Sessions for adults
Sessions 1:1 & 1:2
“I am impressed by how quickly Maartje managed to touch my core and got me moving.”
— Karin, Health Care (GZ-) Psychologist
What do you experience?
I love guiding you from my holistic view tailored to your personal needs.
In a Session, you'll receive lots of healing insights and practical tools that will help you to directly experience a deeper connection with yourself; who you truly and fully are. Your unique interplay of mind, emotions, body, heart, and consciousness (deeper self/ soul). So that you can live from the inside out, as an expression of who you truly are. Into your strengths, authenticity, and potential. Connected with yourself, others, and your environment. And: how you can do that yourself.
Being fully yourself and living with joy and satisfaction as it suits you best!
It’s my passion for about 12 years now to guide people of all ages with a various life questions and problems; in your daily life, work, and/ or relationships. Each Session is like every person unique. Let yourself be inspired below by a selection of the many examples from previous sessions (arranged by theme) and the wonderful reviews.
Reviews Sessions 1:1
“Maartje knows how to get to the core of a problem through her clear view of the entire spectrum of being human, thoughts, emotions, body, heart and soul. The session was enlightening, empowering and deepening. Very great to be strengthened again in what I can focus on. It's great how such a session still has an after-effect.”
— Aline Barbou, Teacher dance & awareness, Open Floor
“I came to see Maartje after a very hectic period in my life. I noticed that I couldn’t find my peace both physically and mentally. So it was time for action!
Maartje's holistic approach is what attracted me. She then helped me on my way again. I have found my peace again and I am therefore better able to make decisions.”
— Janine, Psychologist
Sessions 1:1 (& 1:2) for everyone
12 years of experience with amongst others:
Self-realization and trust
Experience your strengths, self-love & authenticity.
Healing stress/ burnout/ depression
Translating & softening difficult (suicidal) thoughts
Softening grief/loss (death of a loved one, divorce, relationship, work, friendship, moving)
Overstimulation & self-care with: hyper-/ high sensitivity (HSP), giftedness, autism/Asperger's, ADHD
Trauma/inner child healing
Guidance during difficult transitions
Choosing direction in your life, work, and studies
Experiencing self-love and trust/ perfectionism, fear of failure
Symbolism of images/ dreams/ nightmares
Unity experience(s), non-duality and duality
Spirituality and meaning/ living your soul mission.
Mindfulness & compassion
Daily conscious living with (self-) compassion.
Discovering and/or enriching your Mindfulness and/or compassion skills for beginners & advanced practitioners, combined with personalized holistic guidance.
Living more consciously with attention in the here & now
Acceptance/ letting go/ letting be.
Guided meditations tailored to your needs (e.g., 3-Step Breathing Space/ Coping, Breathing Meditation, Body Scan, Breath and Body Meditation, Sitting Meditation, Walking Meditation, Heart and Compassion Meditation, Eating Meditation, and/or personal meditations and visualizations tailored to your own themes and intentions).
Your personalized practice plan.
Direct application in your own daily life.
Nutrition
Holistic view on health & nutrition.
Tuning into (your relationship with) food
Meaning of your food choices and eating habits
Enjoying food AND getting into your natural weight
Eating healthier/ allowing yourself to snack
Intuitive eating/ more structured eating
Dealing with an adjusted diet regarding disease/ allergy
Eating/ drinking/ alcohol consumption more consciously
Living, eating, and moving from the inside out
Healing eating problems & eating disorders (all possible forms) such as: emotional eating, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa, Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), eating problems with autism, and all others.
Being fully yourself!
Living as you naturally and truly are with joy.
Become aware of and breaking automatic thought and behavioral patterns and/ or reactions.
Thinking and feeling in alignment with who you truly are.
Surrendering and softening.
Connecting with your intentions, heart, and soul's desires.
Compassion: feeling with, not suffering with.
Connecting with nature and the seasons.
Everything is energy. Understanding and collaborating with the energetic nature of reality.
Knowing and not knowing, openness and curiosity.
Taking (inner) leadership of your life.
Self-expression and creation. Living from the inside out as an expression of who you truly and fully are.
Body & Movement
Experience balance and rest in body & mind.
Embodied and wholehearted inquiry
Translating & softening psychosomatic problems
Feeling, healing and translating difficult emotions
Tools with stress, anxiety and tension problems, sleeping and concentration problems
Coping with cancer/ disease/ pain problems
Body awareness and embodiment
Grounding/ feeling at home and safe in your body
Connecting with your menstrual cycle
Transformation during menopause
Healing a distorted body image (BDD)/ self-harm
Energy and stimulus regulation
Mindful movement, Yin yoga, dance/ personal exercise plan.
