Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & Personal Data Protection

SM Training & Counseling keeps, processes and protects your personal data in accordance with the EU regulations (GDPR).

For proper treatment, it is necessary that I, as your treating therapist, create a file. This is also legally established in the Health Treatment Agreement Act (WGBO). Your file contains limited personal data you have provided and notes about your treatment. We ask and use your personal data to facilitate the communication and our collaboration. If for the purposes of your treatment additional personal data is needed this will only be done with your explicit permission.

We do our best to guarantee your privacy. This means, among other things, that we:

– handle your personal and medical data with care,
– ensure that unauthorized persons do not have access to your data.

We have a legal obligation of confidentiality (professional secrecy).

The data from your personal file can also be used for the following purposes, after your explicit written permission:

• To inform other healthcare providers, for example when therapy has been completed or when a referral is made to another practitioner. This only happens with your explicit permission.
• For observation use during my absence.
• or for anonymized use during peer review.
• A small part of the data from your file is used for financial administration, so that I or my administrator can draw up an invoice.

If I want to use your data for another reason, I will first inform you and explicitly ask for your permission. This data in the client file will be kept for 20 years as required by the law on treatment agreements.

Your data on invoice

The care invoice you receive contains the information requested by the health insurer, so that you can declare this invoice to your health insurer:
• your name, address and place of residence
• your date of birth
• the date of the treatment
• a brief description of the treatment
• performance code: 24504 – Psychosocial therapy treatment
• the costs of the consultation

SM Training & Counseling does not sell data

We do not sell personal information to third parties. We only share strictly limited information with parties that are engaged to facilitate and technically support our service. SM Training & Counseling and third parties, who provide technical support, are legally obliged to respect the confidentiality of all data in by agreements in accordance with the EU law.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored locally by a browser. SM Training & Counseling uses cookies to recognize users on their next visit and to provide targeted advertising. The website places functional and marketing cookies from Google (read more here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites), LinkedIn and META (formerly Facebook).

The information that Google, LinkedIN and META collect is anonymized as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by META, Google and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. META, Google and LinkedIn adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal data. The anonymized data is used, among other things, to show visitors to this website targeted advertisements on various (social) media.

Right to inspect and correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. See our contact page for this. To prevent abuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately. When it concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser.

Enabling and disabling cookies and removing them

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Online Therapy

Online Therapy

Are you shy? Do you feel safer and more comfortable in your own space? Do you suffer from panic attacks or social phobia? Or do you just simply not have enough time? Maybe Online Therapy/Online Counseling is an option for you to start getting help.

Groups and workshops

Group work

Do you sometimes notice yourself changing when in groups, meetings, big companies? What effect does a group have on you? What place and what role do you tend to take? Groups are a place for an experiment. A place to learn and understand your patterns of insecurities, compulsion, resistance, and blocks. Come to learn.

Thematic seminars

Workshops and seminars offer similar learning spaces, but they’re bigger, more intense, and more focused. Come to participate in workshops and seminars.

Systemic Constellation

Some of our hang-ups we can easily understand, but we still get stuck there. They resist our willful change. It might seem that these have nothing to do with our past or our origins. Well, do they? Come and explore how Systemic constellation can enhance your learning and therapeutic progress.

Workplace challenges

Personal growth

Struggles are a part of life – annoying, unnerving, and frustrating. Yet they also provide opportunities for us to grow if you focus on the right target, you can learn and thrive. Come to explore your challenge.

Leadership development

You might have a higher position in management, manage teams, oversee big budgets, and are vested with power and responsibilities. Yet you might need guidance and support more than those who work under you. Why? Come to expand your leaderships skills.

Trauma recovery

Trauma and its effects

Maybe you thought you were over your traumatic experiences, but now, all of a sudden, it’s dominating your life again. Maybe you feel it catches up with you in your relationships. Or memories, you wish you’d have forgotten, start to flash back into your mind. Come to heal.

Trauma – Addictive behavior

Every time you try to stop, you fail. This makes you feel even worse. You feel like a failure. Like you are a mess… and then relapse again. Why not take another path. Come to understand your addiction and discover its hidden story. You need to understand yourself and maybe discover parts of yourself, forgotten or suppressed…

Intimacy and boundaries

Sometimes you realize that you get involved easily in others’ lives. Sometimes you grapple with feelings of guilt, uncertainty, embarrassment, or anxiety, which you can’t explain. Sometimes you don’t know what you feel or want. … The patterns might have developed as a response to the earliest pain in our lives.

