Hi, I’m Mieke Vander Heyden
I’m commited to helping you find your inner wisdom,
through healing, clarity & self-connection
to
create the life you desire!
Hi, I’m Mieke Vander Heyden
I’m commited to helping you find your inner wisdom,
through healing, clarity & self-connection
to
create the life you desire!
I support you to manage your life-challenges, through facilitating the way to your inner wisdom, the key to inner & outer freedom.
Now you can learn how to cultivate inner peace and enjoy your life fully!
Do you feel you don’t fit into a box (anymore), ready to break out and shape a unique meaningful life?
Psychotherapy
Experience how customized personal support brings you 1000 times faster where you want to be
Workshops
Explore how guided group experiences boost your inner process
Retreats
Retreat in a magical place, with a unique design of activities for deep and lasting transformation
Psychotherapy & Coaching
Discover and heal which interior patterns are holding you back to live your best version. Develop emotional intelligence through practical, effective tools to flow through life. Dream and explore how your ideal life looks like. Step into your power so nothing holds you back to finally shape it!
Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga, an immunity boost for your mental health, as it’s a direct way to open your heart. I offer a selection of active exercises to easily provoke laughter and connect with the group. An extremely fun and relaxing experience that makes you smile even weeks after!
New ‘YOU’ Retreat
10 days in a Costa Rican piece of paradise. Time for relaxation, deep healing work to shed layers, connection with nature, yourself and others, rituals and celebration. You leave transformed and with your personal action plan for the next year to come. Ready for the New ‘YOU’ in 2023?
My approach
Be it in individual or group setting, I customize my services to meet your needs.
Firstly, I create a safe space for you to feel at ease. I support you with several practical and effective tools that bring you results in the direction of the goals you have set for your process.
See me as a loving and direct partner, who will actively listen, give feedback and gently guide you to your inner wisdom, to unlock and activate your potential to thrive in your personal life project.
What can I offer?
I am specialized in working with people who don’t fit into the box (anymore), people who seek for more in life or those with an alternative lifestyle.
Sounds familiar?
I support you to manage the challenges you encounter, through facilitating the way to your inner wisdom,
the key to your inner & outer freedom. This allows you to cultivate inner peace and enjoy life fully.
Want to learn what I do?
I am also driven to inspire and train anyone to do the same. I teach you creative simple and effective tools.
I support you in integrating these new methodologies into your set of skills, so you are ready to organize and facilitate your own unique workshops & retreats.
My Background
Credentials
At my early 20s and 30s, you could find me studying all the time. I have completed a Masters Degree of Social & Cultural Sciences (Culturele & Sociale Agogiek, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium), a 4-year Integrative Psychotherapy study (Interactionele Vormgeving, Educatieve Academie, Antwerp, Belgium). Afterwards I specialized in Psychodrama (Centrum voor Psychodrama & Psychotherapie, Belgium), Dance & Movement Therapy (Balans VSPW, Gent, Belgium), Creative Art methodologies (Interactie Academie, Antwerp, Belgium), Family Constellations (Educatieve Academie, Antwerp, Belgium) Ritual Trance Dance (Trance Dance International, Portugal) & Laughter Yoga (Lach Academie, Belgium), Couples Counseling (WTCI, England), Multipassionate Coaching (Multipassionate Coaching Academy, Belgium).
I am a licensed psychotherapist, associated with the V.V.T.I.V. (the Dutch Federation of Integrative Psychotherapists). V.V.T.I.V. is member of the E.A.P. (European Association of Psychotherapists) and the B.V.P. (Belgian Association of Psychotherapists).
To guarantee quality for the clients I work with, and continue developing myself as a psychotherapist, I take individual supervising sessions with a certified supervisor.
Work experience
I have worked mainly in the social, educational & cultural sector, with several target groups from all ages (pregnant & delinquent teenagers, young adults with cancer, adults in mental health, homeless elderly) through different cultures (Belgium, Greece, Australia & Latin-America), in several languages (Dutch, French, English & Spanish), in different roles (social assistant, psychotherapist, teacher, trainer, volunteer, coordinator, entrepreneur).
These are the companies I have worked for: CBE Halle, GLTT-CVO Halle, CAW Mozaiek Brussels, Centrum voor Levens & Gezinsvragen Brussels, Minor Ndako Brussels, Kom Op Tegen Kanker Brussels, De Bleekweide VZW Gent, several Private Psychotherapy Practices in Belgium, EDRA Greece, Citizenne Brussels, Missing You Leuven, and many more as a volunteer or external consultant.
Extra-curriculum activities
Throughout my life, you can often find me participating in smaller trainings, workshops, retreats or volunteering projects related to creativity and self-development. Since 2016 I am slow-traveling following my intuition and explore what comes my way. I love to get inspired and learn new things, now for instance I am exploring the tango-world.
Something personal
Do you want to find out if we are a good match?
Testimonials
“I am so grateful that Mieke was there for me in times where I was going through a lot of emotional turmoil.
There is something very valuable in the way Mieke listens. I feel that she is really able to hold space for me. When I talk to her, I feel like I get syntonized again. Afterwards I feel clarity.”
Creative facilitator training
“What I appreciate most about the training is the loving and safe space Mieke is creating. It feels wonderful to open up in the role of the client and making first steps in the role of the therapist which are both parts of the training.
The effectiveness of her art therapy methods is impressive.
Mieke is giving clear instructions on how an art therapist works while allowing an individual way to work as a facilitator.
A whole new world opened up for me personally and professionally.
Thank you, beautiful Mieke!
Communication workshop
“This workshop of Non Violent Communication was perfect timing for me as I was dealing with a triggering situation that had just happened. Mieke explained the theory and we all got to practice the steps. She guided me perfectly through my triggers and helped me form clear communication around my emotions, needs and requests. Since then the technique has come in very handy.
Thanks Mieke, super grateful!”
New ‘YOU’ Retreat
“You are a divine channel for renewal, healing, and light. Your inner quality of tranquility & playfulness is an infinite blessing to us all. I will continue to hear your lovely voice as a guide, echoing in my being. Love,”