Connection 1:1 & 1:2
Heart to heart with your partner/parent/child/colleague.
Compassionate communication or conflict resolution
Conscious relationship/ parenting
Experiencing more intimacy with yourself, your partner
Energetic relationships/ soul connections
Experiencing autonomy (in your relationship/ others)
Childwish/ Guidance for mental, emotional, and/or relational blockages when getting pregnant is difficult
Pregnancy/ connecting with the life in your womb
Mirroring: what is yours/ what is someone else’s?
Giving/ receiving support (disease/ caregiving)
Speaking your truth/ attentive listening
Feeling & expressing your boundaries.
Conscious intercollegiate contact/ mediation.
And so much more... Every session is like every person unique. You are very welcome with what's going on for you (both)!
You can directly make an appointment for your Session.
Review Session 1:1
“Just talking with you already is healing.”
— Carli Verkoelen
Reviews Sessions 1:1
“I am very grateful for what the sessions have offered me, it gives me a lifelong insight and direction. Without Maartje's gifts this would not have been possible.”
— Lilian, Medical doctor
“Maartje sees me and hears me and above all feels who I am. She feels flawlessly, gives practical and down to earth insights and selectively applies what you need in terms of ways of working. Maartje, I thank you very much and I hope that many will find their way to you!”
— Evelien, Mindfulness trainer
How do I work?
Ways of working & rate:
You will directly experience a lot of healing insights and practical tools to connect with yourself and who you really are in just a 1:1 Session: €180,- including 21% VAT. (*) It immediately does you good! Sessions are powerful so that long weekly treatment trajectories aren’t necessary. Many people have been helped very well with about 3 Sessions. Others like more or less sessions. Also the time in between Sessions will be tailored to meet your personal needs (on average 2 - 6 weeks). After a while some people like to book just a Session every now and then to continue deepening & enriching their healing journey. Each Session and process is like every person unique. Sessions take about 60 minutes. (More time if desired; 75 mins. 90 mins. or 120 mins. will be charged. If you would like more time or the option to extend your Session, please indicate this when booking your appointment to facilitate planning.)
After each session you will go home with a visual overview of all insights and tools. In case of a guided meditation you’ll receive your own audio recording.
Connection Sessions 1:1 or 1:2 are for yourself or together with your partner/ parent/ child/ colleague/ (girl-) fiend about the relationship with eachother. Rate Session 1:2 with partner/ parent/ child/ (girl-) friend: €225,- including 21% VAT. Rate Session 1:2 with colleague, mediation: €235,- including 21% VAT. (*) Sessions take about 60 minutes. (More time if desired; 75 mins. 90 mins. or 120 mins. will be charged).
Read more about Sessions for/ with Children & Adolescents.
I work without the need for lengthy waiting lists, intakes, diagnosis and treatment trajectories. You can directly book your Session.
(*) Information about reimbursement and more can be found at the bottom of the page.
What ways of working can you expect?
A session focuses on insightful conversation and real connection. This is a beautiful collaboration with and beyond words, allowing the connection with yourself to become tangible/ clear. For those whom it fits, I work with simple drawings, images, and symbolism that may emerge for you to clarify certain pointers to connect with yourself, others, and your environment.
In addition to insightful and healing conversation, other certified and tailor-made experienced professional treatment methods can be used from my holistic vision if desired, such as: Mindfulness and compassion meditation, positive psychology, bodywork (embodied and wholehearted inquiry, mindful moving, Yin yoga or dance improvisation), holistic view on nutrition and health, working with images (visualizations/ drawing). Both the nature of the Session and the way of working will be tailored to your needs in the moment.
“Maartje knows how to get to the core quickly with beautiful questions/ explorations, angles and advice.”
— Health Care (GZ-) Psychologist
“Maartje immediately connects at a deep level, beyond thought, which touches the core and naturally creates a deep connection with myself.
— Helga, Trainer
Reviews Sessions 1:1
“Maartje flawlessly feels what you need. Without words she understands what you are going through and with her knowledge and experience she guides you, when necessary, to other insights. She really listens, you can talk about anything, without prejudice."
— Kiki
“In my session with Maartje she breathed with me through all the difficult parts and she gave me just the right, practical advice for me so I could move forward. Words that still reverberate and that we have integrated into our family life. It is a blessing that Maartje can intuitively feel with others and can immediately distill from this which tools you can practically use to get out of your blockages or fears. I am very grateful to her.”
