Live as you are.
When the life you’ve built on the outside no longer matches how you feel on the inside, it is time to look at it plainly. We start exactly where you are. Honestly. Quietly.
No clinical checkboxes. No corporate optimization metrics. Just deep, analytical work to give you back a mind that is clear, grounded, and entirely your own.
A private space to strip away the expectations. To look at your reality with absolute clarity. And to rebuild your foundation.
How the work begins
You outline your situation in a few lines. We read it, and if the work can happen here, we call you. That first conversation is with the therapist you would see, and it settles two things: what you are facing, and whether we are the right fit.
How we work
We say what we see, plainly and without delay. You did not come to be agreed with. The first sessions bring relief where it is needed now. The work that follows looks at the patterns you built to cope, the ones that once protected you and now cost more than they give, and changes them. Sessions last fifty minutes, in a private room on the Sarphatistraat.
Who comes to us
Executives, founders and internationals living in Amsterdam. People with demanding lives who are used to solving problems on their own. Most arrive with burnout, or the sense of running on fumes while still performing; with anxiety that no longer stays in the background; with a loss, or a relationship under strain; or with a move, a new role, or a life that changed faster than they did. We also work with gay men, including the shame that can outlive coming out.
In English or French
Sessions are held in English or French, and you can move between the two. Some things are only accurate in your first language.
Discretion
Aurore Counseling is a private practice in Amsterdam, not contracted with Dutch health insurers. No GP referral is needed and nothing is sent to your insurer.
