Art therapy from Daisy
Everyone wants to feel good. You deserve that as well!
Welcome
You are probably here because you are looking for a place where you can share your story, feelings or problems. Everyone wants to feel good. You deserve that as well!
You can feel miserable or it can be very big or nasty what you have been going through. At those moments it would be nice when you can tell your story and get your life back on track.
Feel welcome to take a look around and don’t hesitate to contact me if you want to hear more or want to make an appointment.
Warm regards, Daisyedereen wil lekker in zijn vel zitten. Jij verdient dat ook!
Practice for children, teens and adults.
Art therapy
You don’t have to be creative
Art therapy distinguishes itself from other forms of counseling by allowing clients to express themselves using art, in the form of drawing, painting or sculpture.
The main focus in art therapy is the process of creation rather than the final product. Clients are encouraged to use their own imagination and artistic expression to explore feelings, ideas and issues evoked by the art-making process.
Don’t be scared, you don’t have to be creative to do this kind of therapy. Together we look for your way of coping with the challenges you face in your live. What fits for you?
We think of an assignment together around the issue that is subject in your life right now. What you create, how you create it, and what you express with it tells something about you. That what concerns you becomes visible, tangible and concious.
Art therapy can help to get a better grip on the situation, to deal in a different way and sometimes to find words for expressing yourself.
Everyone wants to feel good. You deserve that as well!
Grief and Loss
Many of my clients have to deal with loss or a radical experience. That’s why I I’d like to give some more information about this.
When a loved one dies
It is very painful when a loved one dies. The world of the next of kin is turned upside down completely. There will be grief, confusion, and, perhaps, anger. These feelings won’t disappear by themselves and strength, courage and lots of hard work are required to learn to cope with loss. Every individual has their own way of coping, and does this at their own rate.
Divorce
A divorce evokes lots of feelings and questions. Your world is falling apart. How will it be? What is going to happen with me? Apart from sorrow and anger you can feel insecure or scared. How do you cope with all these feelings?
A divorce is, same as when someone dies, a loss. It requires hard work to integrate all the changes caused by the divorce in your life.
In my practice I guide children whose parents are still on good terms with each other. If this is not the case I refer to colleagues who are specializing in divorce.
Other losses
There are many forms of loss, such as loss of health (from yourself or a dear one). You can loose your job, your friends for instance because of a move or because of repeating a class, or you can loose a company or all the stock in a company. The loss is not always visible but can have a huge impact at your life.
Radical experience
Also a radical experience can affect your daily life. If you have been bitten by a dog, witnessed a robbery or been assaulted. When you experience something thorough, it can have a lot of impact. You can be fearful and nervous, sleep bad and sometimes you don’t dare to do what used to be very natural to you.
Sharing about the experience and your feelings
It is important to express about what happened, that helps you to cope. But sharing about your experiences is not always easy. You might not have learnt how to, or you don’t dare to, or you just don’t succeed. And did you know that you can be so confused that you don’t feel anything at all anymore?
Within art therapy, there are different ways of working around what you have been through. Many children, teens and adults like it. They feel supported and understood. Everyone wants to feel good. You deserve that as well!
When to seek help?
If you are mourning you can react differently than you are used to. You might be unreasonable or silent, you might feel like nothing or be irritated frequently. You can also be very sad or extremely happy. This is not weird considering what happened. These reactions are all expressions of your sorrow. It will automatically become less.
If these reactions will carry on for longer than a year, it might mean you get stuck in coping with your loss. At that time it might be good to look at it with a professional.
Good to know
Apart from the above reactions, children and adults are in the middle of their development and that brings it’s own challenges and reactions (see secion ‘Children and teens’ below). Also for them counts: if these reactions will carry on for a longer time, help from a professonal might be useful.
If children and teens don’t feel understood, or if they don’t have a place to express themselves, they might feel more desolated. And this could make it harder to get back on track.
It might help children and teens to talk to someone who is not emotionally involved. Someone who won’t become sad of the story.
A view on some aims in which case art therapy could be helpfull
learning to deal with fear, agression or sorrow
learning to express and/or feel emotions
learning to deal with tension or finding a way in which you can let off steam
learning to deal with situations that normally cause problems
dealing with loss (for instance after death or divorse)
dealing with a traumatic experience
dealing with situations from the past
working on self esteem (discover, develop and expand own skills and possibilities)
working on assertivity (being able to say ‘no’ or to make your own choices)
learning to structure your life (or behavior)
training different behavior and/or learning new skills
Children and teenagers
Reactions after a loss or a major event
In addition to the reactions mentioned above (in the ‘When to seek help?’ section), children and teenagers face other specific challenges and reactions as they develop. Below I would therefore like to share some more specific information about children and teenagers.