— Sarah Domogala, Author, filmmaker & healer
In-person & online:
My practice is conveniently located in the heart of Sittard - Geleen, nearby Zuyderland hospital and the A2. Sessions are also often Online via Zoom. It’s both just as good; it’s often a personal and/or practical preference as to what works for you.
Here your can book your Session and indicate your preference.
“Despite the fact that the sessions were online, I always had the feeling that I could fully connect with Maartje.”
— Sanne, Psychologist
Collaborations & memberships:
Reviews Sessions 1:1
“It's great when Maartje is standing next to you and guiding you! So much wisdom, so many insights, .... Then I really feel everything shifting in my body. As if things get a new place and 'fit' better. That gives peace and confidence.”
— Els, Teacher
“The sessions with Maartje were enlightening, confronting, but above all a journey to my inner core. For the first time I felt completely seen and acknowledged in what I was experiencing. Finally, I felt like someone really understood me and listened to me without judgment. The contact felt pure and attuned to me, without any ‘noise’.
She let me experience that the connection with myself has always been there, even if I didn't feel it that way at times. I have learned to trust my strength and inner wisdom and to stand up for it. That I am good the way I am with everything there is and that I am allowed to Be, but what I am perhaps most grateful for to her is that I am once again approaching life with an enthusiastic, open and curious view. Looking forward to all the beauty (and lessons) it offers me.”
— Charlotte Kemner
For whom?
Sessions are for everyone and all ages. In about 12 years of practice experience, I have guided both private individuals and health professionals from 6 to 82 years old with various life events, questions and mental, emotional, physical, energetic, psychosomatic and/or relational problems and also Supervision and training in guiding others.
In a session for everyone — adults, children, adolescents, individuals and Health professionals — I guide you from my holistic vision ‘Being fully yourself!’ personally tailored to your own life questions and problems.
You are very welcome with what's going on for you!
“Maartje knows exactly how to get to the heart of the matter so that you can get back in touch with yourself better.”
— Irina, University teacher
Your strengths & authenticity are paramount!
Each Session is a wonderful and unique collaboration. Thereby, your strengths and authenticity are paramount. I guide you in a way that you can apply all insights and tools into your daily life, work and/or relationships in your very own way; as it really suits you best. That works!
My way of working is by many people characterized as amongst others:
Insightful, powerful, empathetic, wise, professional, healing, loving, reliable, non-judgmental, authentic, inspiring, practical, logical, simple, light, opening, life changing and from heart to heart.
Let yourself be inspired by the many beautiful reviews from others below.
This is what others experience:
“Maartje has been able to successfully guide me during many challenging transitional moments in my life. I experience Maartje as someone who is very down to earth, very grounded in her body and can also intuitively sense what is going on. Maartje also really has the power to see the body as an intelligent system.”
— Sumaya, Psychologist
“What I have learned in the Sessions with Maartje is to connect more with the Heart instead of the mind that is sometimes really quite chaotic. It has helped me a lot to get some rest and to get out of that busyness of my head. And the way Maartje does that is just very warm, very respectful, very nice.”
— Rianne, Coach & teacher
“A Session with Maartje is always a gift to myself. It feels to me as if Maartje is walking next to me on my path and that she then helps me to broaden my view. It so often helps me to put different puzzle pieces of experiences in my life together, which in turn helps me to take steps into the direction that suits me best.”
— Els, Teacher
“Conversations with Maartje give insight into myself: why I do the things I do or why I feel a certain way. Maartje gives crystal clear explanations, and is to the point and concise. It is always with pleasure that I leave, because understanding myself better feels good.”
— Ellen Siebenlist, Teacher early retirement
“Very nice, I feel like I’ve known you for years!”
“As I write this, I realize once again how much impact you have had in my life and my relationship. I am extremely grateful to you for that!”
— Sessions 1:1 & 1:2 with partner
“What a nice and calm approach Maartje gives. Deeply connected to her own strength, she also gave me strength in my path of grief. A process that takes time and in which Maartje opened hatches to continue with life. Very nice to come to her.
Thanks again for your thoughts in my process.”
— Odile Dejong
“It’s all so clear to me now. I already read it on your website, but it really is!”
“The feeling of my core was awakened by the advice Maartje gave. Always from the starting point of myself as a basis. Not woo woo, but spiritual and grounded with a lot of self-love and mildness. It was that gentleness and feeling that gave direction to the roads I want to go!
The insights that Maartje gave me were healing…. I can take new steps in my new phase of life. Thank you very much Maartje. I wish for everyone to meet Maartje!!!”
— Jolien, Teacher
“What makes Maartje so special is her sensitivity, her empathy and compassion. And the ability to put this into words. Words that you often cannot find yourself, but that so accurately put your finger on what is really going on.
