Bert-Jan Zuiderduin (MBACP, MSc)

About me

I offer a warm, nonjudgmental and personable environment, where you can feel safe to engage with difficult feelings or thoughts and reflect on them in a confidential and reliable space.

Over the years, I have worked successfully with people from a variety of ages and backgrounds. I have supported them through difficult times by helping them to express thoughts and feelings and to understand themselves better. This lead to improved self-acceptance, better integration between different “parts” of your personality and an opening up to more creative approaches to life situations and relationships.

Working primarily from a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic perspective, I also bring my own interpretations, reflections and associations, when I think they can help the process or add a perspective. I often focus on the unconscious, including work with dreams and their multi-layered personal meanings.

Evidence increasingly shows that the benefits of psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapies increase with time and that they bring continued improvement (in symptoms and self-awareness) even long after the therapy has ended, reaching beyond symptom relief.