What kind of mental health problems can we treat?
Adults can contact us for a wide range of mental health problems. When you’re not sure what you’re struggling with, we can help you formulate the problem. We are experienced in the following psychological problems:
- Mood swings
- Anxiety, including phobias
- Sleep problems
- Compulsions and obsessions
- Eating disorders
- Problems in emotional life
- Work and study problems
- Difficulty in making contact
- Identity issues
- Problems after divorce
- Unresolved grief
- Traumatic experiences
- Sexual problems
- Problems caused by incest
- Personality issues
- Problems in assertiveness
- Problems with your stage of life
- Second-generational war problems
As a mental health institution, we also have experience with health problems regarding autism, ADHD and ADD.
Unexplained symptoms
We are experienced in the treatment of physical symptoms for which no physical cause can be found. Examples of these health problems are:
- Nervousness /restlessness
- Hyperventilation
- Headache or back pain
- Stress
- Upset stomach
- Asthma or bronchitis
- Fatigue
- Other psychosomatic problems
Our psychologists can also help with problems arising in families and relationships, such as divorce, partner and relationship issues, psychological reactions to childlessness, and detachment problems.
Exclusion Criteria
We consciously choose not to provide care to clients:
- Who require very intensive personal guidance that exceeds the available regular support;
- Who do not accept our help;
- Who discriminate against other clients or staff at an intolerable level;
- Who are completely disoriented in time, place, and person;
- Who display severe restlessness and urge to move, significant loss of decorum, or severe verbal and non-verbal aggression—behavior that cannot be influenced by frequent positive attention;
- Who have very intensive physical care needs;
- Who are currently experiencing severe (soft) drug and/or alcohol addiction;
- Who have sensory impairments such as being deaf or deafblind;
- Who engage in sexually inappropriate behavior that poses a safety risk to the group;
- For whom involuntary care is required under the Dutch Wet zorg en dwang (Wzd);
- Who suffer from severe psychiatric problems that, for example, require closed admission;
- Who have no future perspective on independent living;
- Who face serious threats from their network;
- Who pose a danger to the clients in our care;
- Who have a form of borderline personality disorder for which we lack the expertise to effectively manage specific presentations of the disorder.
