About Sandra Van Bergen
Born in the Netherlands and now calling Australia her home. Sandra is an instigator of transformation, wisdom keeper, story teller and singer. She is dreaming up new structures and launches them into the world through the many projects she is in. Laying the foundation and paving the way for future generations to thrive, is her drive in life.
With her extensive experience in psychology, self-empowerment, trauma therapy and ancient ways of healing, she guides others into self-empowerment. Empowering people is Sandra’s nature. Sharing and developing tools to educate and empower others, has her daily focus.
Her drive in life is to empower others, by teaching her clients innovative and simple yet extremely effective solution focused exercises, so they get the tools to empower themselves. Making herself redundant as guide as quick as she can, is her goal when people come to her for advice.
Sandra’s work background
Sandra is a Self-Empowerment Consultant, Mentor and trainer, with 19+ years of extensive international experience in assessment and treatment of mild, moderate and complex clinical issues. Providing therapy, counselling, training and workshops for individuals and groups of all ages, across telehealth, private practice, inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings and education.
Extensively experienced in assessment and treatment of complex trauma, anxiety, stress, panic, phobia, mood and eating disorders, ADHD, chronic pain, perinatal and women’s mental health, grief and loss, life stage adjustments, insomnia, burnout and career choices, parenting and relationship problems, and generational family dysfunction.
With her experience as Clinical Lead of a specialized therapy department and trauma therapist (EMDR) and leading a multidisciplinary therapy team, one of her super powers is to create engaging learning environments and programs as well as co-creating effective and supportive groups.
Peak Performance and coaching Senior Executives, expats and migrants through personal and business life improvement and transitions, is part of her expertise. Passionate about self-empowerment, she is teaching clients tools to empower themselves.
Inspired by Indigenous cultures and traditional healing practices from all over the world and having created new recovery models for (Generational) trauma, she has assisted multiple managers and practitioners with designing and providing workshops on cultural and trauma informed care.
Having focused many years of her career on trauma recovery, she is now a mentor, innovative thought leader and consultant focusing on self-empowerment and trauma prevention. Combining theory and practical ways of trauma recovery, mental health and self-empowerment.
As writer, story teller and singer, Sandra is weaving unlimited potential and imagination into the daily life of kids, teenagers and adults.
Key Expertise and Achievements
KEY EXPERTISE:
● Psychology ● EMDR ● Complex Trauma Therapy ● NLP Master Practitioner ● Solution Focused and Systemic Approach ● DBT, ACT, CBT, MI, IPT, SFT ● Mindfulness-based therapy techniques ● Training ● Consultancy ● Cultural & Trauma Informed Care ● Peak Performance and Senior Executive Coaching
ACHIEVEMENTS:
● As Clinical Lead, Clinical Supervisor and Specialized Trauma Therapist, led 13 member therapeutic team and treated clients with complex trauma, psychological and behavioral problems, psychiatric disorders, disabilities, parenting and relationship problems and generational family dysfunction.
● Created, upgraded and delivered multiple innovative therapy, counselling, training programs and workshops on Self-Empowerment, Trauma Recovery and Prevention, and Youth Leadership.
● Above average retention rates, in combination with low cancellation and rescheduling ratios, indicate the effectiveness of her services.
● Guided many people to dissolve limitations with easy to apply exercises.
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