert on the coaching process while you are an expert on your own life.

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Two major pillars of my approach are:

Motivational Interviewing by William Miller and Stephen Rollnick

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Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg.

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My way of coaching/ talk therapie is based on:

Solution focused brief therapy by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg.

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Mindfulness has been a part of my life for many years and inspires my work every day.

I also have experience with burnout and affinity with high sensitivity (HSP) and introversion .

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I get further inspiration from:

Irvin Yalom, Alfie Kohn, Friedemann Schulz von Thun, Harriet Lerner, Howard Halpern, Chip & Dan Heath, Pat Patfoort, Elke Van Hoof, Ilse Sand, Byron Katie, Paul Watzlawick, Brené Brown, Carol Dweck, Morty Lefkoe, Susan Cain Brian Little, Luk Dewulf.

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As a general practitioner I have always considered lifestyle medicine as being very important, because lifestyle is one of the important factors that determines our health and also how we live life.

Helping to promote a healthy lifestyle is therefore also an important part of my current work.

For this I work with the spiderweb approach of the Institute of Positive Health (iPH) and with the lifestyle wheel of the association arts en leefstijl.