Hi, I’m Mieke Vander Heyden
I’m commited to support your organization by focussing on the emotional well-being of your employees.
Build a thriving business, invest in the mental health of your employees & enhance strong relationships on the work floor.
Be the employer where your people love to jump out of their beds for!
Hi, I’m Mieke Vander Heyden
I’m commited to support your organization by focussing on the emotional well-being of your employees.
Build a thriving business, invest in the mental health of your employees & enhance strong relationships on the work floor.
Be the employer where your people love to jump out of their beds for!
As a company owner or an HR-employee, you care about your employees. You want the best for them and want your company to grow and flourish. You can be understanding but you also want everyone to pursue the set goals.
This can be challenging for your employees, as they get confronted daily with personal issues which influences their motivation, energy-level, or capacity to perform at their maximum at the work floor. It’s not always an easy balance.
Having an HR department is already a big step. However, research shows that often the HR employees have their hands full and lack time for individual guidance. Often the staff is not trained enough but mostly the employees don’t feel safe to open up fully to be vulnerable to their HR-colleague. However, trust is the crucial factor.
This is when someone like me comes into the game: I am a psychotherapist who emotionally supports and can offer coaching and practical tools to enhance well-being, motivation and focus on the work setting.
Psychotherapy & Coaching
Experience how customized personal support brings your employees 1000 times faster where they want to be
Workshops & Debriefs
Explore how guided group experiences boost focus, motivation & productivity
Team Building & Retreats
Retreat in a magical place, with a unique design of activities for renewed energy, inspiration, team spirit and strong connections
Psychotherapy & Coaching
Psychotherapy or coaching can help your employees navigate their personal or work related issues. Everybody faces difficult moments at a certain point in their lives, think about dealing with losses, relationship or family problems, stress, overwhelm or anxiety, newborns or sick children who prevent good night sleep, identity crisis, depression, perfectionism…
With the right professional support, these transitional crises can be turned into self-connection, stronger relationships, increased self-confidence, a new sense of purpose, and more.
In a session we focus on processing emotions, providing tools and creative solutions so any crisis becomes an opportunity for deeper self-knowledge, making conscious choices and agency over their lives and careers.
Workshops & Debriefs
Some issues are collective and can be focussed on in a group. Think about stress & burn-out, culture shock & integration if you work with expat-employees or send them out on missions, dealing with (witnessing) trauma when the nature of the job is high-risk or close to people with needs, anxiety & isolation in the ‘after-covid’ area, and more.
Workshops or debriefs focus on providing information & psycho-education, a safe space to share and process, pinpoint the roots of the issues that need to be dealt with, models & practice of effective communication, self-care & preventative tools at home and in the work space, and formulate further steps based on the needs.
Team Building & Retreats
Collaborations on the work floor are more efficient when the relationships among colleagues are based on mutual trust, shared experiences and a sense of being the same, with respect for the uniqueness of each. Team Building events enhance such a safe and productive working environment.
Retreats are the real treat and show that extra care for your employees. Giving them the opportunity to connect at a deeper level, boost their inspiration and motivation, continue learning and growing as a person and in their job, really creates magic and momentum in your company.
Let’s design something that they need to thrive and what makes them the happiest workers!
My approach
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Be it in individual or group setting, I customize my services to meet your needs.
For all my offers, I create a safe space so your employees can feel at ease. I support them with several practical and effective tools that bring results in the direction of the goals you have set for your team & company.
See me as a loving and direct partner, who will actively listen, give feedback and gently guide your employees, through active participation and out-of-the-box activities, to their inner wisdom, to unlock and activate their potential to thrive in their personal lives and professional careers.
In a nutshell, what can I support your employees with?
- Managing and preventing overwhelm, stress and burn-out
- Overcoming culture shock & cultural differences -especially Western-latino cultures
- How to deal with perfectionism, anxiety or other personal issues
- Peer intervision for professional helpers
- Getting that ambition and love for their job again which makes them climb mountains
As a HR-responsable, do you 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 debriefs, unique workshops & retreats to better support your employees.
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
Testimonials
1-on-1
“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,”
