Ylonka de Rave, NIP-registered psychologist

Hi, I'm Ylonka.

A psychologist, a mother of three, and someone who knows how it feels when life shakes the ground beneath you.

Not only because I have been seeing it in my clients for more than 15 years. I know these problems from the inside as well. I have been through challenges of my own and overcome them with the same methods I use in our therapy sessions. I carry that experience into our sessions, and it helps you find something to hold on to.

I am in the thick of life myself: a mother of three, a business owner, choosing my own balance again every single day. Understand, feel, change: to me these are not separate concepts. It is how I live. I build my own base camp every day. You notice that in the way I work with you, and in what you come to experience yourself. I have learned that I can carry the challenges in my life. So can you.

I worked in youth care for years. There I saw parents who wanted the best for their children, but who unknowingly passed on what they had never worked through themselves. Not because they did not want to, but because nobody had ever helped them recognise those patterns and break them. I will help you do exactly that.

You cannot control life. What you can do is build a solid place inside yourself to fall back on. Working on your own base camp does not only change your life. It also changes how you meet the world: towards your partner, your children, your colleagues. And so, bit by bit, you break the cycle.

How I work

Committed, direct and honest. Sometimes we go looking for what is uncomfortable, because growth begins where there is friction. At the same time I work at your pace, without judgement, with warmth.

What I stand for

Honesty: I say what needs saying, gently but clearly.
Connection: Nothing is off limits.
Ownership: You set the direction.
Equality: One person alongside another.
Growth: Every step counts.

Background and registrations

  • NIP-registered psychologist, member number 243700
  • Master's in Psychology and Mental Health
  • 15+ years of experience in youth care and adult care
  • Training: EMDR, schema-focused techniques (Freedom to Fly), RET, body-oriented interventions, solution-focused therapy, CBT
  • Works to the professional code of the NIP and to the Dutch Healthcare Quality, Complaints and Disputes Act (Wkkgz)

I build my own base camp, every single day.

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