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Cas Hebbink

Psychologist & Counsellor

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I aim to create a growth-facilitating, compassionate environment to explore your experience, process your past and integrate distinct parts of yourself into a more balanced and harmonious whole. First free consultation.
  • €85 / session
  • Couples Therapy (1.5hrs) - €125 / session
  • Online Group Therapy (2hrs) - €30 / session
  • First free consultation (25 min) - €0 / session
Based inBerlin
Available online

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About me

Through my experience, (self-)studies and therapeutic work, I've learned a lot about the human psyche, behavioural change, emotional regulation, mindfulness, honest communication, trauma processing, somatic processing, problem-solving, authentic relating and the healing power of loving relationships, and the importance of taking responsibility for one's life and accepting who one is.

During my psychology studies, I gained the most from setting up and participating in a peer-support group in which we openly explored our experiences. I learned to cultivate attitudes of unconditional positive regard, genuineness and empathic understanding towards myself and others. I learned how to receive others more wholly and help them come closer to themselves by immersing myself in their experience as best as I could.

During my work as a counsellor, I've worked with people from all over the world from various backgrounds dealing with a wide range of problems related to work, relationships, substance use, (developmental) trauma, emotional neglect, racism and other forms of discrimination, low self-worth, lack of meaning, depression, suicidality, anxiety, feeling and expressing emotions, standing up for oneself, setting healthy boundaries, obsessions, compulsions and much more.

I want to share what I've learned with others who want help working through their difficulties (past, present, and "future"), need support, want to get to know themselves better and learn to live more fully and relate more authentically. Through my counselling service, I wish to help you help yourself by providing you with a loving, caring environment to facilitate your personal growth, work through your past, learn to live more fully in the present, become who you truly are and live towards the future you dream of.

My approach

I attempt to create an empathic, accepting and understanding climate to openly explore your experience, work through traumas, develop greater self-understanding, learn to feel your experience and embody your emotions, come to accept yourself, solve or transcend your problems, and find meaning in your challenges. I see therapy as the colaborative process of client and therapist encountering each other with genuine openness and the shared desire to help you expand and thrive and as a process to be enjoyed with creativity, humor, and sensitivity.

My primary role as your counsellor is to help you help yourself by providing you with a facilitative environment in which you can process your past, tackle present challenges and tap into your potential for growth. I aim to cultivate your ability to live authentically, establish meaningful relationships and pursue your life goals. Through this approach, I can help you work on a wide range of symptoms, challenges and aspirations by developing a personalized therapy attuned and adapted to your specific needs and struggles.

My counselling practice is informed by various therapeutic schools including client-centred humanistic, psychodynamic, emotion-based, existential, cognitive-behavioural, experiential, sensorimotor, and Jungian psychotherapy. I incorporate Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness techniques, and dream work in my counselling as needed and continue to expand my practice with what I learn from books, supervision and personal experience.

I offer a first free 25 min consultation session during which, we can get to know each other, explore what you want my help with, find out how well we fit, determine your aims and agree on our goals for therapy.

Practicalities:
- 50-minute online sessions
- Weekly or bi-weekly sessions are the norm but other schedules can be discussed to adjust to your needs and desires
- Intake form and contract after our first consultation
- Monthly invoices

Where I practice

Qualifications and experience

Education
2024 - today MSc Clinical Psychology, Universiteit van Amsterdam 2017 - 2020 BSc Psychology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 2020 - today Individual therapy, mentoring and training under expert supervision 2021 - today Psychotherapy intervision groups 2017 - today Martial arts and movement practitioner (embodiment practices)
Experience
2024 - today Psychologist in Amsterdam 2022 - today Group Therapy facilitator 2020 - 2024 Psychological Counsellor in Berlin 2019 - 2022 Organizing workshops on facilitating therapeutic spaces 2017 - 2021 Founder and facilitator of Amsterdam based support group WeSHARE
Languages
Dutch
English
Insurances
Private Pay
  • €85 / session
  • Couples Therapy (1.5hrs) - €125 / session
  • Online Group Therapy (2hrs) - €30 / session
  • First free consultation (25 min) - €0 / session
Based inBerlin
Available online
Usually responds within one day

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