She holds up a mirror to you in a non-judgmental and loving way. She helps you gain your own insights by identifying how things resonate with her.
With Maartje next to you, you walk your own path, completely at your own pace. The peace and space she radiates makes you feel free to be yourself with all your struggles and doubts. Maartje has brought me back from getting hung up on details to embracing the bigger picture. I am extremely grateful to her for that!”
“You are so very grounded!
— dr. Psychologist (PhD) & Study advisor
“Your sensitivity really is emotionally empathetic. You took me across the Mindfulness-bridge that was unknown to me before. It’s a new dimension of being for me. Great experience thanks to your confidence-inspiring approach. Thank you.”
— Jos H.
“I really enjoyed talking with you. It has helped me a lot.”
— Medical doctor in training
“I normally never give a 10 or grade A, but in Maartje's case I would be happy to do so. Maartje is a very pleasant personality who knows how to make you feel safe. At Maartje you always feel taken seriously and she also takes the time for you. She knows exactly how to get to the heart of the matter so that you can get back in touch with yourself better. I am very grateful to Maartje for her role in this.”
— Irina, University teacher
“I find it very valuable and enriching to come to you.”
“Thank you for your step-by-step guidance to the core in finding answers.”
— Hanneke van Dalen, Mindfulness trainer
“The Session walk really did me good. Because it gave me insights that I needed at the time.”
— Saskia
“Your presence is opening.”
— Psychologist
“Many thanks again! Was and is a super valuable process. Gained many life-changing insights that address issues at the source instead of treating symptoms. Your listening ear, visual attitude, powerful feedback and focus on the balance between body and mind has done me a lot of good.”
— Stijn
“I walk home on clouds!”
— Physiotherapist
“I can now finally eat vegetables and meat without gagging, I am so relieved!”
— Anke
“Peace, being allowed to eat everything, attention to myself, insight. Broken circle of: ‘dieting, gaining weight and more sadness’. I'm back in balance! Thank you for all the insights and your being.”
— Ulrike
“It was (is) very helpful for me to work with what needs attention in the moment. There was mildness and compassion and from there we could look together at the underlying question 'What wants to be seen here?' In this way I am able to see how my behavior with regard to food is serving, even if I am not happy with it myself. And that is exactly what gives me room to grow from acceptance. Thank you for your valuable tips on how I can get started with my recurring themes myself. Every session with you feels like a special gift to myself. I am already looking forward to the next session.”
— Els, Teacher
“What really suits me so much better now than in the period before I came to Maartje is ignoring negative thoughts and fears and realizing that they are just thoughts. What I also do much better is being more aware of what is already here now and being able to enjoy it more and be satisfied with it. I really experience myself differently and better than before.”
— Hans
“Using colors to clarify certain things in the mind is very helpful.”
“I would like to thank you very much for the wonderful sessions and the safe environment.”
— HR advisor
“Beautiful how in two sessions with a number of ‘to-the-point’ questions you got me thinking about the person I am and the direction I want to take in my life!”
— Mieneke, Social worker
“Thank you for your conversations and insights lately!”
— Medical doctor (GP)
* Being fully yourself and living with joy!
* Enjoy 12 years of practice experience.
* For private individuals & Health Professionals.
Questions? Maybe your answer is here:
— Is reimbursement possible? Yes, reimbursement is possible by the employer. I often provide a quote in the name of the employer for 3 Sessions (more/ less in consultation). After approval of the quote by the employer and agreement of the session dates with you, the invoice will be made in the name of the employer. Freely request a quote here.
Sessions for adults are not reimbursed by the health insurer. I work independently with a unique and powerful holistic vision & method personally tailored to your needs. Without the need for lengthy waiting lists, intakes, diagnosis and treatment trajectories. More information can be found above under 'how do I work?'.
— New - For people living on or below the Dutch social minimum income, there are sometimes a few Session spots available at a reduced rate. If this applies to you and you can't make an appointment for financial reasons, you can request a spot by sharing your request for help, motivation, and financial situation. Request a Session spot here.
— I am taking medication, can I make an appointment? Yes, the use of medication (e.g. sleeping pills, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs) is not an obstacle to a Session.
Please note: All materials shared during or after your Session(-s) are under copyright; they are for your personal use only and may not be made public or shared with third parties (e.g., visual overviews with pointers, insights & practical tools, meditations, and more). Sessions are not a substitute for medical advice. Sessions can be booked additionally in consultation.
The above information has been prepared based on previously asked questions and experience.
Connecting fully with yourself/ others/ your environment and living with joy.
You can directly book your Session.
Questions? Contact me here.