Marieke Winkel
Trauma-informed therapist with practical focus
About Marieke
Marieke Winkel helps people facing trauma, grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression and the stress of life changes. She supports those struggling with relationships and family concerns, and people coping with chronic illness, abandonment or feelings of emptiness. Marieke works in English and Dutch and brings 11 years of clinical experience to her practice.
She adopts a straightforward, calm style in sessions. Conversations are led by the client's needs and aim to make difficult feelings easier to understand.
Background and approach
Marieke mixes talking therapy with practical tools so people can try different ways of coping between appointments. Her background includes work across healthcare and specialist services for survivors of abuse, plus roles in counselling management and training. That mix means she is familiar with both one-to-one therapy and the systems that support people in crisis.
Marieke is registered with BACP and NCPS, which are listed credentials in her professional record. In clinical work she draws on attachment-based ideas, psychodynamic thinking and mindfulness, and she also uses Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing for trauma-focused work. Sessions aim to build safety, reduce distressing memories or patterns, and strengthen everyday coping skills.
People who come to Marieke often want steady, practical help rather than quick fixes. She encourages small steps, realistic goals and clear options for moving forward. The pace is set by each person so they feel heard and can choose what to focus on next.
What Marieke works with
How Marieke works
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Listed by Marieke among the ways they work.
Listed by Marieke among the ways they work.
Listed by Marieke among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use online with a therapist
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when people feel unsafe in relationships or notice repeating hurtful dynamics. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It relies on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that works with distressing memories to reduce their emotional charge and help people process upsetting events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marieke will discuss options and help choose what fits the person's needs, goals and preferences. That plan can change as therapy progresses, and decisions are made together in session.
Online therapy makes those approaches accessible from different places. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and do longer EMDR sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for brief reflections, ongoing support between appointments or when writing helps to organise thoughts. Registered or accredited professionals offer these formats so people can pick what suits their routine and energy levels.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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- 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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English, Dutch
