About Marieke
Marieke Winkel helps people struggling with trauma, anxiety, grief and low self-esteem. She works with adults facing depression, stress, relationship difficulties and major life changes. Marieke brings a calm, practical manner to sessions and focuses on both body and mind during therapy.
Her practice draws on somatic approaches that notice how the body holds tension and memory. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to build safety and clarity.
Background and approach
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, often called EMDR, is among the tools she may use for trauma-related distress. Marieke has 11 years of experience in mental health settings. She has worked in clinical roles, specialist services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, and in independent practice.
That background shapes the way she attends to safety, pacing and recovery. Her credentials include registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society - NCPS. She practises from the United Kingdom and sees people in English and Dutch.
Sessions are offered in several formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Therapy is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Marieke uses straightforward conversation and body-aware techniques to help people make clearer choices and feel steadier.
How somatic and trauma-informed approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to physical sensations and patterns in the body that relate to stress and trauma. Online sessions can include gentle guidance to notice breath, posture and tension so these sensations can be named and eased. Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feeling and behaviour and helps people build safer ways of relating and regulating their emotions.EMDR uses guided eye movements or bilateral stimulation to support processing of traumatic memories and distressing images. In an online setting this is adapted into paced exercises and careful preparation so people feel able to notice what comes up. The therapist will discuss which methods feel most helpful and make decisions together based on needs, goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives and for those who prefer to meet from home. Video calls allow face-to-face contact, phone sessions suit those who need less visual input, and live chat or text messaging give ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and location while still working through trauma, anxiety or grief.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Dutch