For you


In professional coaching I focus on coaching ambitious and well-educated professionals, who aim to maximise their potential by being truly authentic. My clients are lawyers, medics, dentists, consultants, creatives, teachers, phd's and parents returning to work. They all have different backgrounds and nationalities: English, American, French, Czech, Russian, Kenian, Columbian, Ecuador, Chinese, Gambian, from all around the world.

Coaching helps you to explore and realise your full potential. To identify who you currently are, what your attributes, preferences and skills are, and what it is that makes your life meaningful for you. This will enable you to develop and grow from a sense of self-confidence and to flourish by staying close to your self.



Coaching specialities


As a professional or expat life can be very demanding. It may be very useful and helpful to get professional support in your personal development. You may have a specific question, or need some coaching sessions to work on your goal, at some other moments it can really feel good to talk to someone who is unbiased and professional. You can approach me with coaching questions regarding:



Your career

What are my attributes, talents and/or motivation? Which direction do I want to give to my (professional) life? How to prevent stress and burnout? How to tackle career dilemmas? How to keep my job?


Your life as an expat

How to handle a full time job or taking care of small children and a partner whom you see only on the weekends. How to manage both career and family expectations in a foreign country far away from home? How to gain intercultural competencies


Your relationships (business wise and in private matters)


How can I improve my communication skills in a positive and effective way? How to rediscover work life balance? How to move on with life after a broken relationship?


Your presentations, CV writing

How to overcome your fear to speak in public or in front of your collegueas during a meeting? How to boost and personalise my CV/Resumes and cover letters? What are the do’s and don’ts during an interview?


TMA Talent Method

As a certified TMA Professional I work with TMA Talent Method. TMA connects organizations with employees and helps you to develop your talents, competencies and career by providing clear insights into talents, competencies, career and development opportunities.

The key to the success of TMA Method lies in its ability to connect individual talents to professional behavior indicators, based on competencies and performancemanagement. TMA Assessments, reports and recommendations are communicated in a non-judgmental and talent-oriented manner, based on positive psychology.

  • Make employees work on the basis of their drives and talents in order to achieve betterresults and competencies.
  • Focus on the talents and competencies already present and develop them.ü Discover and develop talents.
  • People act when they do what they are good at or whenthey know about their talents. In the long run, stimulating a person using a negativeapproach is more difficult and less effective.
  • Find out which competencies are easy to develop based on intrinsic motivation .

TMA-Method-Leaflet-1.pdf





My approach

We start our coaching programme with a free intake session to get to know each other. During this meeting I will show you how I work and we will discuss how we can work together. We will both check if there is a fit to proceed. I will estimate how many coaching sessions are needed (normally 4-6, a longer programme 8-12 sessions). There will be a timeslot of 2-3 weeks in between sessions to give you space and time to do homework and exercises.

The coaching model I use is called GROW (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) combined with NLP (Neuro linguistic Programming) tools. I offer you optimism, encouragement and guidance to set your goals and keep your bigger picture in mind.

I’m a certified TMA Professional and willing to include TMA Talent Management (TMA method) in our coaching session as a way to assess and develop your talents to find the best career opportunities. (TMA talent assessment, TMA competencies and TMA 360 degree feedback).




Full journey career coaching
(9 hours)

In a full journey career coaching I will support you to:

- get insight in your career history so far
- find your passions, values, mission and meaning
- assess your skills, talents, strengths and uniqueness
- discover what you want and need from a career at this stage in your life
- do the research and learning you need to prepare for transistion and your chosen career
- make it happen by setting goals, staying motivated and developing the self-belief and confidence you need
- make a personal development plan

Short journey career coaching
(4 hours)

If you would like to explore some of the steps in career coaching, that's also possible.

Sometimes you already know what your skills are, but you need support where to find a job where you can use these skills. Then, we focus on this area and make a personal development plan according to your needs

Or if you like to enlarge your skills in public speaking during meetings we can also focus on this part of your job to build your confidence.

If you experience stress at work, we can focus on your time management skills and make a personal time map to get more grip on your precious time.

CV writing and Interview skills
(2,5 hours)

30 minutes:
get insight of your career history and specific objectives re applying for a job.

1 hour CV writing:
- how to build/personalise your master CV and your tailored CV for specific vacancies;
- how to actively use LinkedIN
- how to structure your cv on contents and presentation

1 hour interview skills:
- how to demonstrate confidence via body language and use emotions in a conversation;
- how to articulate your ideas/conversation crisply
choice of:
- mock interview (filmed and direct feedback) based on behavioural interview questions among adaptability, culture fit and leadership)



About me


Honest, calm and pragmatic


Originally I have a lawyer’s background in Holland. As an expat I lived in the UK and Belgium for 6 years and started my business in career coaching for professionals and expats. I'm a mum of three beautiful children.

Since 2018 our family is based in Breda and pratice career & stress coaching for professionals and expats (lawyers, medics, dentists, teachers, phd's and professionals with a creative background). I'm skilled in counselling & coaching and Licensed NLP Coach™ . I'm a certified TMA professional as well.

My experiences have equipped me with some great tools to improve communication and personal development. My clients are professionals with all kinds of nationalities. They describe my style as: wise, calm and practical.

When I'm not I'm at my practice, you can find me walking along the beach, in the forest or playing and raising our children. I love good food and cooking and I'm a passionate writer of poems too.





Certifications


  • TMA certified Professional (Nuflex), 2019
  • Licensed NLP coach (De Groeiacademie in Brugge, België), 2018
  • Licensed Master NLP (De Groeiacademie in Brugge, België), 2018/2017
  • Licensed Practitioner NLP (De Groeiacademie in Brugge, België), 2017
  • Loopbaan systeemopstellingen (SYSTO in Leuven, België), 2017
  • Professional Coach, (SYSTO in Leuven, België), 2016/2017
  • Counselling skills certificates Level II, Brockenhurst College, Engeland, 2013/2014
  • Vfas specialisatie opleiding familierecht, Vfas opleiding Utrecht, 2011/2012
  • Beroepsopleiding Advocatuur, 2006-2009
  • Master Nederlands recht (Tilburg University), 2001




Business fees


Business rate (ex VAT)

Coaching, per hour

149
TMA

350

Private fees


Coaching per hour      110

TMA                                  320