Childrens reactions
Children sometimes start to show reactions such as being sad or irritable only after a few months or even after a few years. They want to protect the parent(s) from grief. It is only when they notice that the parent(s) are doing better and things are starting to become a bit ‘normal’ again at home, that they feel safe enough to come out with their feelings.
Other common reactions:
– no longer dare to go to school (for fear of losing someone)
– being clingy, clingy behavior
– regression (returning to an earlier developmental phase such as bedwetting and thumb sucking)
– explosive emotions
– adjusted behavior
– psychosomatic complaints such as headache or stomach ache
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Teen reactions
As a teenager you are in the middle of developing your own identity. It is very normal to oppose your parents and the idea that you can and know it yourself. But it can be difficult to push yourself away when your parents (or parent) are in such distress, for example if someone in the family has died or if your parents are getting divorced. In addition, as a teenager it is often difficult to ask for help. Just because you are busy breaking free and standing on your own two feet. This can make you feel very alone.
Iedereen wil lekker in zijn vel zitten.
Art therapy in practice
In my practice I work with children, teens and adults. Together we look what fits you. In the past years I have met many beautiful people, and everyone found it’s own way to deal with what they had experienced. Below you can find some examples and pictures from my clients. I have permission to show these to you. Please take care: we ask not to copy the pictures because of privacy reasons!
Tina didn’t eat because of all tension and stress
Tina (10 years old) was often ill because of all tension and stress she experienced in her life. One day her mother called me. She was very worried because Tina didn’t eat anymore.
Tina told me that she wanted to eat, but that she just did not succeed. She really didn’t know how to get the food into her body.
While drawing a picture of her body, we found out there was a huge ‘stone’ in the way. There was literally no room for the food to go through. We decided to make this stone form plaster.
From the moment she finished the stone and gave it a place within her bedroom, she slowly managed to eat again.
Feelings of guilt
With John (12 years old) I used All the Stars Above. This is a board game that makes it easier to talk about the death of a dear one. The father of John past away a few years before.
During the game John received the question: ‘Do you sometimes think it is because of you that * died?’ We had been talking about feelings of guilt before. But John didn’t have any he said.
John drew this picture as an answer to the question. In the meantime he told that his father always told him that he wouldn’t make it till 50. “That is also what happened…”
John drew on, another phrase appeared: ‘Finish your plate.’ John often had had a hard time finisching his plate and his dad had mentioned that every evening. John thought that that might have caused this father’s heart failure.
It was good that this thought came to the surface, because now we could talk about it.
A book filled with pictures
A woman (48 years old) visited me after the sudden death of her brother.
As she found it very difficult to give words to the loss, we started to draw. This seemed to be a good way for her to discover and express thoughts and feelings. She uppermore discovered feelings of which she didn’t know they existed.
Even today drawing is a useful way for her to get insight in her emotions and feelings.
Painting of feelings
What colors fit your feelings?
This painting is made by a teenager (aged 14) with a migration background. The family had to flee their war-torn homeland. This, but also the situation in the Netherlands and the uncertainty of obtaining a residence permit caused a lot of stress.
This painting is a representation of the feelings this teenager experienced.
Playing All the Stars Above
The need of connection
Sometimes it is difficult to share what happened.
Colleague therapists told me: “When I am sitting around the table with a family and invite them to talk, they often reply: ‘What do I have to say?’ or ‘That is my brother, he already knows the story!’ There are many uncomfortable sillences.”
In their work with families, they experienced a great need for people to connect with each other after a loss.
From my point of view as an art therapist and also from my own experience as a teenager, I knew how helpful it can be when stories are shared. That is the reason why I started developing All the Stars Above.
Welcome to play
All the Stars Above is developed to play under the supervision of a therapist or coach. You can not buy the game yourself.
I my practice I use the tool very often, because the shape of a game really works well to start the conversation. The game can be played individually, but also within a family or with a group group. You are welcome to come to my practice if you want to play All the Stars Above.
Daisy doing a session with an American family
DIY products
To do someting after a major event or loss
Some people, especially young ones :-), feel better when they are able to do something after a loss or major event. Therefore I developed some creative materials to use at home.
This way children, teens and/or adults can work around the experience and express themselves.
More information about our DIY products can be found in the webshop.
Now available!
I have been using these methodes for years with nice results. The therapists who participated in a training will recognise them. And now they are also available in the webshop!
Tasks of Mourning box – for all kinds of loss!
To gain insight into your own grieving process and to gain insight in the contact with your immediate environment. After all, family members often work on different grieving tasks, which can sometimes lead to confusion.
Dice of Feelings
To gain insight into your emotions and to communicate about feelings more easily.
The client paints or draws his feelings on the die. Then, by rolling the dice and drawing question cards from a bag, there is a playful sharing about various feelings.
Registration
First meeting
Before we start we have a first meeting or intake. In this interview we look at what obstructs you and what you need. We discuss what I can offer and how we take on. This way the aim of the therapy gets clear and we can determine the duration of the therapy.
