drs Monique van den Brande
Practice for Counselling/Coaching and
Couples Therapy
YOUTH-STUDENTS COUNSELLING AND COACHING
In this context, as a young person or student, you may be struggling with a variety of themes or issues. You feel insecure, you are afraid of failure, you have lost your motivation for school or study, your connection with parents is changing or you have experienced something unpleasant. And you feel like you're on your own.
In situations like these, counselling/coaching can serve as a (low threshold) form of therapy (counseling). Step-by-step, we look at what you find difficult or what bothers you, where you are uncertain about, and together we look for a solution that suits you best and that you can depend on so you can keep going. Through our conversations I help you come to insight.
Common help-questions:
● Worries, who am I and where do I want to go?
● Doubts about the study choice
● Expectations of others
● Loss of motivation and/or control
Making choices in life
● Stress and burn-out
● Relationships
● Parents’divorce
● Heartbreak
● Self-image
● Perfectionism and performance pressure
COUNSELLING AND COACHING
Sometimes things happen in life that you feel unable to solve on your own. On the one hand you realize that changes are needed, but on the other hand you can't quite figure them out by yourself. Then counselling/coaching could help. I guide and support you in achieving your specific goals and developing your skills that can help with this.
I focus on emotional support and help you explore feelings so that you become more capable of dealing with psychological and emotional problems yourself.
In doing so, it is crucial to discuss together what you think is the best approach for you and how you see your plan of action. It is important to know that as a counsellor/coach, I am there to support you and not to provide you with the solution. Through our conversations, I help you independently come to insight(s). This way you also learn how to better help yourself in case other, or sometimes the same kind of situations arise again in the future.
Counselling/Coaching helps with :
● Feeling insecure or indecisive
● Feeling unable to oversee problems
● Finding it difficult to make decisions
● Coping with major life changes
● Making important choices or plans
RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
Relationship therapy is meant for working on your relationship together, because sometimes you just can't work it out the two of you. So if you want to improve your relationship or work on your problems the three of us together, as a couples therapist I can help you with this very well.
I am a qualified EFT therapist. EFT stands for Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), or emotion-focused couples therapy, which focuses on improving the connection between partners. As a couples’ therapist, together you and I will establish the goals that we will work on together. We pay attention to the whole relationship: the interplay of different needs, desires and (emotional) safety.
Relationship therapy helps with:
● Adultery and infidelity
● Living apart from each other
● Arguments or irritations about recurring issues
● Feeling of growing apart
● Lack of mutual affection and/or understanding
● Communication problems
● Childlessness
● Not feeling "at home" with each other anymore
As a couples therapist, I carefully listen to both partners and together we look at where the issues lie and what caused the negative patterns in the relationship. Together we try to find the connection again by redirecting the patterns to a positive connection.
ABOUT ME
I am Monique van den Brande.
I was already interested in what moves (or sometimes blocks) people during my Psychology studies. In the following years I lived with my husband and four children in many countries around the world and experienced all the fun (and sometimes not so fun) impact of being an expat.
During that time, I also did various advanced training courses such as young adult coaching and relationship therapy. When I think of my personal and professional experience, I consider myself as a "coaching generalist",
TRAININGS:
● Social and organizational psychology Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (drs)
● Training for Coach/Counselor (Academy for Psychotherapy Amsterdam)
● Mediator training (Royal University of Leuven)
● Training for Youth Coach (Academy for Psychotherapy Amsterdam)
● EFT therapy (EFT Netherlands)
(Should you have any questions or want to know more about me please feel free to contact me).
RATES
● Intake conversation (30 min) free of charge
● Counselling/Coaching session (60 min) 90 euros
● Young adults/students (60 min) 75 euro
● Relationship therapy (60 min) 110 euro
● Relationship therapy (90 min) 135 euro
If an appointment cannot take place and has to be rescheduled, I ask that you give 24 hours notice; otherwise you will be charged for the full fee.
