Saskia Nijstad

Saskia Nijstad specializes in providing psychosocial support for mentally healthy individuals seeking to maintain, refine, or improve their quality of life.

She offers an experiential approach and specialized knowledge as a contextual counselor in dealing with anxiety, grief, and loss, relationship issues, depression, and stress.

Saskia supports parents in navigating the challenges of raising children by providing tools to explore, influence, and change their own feelings and behaviors as well as those of their children within the family system.

She focuses on understanding the interaction between parents and between parents and children, aiming to clarify their contributions within the family dynamic.

Using tools like duplo figures and other materials, Saskia helps individuals visualize their stories on the table, making their inner dialogue visible to both themselves and the therapist.

Her specialties include listening, empathy, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, analysis, and written communication.

Saskia Nijstad has pursued various educational endeavors including studies in contextual therapy, dealing with loss, contextual counseling, psychotraumatology, pedagogy, and art history at reputable institutions in Amsterdam, Heeze, Utrecht, and Groningen.

She has held roles as a Praktijk Ondersteuner Huisarts-GGZ at Huisartsenpraktijk De Grote Rivieren, as well as positions as a psychosocial therapist, contextual counselor, pedagogue, opvoedcoach, and pedagogical advisor at different organizations.