Integrative Holistic    Psychotherapy

 

including Hypnotherapy and EMDR

Positive illness can be read as integrating the things that may seem only negative at first,

but ideally making  these events tools of growth and awareness

 

Healing is not a destination —

 

it is a return to coherence and connection within the matrix of mind, body, memory, and presence.

 

I work online and in my practice in Amsterdam.

Feel free to call WhatsApp worldwide to feel the click

+31648750093

jovannavriend@gmail.com

 

Together, we explore the terrain where old patterns have settled

Not to erase their meaning.

But to invite them into a new relationship with awareness and love.

 

If you’re curious how others experienced this work before you, you can read their words here.

 

In this integrative approach, we blend techniques that speak to different layers of experience —

 

cognitive clarity, somatic nervous-system processing, mindful presence, and heart-centered attunement.

 

Each method is offered with respect for your unique story, and with an eye toward liberation rather than correction.

 

Below are some of the forms this work can take, each contributing to your voice becoming stronger, your presence more grounded, and your life more freely lived. 🌿

 

Every human being              carries a unique story

Behind every pattern, every feeling, lies a deeper movement of consciousness —

a longing to awaken, to heal, and to return to harmony with the whole.

 

Integrative psychotherapy brings together different approaches into one living form of guidance:

personal, intuitive, and attuned to the wisdom

 

      already within you

 

We get to what is needed in a natural spontaneous way with the help of these methods:

 

 

RET – Rational Emotive Therapy

 

Clarity begins with insight. RET helps to explore beliefs and emotions, using common sense as a compass. From there, direction arises — an inner “yes” that makes the next step visible.

 

EMDR – Trauma Processing

EMDRMDR

A revised, more grounded and spiritual approach of EMDR.

MDR stands for:

Methodologically Deliberately Refining

 

In my work, I use EMDR within a broader, holistic and spiritually attuned therapeutic framework — where method meets meaning, and technique meets

 

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When an experience has been too overwhelming to fully carry, part of that energy remains stuck. EMDR supports the release of that energy, so that the past no longer colors the present. Memories remain, but they lose their heaviness.

 

Personality Parts Work & Regression – Inner Child Therapy

 

Through gentle trance or guided visualization, we journey inward to the layers where old patterns were formed. Through understanding, love, and reconnection, these separated parts can once again participate in the wholeness of who you are.

 

Heart Coherence – Breath, Rhythm, Balance

 

The heart is more than an organ — it is a center of frequency. Through breath, awareness, and visualization, we bring heart rhythm and brain activity into resonance. This increases resilience and calms the stress system, allowing you to live again from inner peace.

 

Mindfulness & Hypnosis

 

To be present in the now requires both softness and courage. Hypnosis helps you move beyond the noise; mindfulness helps you stay there. Together they form a doorway to clarity — a conscious presence in everyday life.

 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & NLP

 

Our thoughts create the pathways through which energy flows. By understanding behavior, beliefs, and language patterns, you discover new ways of acting and perceiving. Flexibility is freedom — the art of responding differently than before.

 

 

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The sessions are based on your inner atunement, here we get into contact with your inner knowing with the help of various interventions

 

   to follow

        your intuitive path

 

We get to what is needed in a natural spontaneous way with the help of these methods:

 

 

 

The Power of Integration

 

True healing does not arise from one technique, but from the meeting itself — between awareness and experience, between thought and feeling, between the old and the new.

 

Each session is attuned to the person sitting before me — with deep respect for the mystery each of us carries.

 

Feel free to call for more information, or simply to see whether there’s a natural connection.

You can also call early in the evening or during the weekend.

 

📞 06-48750093

✉️ jovannavriend@gmail.com

 

About my practice and underlying vision

 

✨Integrative Psychotherapy Amsterdam

 

explains how old patterns formed in childhood can shape present behaviour, and how techniques like hypnotherapy, regression, cognitive therapy and visualization can help “update” these under-the-surface programs so new energy emerges. 

 

in chaperer VI, in my thesis I talk about a fascinating experiment by Dr. Laskow, where healing intention or love-based focus was offered to cancer cells not to destroy them, but to appeal to their belonging as part of the whole — “a connection with the condition rather than separation.” 

 

Integrative Psychotherapy Amsterdam and online — A Path to Wholeness

In this practice we explore the deep interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit.

 

Many of the struggles we encounter — whether emotional pain, physical symptoms, or life-long patterns —

are rooted in early experiences and unconscious programmes that feel familiar yet no longer serve us. Through a gentle combination of hypnotherapy, cognitive approaches and somatic exploration, we cultivate awareness and invite transformation at all levels of experience. 

 

At the heart of this work is the understanding that healing arises when we come into deep relationship with what we are resisting.

 

Not as a battle to be won, but as an opportunity for integration and love to reshape our lived experience. In my thesis Het doen ontwaken van het zelfgenezend vermogen I explore how belonging and resonance —

even at the cellular level — support healing processes. One example comes from the work of Dr. Leonard Laskow, who suggested that truly acknowledging the condition rather than trying to obliterate it can shift its expression. This is a vantage point where science and spirit meet: recognising that every part of us participates in the dance of transformation. 

 

Integration isn’t just about symptom relief — it’s about discovering new coherence between what we know, what we feel, and what we are. Here, every story of challenge holds an invitation  and self-healing potential.

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