Eva Niencke psychological coach · speaker · researcher

about · in practice since 2023

I started in psychology. Then I took a long detour. Now I'm back.

I studied social and economic psychology, focused on emotions and consumer behavior, and spent some time as a Psychology PhD student and teaching assistant at the University of Lausanne. I loved the depth of it but missed the action. So I left, and for the next 15 years I worked inside educational and global organizations before coming back to psychology.

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the registration

Psychologist-NIP (Netherlands), ICF coaching diploma, MSc Psychology.

the road

On paper, strategy. In practice, people.

On paper, my career looked like strategy, innovation, consulting, enablement, and leadership roles. In practice, it was always about people. I was more passionate about the buyer and student experience than the sale and the politics, more dedicated to my mentees and our Culture Club than to climbing the career ladder (though I also accidentally did that).

"At some point I realized I had been doing psychology the whole time. I just wasn't calling it that."

In parallel, I trained as a coach, worked and educated myself across different disciplines to first understand myself better and in turn help others, and eventually went through my own assessment process. In my early forties, I was identified as neurodivergent (AuDHD) and re-assessed as profoundly gifted. In 2023, I returned to my love for psychology and started this practice.

In 2024, Vogue Leaders recognized me for neurodivergent leadership and AI, for bringing psychology into the corporate world.

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on paper

Three layers of formal training, built across two decades.

i. university degrees
  • MSc Social Psychology, specialism Economic Psychology. Thesis on emotion research, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
  • BSc Psychology and Society. Thesis on emotion research, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
  • Registered Psychologist, Psycholoog-NIP. Netherlands Institute of Psychologists, active registration.
ii. professional diplomas
  • Integrative Coach Professional Diploma. ICF-trained, Become Coaching and Training, 66 hours.
  • Stanford LEAD, Leadership for Innovation and Change. Stanford Graduate School of Business, one year.
  • RYT-200 Yoga Sports Coach and Yoga Teacher. Yoga Sports Science, with Hayley Winter, 200 hours.
iii. specialist certificates (cpd, nccap, cma, iphm, icahp accreditation)
  • Neurodivergent Coach. Efficient Coach, 40 hours.
  • Play-Based Therapy. Efficient Therapist, 40 hours.
  • Child Psychology Coach. Naturalistico, 40 hours.
  • Teen Life Coach. Naturalistico, 40 hours.
  • Mindful, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training. Yoga Medicine Online, 20 hours.
specialist training and the modalities inside the work
  • Gifted Psychology for Coaches. One year, Intergifted, with Jennifer Harvey Sallin.
  • Gifted Profiling. Three months, Intergifted, with Jennifer Harvey Sallin.
  • Mindfulness Foundations for Gifted Women. Six weeks, Gifted Mindfulness Collective, Kelly Pryde.
  • Leadership in a Changing World. Six months, Intergifted.
  • Play-based, Innovation, and Design Thinking. Various programs, IDEO and Design Thinkers Academy.
  • Women's Leadership Development. One year, Adobe.
  • Several years of additional training in body-based and present-moment inquiry methods, studied without pursuing formal certification. These inform how the work moves beyond purely verbal processes in a session.

the combination

Why all of this, in one practice.

What I bring to this work is the combination: a psychology degree that goes to the root of how emotions and patterns form, coaching training that knows how to create change, somatic and yoga practice that brings the body into the room, giftedness and neurodivergence expertise for the minds standard tools can miss, and lived experience on both sides of a late diagnosis.

You don't have to translate yourself across disciplines. Everything is in the same room.

a first conversation

Want to see if the work is right for you?

A first conversation is free, informal, and takes about 30 minutes. Get in touch and I'll get back to you within three business days.

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