Heal childhood wounds - reclaim your natural energy and authenticity
Come home to yourself
Primal Childhood Deconditioning:
10 - session therapy trajectory
You were born open and trusting. Love, joy, sense of wonder, self worth were natural qualities within you.
At some point, due to painful or traumatic situations in your childhood, you learned to adapt.
You learned when to be quiet, when to be strong, when to hold back parts of yourself in order to belong, be loved, or stay safe.
These adaptations were intelligent and necessary to survive, but they came at a cost. Sometimes it meant you had to suppress your authenticity and life energy.
What you once suppressed didn’t disappear. It lives on in your nervous system, your adult relationships, your patterns. It may show up as repeating dynamics, emotional reactivity, disconnection from yourself, or a quiet sense that something essential is missing.
PRIMAL work invites you to meet these layers directly. Not through analysis, but through experience. It creates space to reconnect with the parts of you that learned to survive early in life, and to bring conscious presence to what is yet unresolved.
This work is not about becoming someone new. It is about unbecoming anything that you are not. When layers of conditioning fall away, you can begin to reconnect with parts of yourself that were always there to begin with - your aliveness, joy, power, love and authenticity. Recognising the wounds that make us reactive allows us to live as mature, integrated adults.
Ultimately, you get to come home to yourself and allow the unique gifts of your being to be fully lived and expressed.
Curious how Primal Therapy can support you?
This work is for you if…
↠ You find yourself stuck in negative patterns - living from fear, feeling small, pushing others away, beating yourself up, feeling insecure…
↠ You live mostly from your head, but wish to connect deeper with your body and emotions.
↠ You long for deep, nourishing relationships but find yourself struggling.
↠ You find it hard to express your needs and set boundaries, often ending up exhausted, resentful, cold or feeling unloveable.
↠ You live with harsh, judgemental inner voices.
↠ You have difficulty feeling and expressing healthy anger.
↠ Unresolved childhood wounds are keeping you from living a full, joyful and connected life.
↠ You want to expand your self awareness and capacity to stay present in your life.
Why look at childhood?
Experiences we have in childhood leave a deep imprint on the way we see ourselves, relate to others and move through life. When something happens that is too much for us to process, we need the presence and support of safe adults to help us feel and move through it. When that support is missing, or when the people around us are themselves the source of pain, betrayal or unsafety, we adapt and suppress essential parts of ourselves.
We may become very good, very quiet, independent, pleasing, or on the contrary provoking and loud - whatever helped us receive the attention, love or approval we needed at the time.
These survival adaptations continue to shape how we relate to ourselves and others and how we respond to daily life. We may become anxious, shut down, try to control life, or struggle to express what we really feel, without understanding why our reactions are so strong.
You may understand your childhood well, have forgiven your parents, or feel that you’ve already moved on. Or you may think you had a perfect happy childhood. And yet you might still struggle with patterns that you don’t consciously choose.
Looking at childhood is not about blaming the past or endlessly analysing what happened. It is about becoming aware of the conditioning that was formed there, so that you no longer have to live from old patterns and can respond to life from where you are now, with more freedom to choose how you want to live your own authentic life.
What you can expect
What happens in the sessions?
Each session has a clear structure and theme, while the way we work with it is unique to you. We follow the process according to what is alive in you and what you need in the moment, bringing the themes of the trajectory into your own history, relationships and present-day life.
Talking is part of the process, but this is not talk therapy. The work is deeply embodied and experiential. The body can reveal things that the mind has learned to overlook, protect or forget. Through the body, emotions and direct experience, we explore what is beneath the familiar story, allowing that which is not accessible through words alone to emerge and eventually be transformed.
What might this work open up for you?
✤ A deeper connection with your body and emotions, and more freedom to feel and express what is true for you.
✤ Greater awareness of the patterns and beliefs that shape your relationships, choices and ways of being, so you can begin to respond from the present rather than automatically repeating the past.
✤ More freedom to express your needs, set boundaries and take up space.
✤ The possibility to unlock and release emotions that have been held back, including anger, sadness, grief and pain, and reconnect with life energy that lies locked underneath.
✤ A renewed connection with your natural qualities that may have become difficult to access, such as your inherent trust, creativity, playfulness, power, love and joy.
✤ More courage to live your life in a way that feels true to you, rather than according to old expectations of who you should be.
Curious if Primal is for you ?
What clients say
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What you will receive
10 one-on-one therapy sessions (1,5-2hr)
A structured process through different themes of conditioning, each session supporting your individual experience.
Home practices
After each session you will receive a practice to help you deepen the experience and integrate the work between sessions.
Ongoing personal support
You are welcome to reach out to me between sessions with questions, reflections or anything that comes up around the process.
Resources for everyday life
The practices, experiences and awareness you develop in the sessions can continue to support you in your relationships, choices, and everyday life long after the therapy trajectory ends.
Your investment
€1,000 incl. VAT
Payment in instalments is possible upon request.
Questions before getting started?
Get in touch.
Session plan
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Connecting your adult self with the inner child to build safety and awareness.
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Exploring internalized messages and beliefs that limit your freedom and self-expression.
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Reconnecting with your authentic energy and understanding family dynamics that still live in your unconscious.
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Healing your relationship to pleasure, sensuousness, and bodily awareness.
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Learning to recognize and establish your emotional and physical boundaries. What you needed then, and still need today.
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Processing trapped feelings to release old pain and reclaim your energy.
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Soothing early wounds to rebuild a foundation of safety and trust.
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Born again: A soft yet powerful renewal of your true self beyond past trauma.
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Anchoring the transformations you’ve made to support lasting change and inner harmony.
The method
This work weaves together elements from Gestalt therapy, Reichian Pulsation, guided regression, family constellations, somatic and breathwork practices, meditation techniques and essence work.
Each approach opens a different doorway into your inner world - helping you access and release suppressed emotions held in the body, so they can be felt, transformed and integrated.
Frequently asked questions
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Each trajectory is 10 sessions, with recommended weekly or bi-weekly session frequency. Depending on the frequency, it will take 2,5 - 5 months.
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I work in primarily English. If you speak another language, most of the session content will be in English, and some practices you will be doing in your own language.
*For dutch people: My dutch is at advanced level, therefore I can support you extra when needed. -
Sessions will take place online via Zoom - you can do them from the comfort of your home. You will need a private room where you are not disturbed and can fully be with the process.
Upon request there might be a possibility to do sessions in-person in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. -
If necessary you can pay in installments. We can discuss that during the introductory call.
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No previous experience is needed to do this work, only a dedication and commitment to yourself and your life. If you do have previous experience, it will be supportive to your journey.