I started in psychology, took a long detour through corporate, and came back.
Psychological Coach, with full legal protection of the Coach Mentale title in Switzerland and registration as a Psychologist-NIP® #252480 in the Netherlands. Late-diagnosed gifted and AuDHD, with fourteen years of senior global strategy and innovation work behind me before I came back to psychology full-time.
What I do.
I work with adults who are smart, perceptive, and tired in a way a long weekend doesn’t fix. Most of them arrive with a specific version of the question. A relationship that has got worse. A career that slowly expected them to become someone else. A sense that they might be gifted, autistic, ADHD, or some combination (2e, 3e), and that nobody caught it when they were young. The three versions of the question usually have the same thing underneath them, and that’s what we end up working on: what that thing is, and what changes when it gets named accurately.
I hold an MSc in Economic and Social Psychology from Tilburg and a BSc in Psychology and Society. Before coming back to psychology full-time, I spent fourteen years in senior strategy and innovation roles at global companies. That history is part of how I read organizations and what happens to capable people inside them, and it’s also part of why I pivoted back.
How I got here.
After my master’s I started a PhD, but spending five years on one narrow topic turned out not to be the right shape for how my mind works. Looking back with what I now know about being gifted and AuDHD, that makes complete sense. A role in corporate came along, and I took it.
Over the years that followed I did a lot of mentoring, ran the culture club, became a facilitative leader and an innovation expert, and somewhere in there I realized that what I was really doing was psychology. I loved human-centered design and emotional shopper-journey work, I took on more mentees, and then I ran into the corporate version of moral injury myself. I opened a private practice as a psychological coach in 2023.
I practice as a Psychological Coach. In Switzerland this runs under the legally protected title Coach Mentale, with professional liability insurance for that work. In the Netherlands I registered with the Dutch psychological association in 2026 (Psychologist-NIP® #252480). Internationally, the same work runs as Psychological Coaching.
The practice is built around what I now think of as one thing showing up in three different places: late-diagnosed neurodivergence in adults (including giftedness and 2e/3e profiles), relationships and careers that ask for more than a person can keep giving, and moral injury (especially Coercive Self-Betrayal, which is the variety I’ve been researching and writing about). I work with clients on all three, and with organizations and clinicians who want to understand any of these better.
Credentials.
How I work.
Sessions are non-directive. The pace, the direction, and the decisions are yours. The work is built around listening, reflecting things back, and helping you think through what you’re carrying clearly. If something needs to slow down, it slows down. If something needs more time, it gets more time. Nothing gets pushed.
The whole picture matters: neurotype, early life, relationships, career, the injustices you’ve stood near or lived through, the patterns you were already carrying when you got there. The work doesn’t start at the symptom. It starts at what has been shaping how your body and mind cope, and what they’ve been expected to deal with.
All of my work sits on one observation. Capable adults struggle, or thrive, based on the fit between knowing your needs, living your values, and the environment you’re actually in. When the mismatch is there, it shows up in the nervous system as anxiety, burnout, freeze, the lot. The reasons under the surface vary. For some it’s neurodivergence the world never recognized. For some it’s a wound from moral injury, or a relationship or workplace that slowly required them to stop being themselves. For some it’s a mix. The architecture stays the same: what you arrived with, what life has done to you since, and where you are now, all meet in the same body. Your nervous system reads the gap. The work I do tries to understand and connect the dots for the whole person, instead of cutting them up into clinical categories that lose the person to the labels.
I also write, research, and speak. Sessions with clients are the core of what I do, but the writing and the research inform the work, and the work keeps the writing honest. If that combination is part of what brought you to this page, that’s not a coincidence.
Want to see if we might be a fit?
A first conversation is free, informal, and takes about thirty minutes. Get in touch and I’ll get back to you within 3 business days.