I am currently based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

All 1-1 sessions can be done both online and in-person.

For in-person meetings, we agree on a location based on what feels most appropriate or supportive for your needs. It can be outdoors, in nature or in the city. It can be in your own space, as well as in mine. For meetings outside of Utrecht, I would request an additional fee to cover travel expenses.

“Therapy”, “therapist”, “counselling” and “counsellor” are not licensed professions in the Netherlands - any use of such terms on this website do not imply that our practice here (nature-based holistic wellness) falls within the scope of licensed mental health professionals.

Most frequently, when I receive this question, it comes from a culturally-specific understanding of "therapy" as shorthand for "licensed clinical mental health therapy". I am NOT a licensed provider of mental health services in any part of the world. I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions, and do not ground my work here in the western mental health paradigm. My role is to walk alongside you as a co-traveller, sharing practices and inviting perspectives from a wide range of cultures and frameworks, which you may experience as supportive, healing or therapeutic.

In my lineage of Forest Therapy we say that “The Forest is the Therapist, the Guide opens the doors”. I am here to support you in finding, opening and walking through the door to your own therapeutic relationships with the more-than-human world.

In general, I don’t turn anyone away on the basis of lack of funds alone. At the same time, I have to balance my deep desire to be available to those who might be in most need, with my body’s need to stay materially resourced and continue walking this path in an energetically sustainable way.

I make a small number of hourly slots available for free or by-donation sessions each month — feel free to check back another time if you don’t see any availability now.

Otherwise, reduced rates or the possibility of trading offerings can be explored on a case-by-case basis.

Sure, if you’d like to purchase 6 sessions up-front, I’m happy to offer you one “for free” (6 for the price of 5). This can be discussed in an intro call :)

Belonging and alienation are universal themes of human experience that affect everyone regardless of the specific nuances of our background. The nuance of my background as a queer migrant of colour is that keeping up an appearance (or illusion) of “conforming” or “fitting in” to any dominant culture’s standards has never been possible — neither in childhood nor adulthood. As a result, I have almost never tried to pursue this — instead, from the earliest age possible, I started to seek out mentors and examples of creative & non-normative ways of living and being.

In my own journey, I have learned a lot from people for whom their reason for “not being able to fit in” is less glaringly obvious to others at first sight — specifically because it creates a context which is so different from my own, and yet arrives at the same consequence of feeling alienated.

If you relate to the themes and practices I work with but not my background, I am happy to accompany you on your journey, curious about what we can learn from each other & the shared humanity we will discover.