When it comes to relationships, everybody longs for a deep connection. We long for intimacy with somebody. But often some of us avoid these relationships or connections altogether or sabotage them. We may well long for intimacy, yet we may find it difficult to connect and commit. Why?

Trauma, self-worth and empowerment

Perhaps you struggle with your self-worth and self-confidence because you suffered from a traumatic experience in the past. Now you want to feel empowered. How?

Trauma, burnout and stress

Traumatic experiences in the past can compromise our boundaries and make us vulnerable… Our previously vibrant lifestyle or professional career can suddenly be disrupted. You feel drained, physically exhausted, and frustrated.  How can you recover and become more resilient?

Trauma, illness and malaise

Traumatic experiences in the past can compromise our boundaries…  it may make us more prone to react to changes in our body with anxiety, distress, and fear. This makes us more susceptible to illness. What can you do?

Couples Therapy

Forging mutual understanding and commitment

Is there constant bickering or misunderstanding in your relationship? You might be tired of it. You long for ease, intimacy and connection between the two of you. Come to explore how you can find each other again and restore your loving bond. Come to reconnect.

Intimacy and connection

Have you been drifting apart from your partner recently? Maybe you feel it’s difficult to reach him/her and you feel completely closed off from each other. Or maybe you feel anxious, uneasy, suffocated, frustrated, or confused when together. What can you  do to restore intimate connection and to make your bond more satisfying and meaningful? Come to explore.

Sexuality and Fulfillment

You might be in a long-term relationship, but you’re missing the passion and romance you once had. Or you may currently have a vibrant sex life with your partner, yet you feel like you are disconnected. It is confusing. What can you do? Come to rekindle fire and affection.

Individual Therapy

Hacking Living abroad

When you emigrate, you undergo a lot of changes. It is natural to feel disoriented, lonely, overwhelmed, or anxious. You might even feel like you are on a constant rollercoaster. Or you might feel lost… Come and find out what to do.

Navigating grief and loss

Sometimes you do not know you are grieving unless someone close passes away. You might feel nothing in life makes sense anymore. You feel like you lost yourself. Come to heal.

Persevering through illness and malaise

We all take our physical health for granted… until we get ill. A diagnosis or unexplained symptoms suddenly make you feel damaged. It is overwhelming. It dominates your life. Come to learn to grow free and live a full life.

Soothing burnout and managing stress

You previously led a vibrant lifestyle with lots going on. But suddenly, you feel drained, physically exhausted, and with feelings of confusion, frustration, or dissatisfaction. Come and find out what it means, how to learn from it, and how to recharge?

Reconstructing self-worth after trauma

You might feel it’s difficult to talk about money. Or you work so hard, yet feel underpaid or dissatisfied. Or maybe you overspend/struggle to save, and make ends meet. Money is a mirror. It might reveal that our self-worth once got compromised… Come to reconstruct your self worth and learn to empower yourself.

Addiction - Creating freedom from addictive behavior

Addiction can take many forms (food, smoking, alcohol, gambling, gaming, computer, drugs, sex, etc.). You find yourself in its grip. It seems to take over your life. It feels bigger than you. Come to find out how to let go.

Intimacy and Boundaries

You struggle in friendships and romance. Something goes wrong, but you can’t put your finger on it. Sometimes you feel that people constantly let you down. You end up fighting, resenting or just giving up. … Come to understand your patterns and learn to strengthen your boundaries and cultivate healthy intimate connections.

Sexuality and Intimacy issues

Sexuality and intimacy enhance our relationships, yet they are often covered in shade, hidden, uneasy. This can be confusing.  Sometimes you realize you have too many ‘intimate’ relations. Or you have a long-term bond, but passion all but disappeared…  Sexuality has a powerful pull. It can fulfil but can lead us astray – to secret affair or an addiction. Sexuality defines who we are.  Or you might realize that you have always felt different. Come to unpack and explore how to grow and build healthier, more authentic and fulfilling bonds.