This does not have to be decided in advance. At the beginning of a session, I’ll ask you what you want to focus on, and from here we can co-create the right type of session container. It can be different each time. The most important thing, is that we take the time to explicitly agree on what we are doing with our time together (and why we are doing it).

Choose below the standard rate if you are on a low or fixed income, or are experiencing financial hardship, particularly when due to the impact of maginalised social location.

Choose above the standard rate if you have an above average income, access to savings or investments or generational wealth, and can comfortably afford most things you need in daily life. — this helps support me to continue being able to offer the lower rates.

Choose the standard rate if you feel your situation lies somewhere in-between, or don’t know how to choose, or this feels too complicated to think about.

We agree on an amount that works for you, either in or after our intro call. This can be changed later on by agreement, but not for sessions you have already paid for.

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 regulated or protected terms in the Netherlands - any use of such terms on this website do not imply that our practice here falls within the scope of regulated mental health service providers.

I am currently studying Counselling Psychology at the Masters level, and I may offer to use psychotherapeutic techniques or principles I have received formal training in, where I feel it may be useful. However:

I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions, and do not ground my work here in the western paradigm of mental health and disorder. All of my methods are educational and supportive — not diagnostic or prescriptive.

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.

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.

Yes, they really are, and I’m surprised to get this question so frequently :)

The reason is that: an integral part of working with me is to work in slow spaciousness and nuanced complexity. This is difficult to demonstrate when meeting someone for the first time, where there is only 30 minutes (or goddesses forbid, 15 minutes).

I don’t want to feel rushed. You will get a much better feel for how I am to work with when I am not feeling rushed. We don’t need to use the whole hour if things naturally come to completion before the hour.