Rates
The first meeting costs € 40,00 (incl. VAT). A
session of one hour costs € 75,00 (incl. VAT).
Kilometer compensation (in case I visit your place) is €0,21 per kilometer.
Cancelation policy
If you are unable to keep appointment, you can cancel the meeting without cost until 24 hours beforehand. When the appointment is canceled less than 24 hours before, or when you forgot the appointment, I am forced to bear the costs.
Compensation
Some insurance companies offer compesation. This depends on your insurance. Check your own insurance company for compensation and notify:
– Practice Daisy Luiten
– the professional organisations I am joining.
– that I offer art therapy / psycho social therapy within the presentation code 24504 (see invoice)
– my health care AGB-code: 90034894.
Professional organisation
I am a member of the Nederlands Verbond voor Psychosociaal therapeuten (Dutch association for Psychologists, therapists and Psychotherapists. NVPA, www.nvpa.org).
I am also in the Register Beroepsbeoefenaren Complementaire Zorg (Register Complementary Care Professionals. RBCZ: www.rbcz.nu).
And I am connected to de Geschillencommissie voor de Complementaire en Alternatieve Gezondheidszorg (Disputes Committee for the Complementaire and alternative healthcare. SCAG, www.scag.nl).
Bereavement referral archife Netherlands
I am registered as a certified grief and bereavement counselor in the referral archife of the Dutch National Bereavement Support Organization. (LSV, www.steunbijverlies.nl).
Community Connection in Loss
I am a member of the Community Connection in Loss from Belgium. This is a network where colleagues from the Netherlands and Belgium meet each other. We are all professionally involved in bereavement, illness, grief and loss.
We can contact each other on a nice platform. We find each other, refer to each other, we expand each other’s worlds, we co-operate and we support each other. Everyone wants to feel good. You deserve that as well!
Contact details
Practice and company: Daisy Luiten
Daisy Jeurink-Luiten
Art therapist and bereavement counselor
Willem Kesstraat 18
7425 GK Deventer
Netherlands
+31 (0)570 869 113
https://www.daisyluiten.com
info@daisyluiten.com or send an email via the contact page.
Chamber of commerce No.: 27353314
VAT-number: NL002017162B38
ING-bank IBAN: NL16INGB0004295377
ING-bank BIC/SWIFT: INGBNL2A
Workdays
Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 8.45 am to 1.45 pm
Tuesday & Thursday: 8.45 am to 4.45 pm.
Accessible via email and telephone (also voicemail).
Need to talk and to be listened
If you are feeling in distress and need to talk to someone, you can find a person at a helpline ready to listen to you.
The contents of the call are highly confidential and the caller has the right to remain anonymous.
The service is free of charge to the caller.
De Luisterlijn (the listen-line): telephone, e-mail, and online chat support service, contact 0900 0767 or online (website in Dutch).
Find a helpline a centre that offers emotional support in your own language via internet: https://www.ifotes.org/en/ifotes-members
Suicide prevention Netherlands: 0800 0113
Or for helplines from other countries (click here).
Professional code, right of complaint and visitation
Professional code
Daisy works via the NVPA professional code. This includes the ethical rules with regards to the professional conduct of all therapists affiliated with the NVPA. The professional code is based on integrity, respect, trust, safety, responsibility and expertise. Within the professional practice, acting in an ethically responsible manner means that the member, in all activities falling within his or her professional practice, respects the value and dignity of his client and his right to his own beliefs and/or religious beliefs and their way of life.
Right of complaint
As an NVPA therapist, Daisy adheres to the complaints procedure in accordance with the new Wkkgz legislation (Quality, Complaints and Disputes Care Act). SCAG, the Disputes Committee for the Complementary and Alternative Healthcare, takes care of the
complaints and disputes procedure. Daisy does everything she can to help her clients in a good and respectful way. If you are not satisfied with something, it is important to discuss this dissatisfaction with Daisy first. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding and this can be remedied if you let Daisy know what you are dissatisfied with or what you would like to have changed. Are you unable or unwilling to discuss the complaint with Daisy personally or are you unable to resolve it together with Daisy? Then you can use a free complaints officer via the professional association: www.nvpa.org. This will support you in formulating your complaint or dissatisfaction and in investigating solutions. We will look together with you at the possibilities of finding a hearing for your complaint. Your complaint will be handled within 6 weeks. Through the RBCZ register, Daisy is subject to disciplinary law for complementary care.
Visitation
During a visitation, the practice is visited and tested for quality requirements. The main goal is to initiate an improvement process, to increase the quality of the practice and to tighten it up where necessary. Visitation shows strengths and weaknesses of the practice. For NVPA members, a visitation every 5 years is mandatory. It is a testing instrument for guaranteeing the quality requirements as pursued by the NVPA. The practice was inspected in May 2019 and found to be in order.