For clinicians and referrals
A short summary for colleagues considering a referral, and for teams looking for teaching.
Scope of practice
- Psycholoog NIP, membership no. 248744 (Netherlands) - professional association, not BIG-registered. Sessions are not reimbursed under Dutch basic health insurance.
- Adults and older adults, individually and in groups. Online only, including clients in Israel and the Netherlands.
- Hebrew and English.
- Modalities: CBT, psychodynamic therapy, Schema Therapy, EMDR and psychophysiological techniques, used integratively.
Common referrals
- Anxiety disorders, including health anxiety, panic, anticipatory anxiety before investigations, and other anxiety presentations.
- Adjustment to a new diagnosis; diabetes distress; treatment adherence difficulties; living with chronic illness.
- PTSD, including trauma following a medical event, treated with EMDR.
- Obesity, emotional eating and body image, including post-bariatric and GLP-1 patients.
- Fertility treatment, pregnancy loss and the transition to parenthood.
- Burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury in medical staff.
Not within scope
- Emergency and acute risk management.
- Psychiatric prescribing or medication review.
- Couple therapy, and work with children and adolescents.
- Nutritional treatment or dietetic advice.
- Formal psychodiagnostic assessment for legal or institutional purposes.
How to refer
There is no referral form. Give the patient the website address, or email a brief note with the clinical question and how to contact them, and I will make contact directly. Please make sure the patient knows you are sharing their details.
Teaching for medical teams
I teach on the psychological side of medical work: coping with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, psychological aspects of obesity, motivation, and assessment and brief intervention within the consulting room. Sessions can be adapted for departments, clinics and training days.