Here-and-now - Psychology within Reach

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Therapeutic process One Step At a Time

To help you understand how the therapeutic process unfolds, I describe below the practical steps and how my therapeutic style intertwines with the diversity of human experiences that come to my therapy room.

Free introduction

To start your registration process, you need to click on the button to request a First Contact. That will lead you to the calendar to plan a free online introductory meeting. During said meeting you can share your initial questions and have a chance to consider how well I could respond to your needs.

Having a clearer initial picture, I will also be able to decide if the support I can offer you suits your needs or if it would be advisable to go to another level of psychological care. This referral may also occur during the intake phase once I have had a chance to evaluate the case in more detail.

In the event of having my practice fully booked at the time of our first meeting, I will let you know when I expect to have more availability and offer you the possibility of being placed on a waiting list.

Your portal

If during our first meeting it seems clear that I may be the right professional to meet your request for psychological support, I will ask you for some information to send you the email with the login data for our patient portal. For this I will need you to have a valid identity document with you.

Through this portal you can follow our therapeutic relationship, upload the necessary documents (e.g., your referral letter if applicable) and complete any relevant consent forms and questionnaires for different phases in your therapeutic process.

In addition to checking your file, you can also view your appointment history. Just bear in mind that appointments (and any changes to them) are displayed on the portal within approximately one business day of being scheduled.

Please note that if you are seeking couples counseling, your partner also needs to register, so both of you must be present at the initial meeting.

Booking your sessions

When you fill out your intake form in the portal, you will also receive the link to our booking system through which you can plan, pay and reschedule your sessions as needed.

It will only be important to remember that changes in the scheduled time and date are only possible with 48 hours’ notice. Switching between face-to-face and online sessions, however, can be done up to the day of the appointment.

If you need to cancel a session, as long as it is not a complete interruption of your treatment, it is advisable to reschedule to a future date even if you do not yet know if it will be the definitive one. Otherwise, we may incur unnecessary banking transactions.

Intake phase

Our first contacts are part of the so-called intake phase.

Throughout this phase, while we will highlight the issues that brought you to therapy, we also go over some biographical data to establish the framework in which we are moving. We will assess the initial situation, with the possible help of diagnostic instruments, and decide on a course of action. To speed up this exchange of information without limiting our time in the sessions, the portal will be our great ally.

This phase will end with the proposal of a treatment agreement.

Co-creating your path

It is also desirable that we include in our journey moments of evaluation to ensure we adopt the necessary changes in our path to respond to the circumstances of each moment On the one hand, you will be able to fill out a self-reflection form between sessions and on the other hand, to measure your progress, I will also invite you to fill out the CORE-OM and WHODAS 2.0 questionnaires Finally, I will make available a satisfaction survey for you as part of our farewell step.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

I invite you to get to know me and decide if I could be a good companion on the road.

First contact

within Reach

About me and how my practice offers mental health care to bring a sense of home to nationals and internationals.

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Before we meet

Practical information before you start your therapeutic process so we can establish the boundaries of our relationship.

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Once your need for support has been addressed, you can decide which setting seems most appropriate for you to begin your journey to feeling better.

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Psychology within Reach
Vuurvlindersingel, 403
3544 DB Utrecht
Netherlands

Phone +31 30 636 8981
Mon. – Fri.– 9 am – 6:30 pm