Therapy for life stage crises such as midlife crisis

Everyone faces it. With different phases in his or her life. You can think of birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and aging. With each phase there is an expectation or different expectations. From yourself, but also from society, the social circle/culture in which you find yourself. At some point you have to become independent, find your own home, build a career, find a life partner and maybe even have children. And eventually when you are a little older you will retire and be able to enjoy what you have built.

But what can also happen is that there are phases in your life that you are not yet ready for. Things are going differently than you or the other person imagined. You haven't found the right partner, you're not satisfied with your career, you're not succeeding in starting a family, or you're having trouble getting older. In these situations, you may experience feelings of insecurity, anger, doubt or gloom.

When people have trouble adjusting to the new stage of life they are currently in, we speak of life-stage problems or life-stage issues.

Characteristics of life-stage problems include:

• Feeling insecure about yourself;
• Difficulty making choices;
• Experiencing anxiety and doubt;
• Having the feeling or thought, "What should I do now?";
• Feeling or having the thought, "Is this my life now and do I want this?";
• Having trouble sleeping.

What can I do for you?

I am convinced that you yourself can take good steps toward accepting the new and associated feelings and thoughts. If this does not work, it is very nice to experience help with the problems and feelings that do not go easily. Together we can look for the core of these feelings, where do your needs lie? And how can you experience freedom of movement again in this 'new' phase.

You can talk about it, but we will also work in a body-oriented way. You can feel where you really are. In the here and now. In psychodynamic therapy we use mindfulness. Recognizing and learning to accept what is and from there, in contact with yourself, to experience again the peace of the phase in which you are now. All your experiences and feelings in the (previous) phases of your life have brought you to where you are now.

I'd like to help you

If you recognize yourself in the above descriptions and would like to work with me, then I would love to hear from you. Feel free to contact me for more information or to make a first appointment.