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Open to your bodily wisdom. Connect to the wisdom of your body, your senses, sensations, open your body safely to feel what is hidden, to transform pain into beauty, love wounded patterns in to wise pointers, and trust yourself into freedom beyond the symptom, label or limitation.
Deepen relationship, to self, other, love, and life. If you are longing for a deeper connection to life, in your relationship(s), our sessions together will help you restore, revitalize, and deepen you so you feel met and inspired to live, love and relate from fullness.
Empower yourself with daily routine. Learn and apply holistic practices that soften you to your intrinsic nature, from the wisdom of Ayurveda, yoga and tantric lineages to flourish and radiate in the sacred of mundane daily life. .

Ways to work together

A gentle, body-centred space to meet yourself with curiosity, compassion, and honesty, allowing what has been held beneath the surface to be felt, understood, and integrated. Through the wisdom of the body, we make room for emotions, soften old patterns, and cultivate a deeper sense of presence, wholeness, and belonging within yourself.
Explore the art of relating — to yourself, to others, and to the love, intimacy, and connection you long for. Together, we bring loving attention to the patterns that shape your relationships, opening new possibilities for deeper intimacy, greater self-trust, and a more wholehearted way of opening to love and life.
An integrative approach to wellbeing that weaves together the wisdom of Ayurveda, yoga, and tantra to nurture harmony between body, mind, and spirit. Together, we explore how ancient wisdom and embodied practices can bring you into deeper alignment with your natural rhythms, inner knowing, and the way you wish to live.

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Praise

"Tessa has a gift in guiding transformatinal processes. She brings depth through her reflections and questions, and guided me with great sensitivity to my inner feelings"
- Maria L., Canada

"Her mentorship has shifted the way I preceive the world around me completely and how I care for my body with awareness to my sensatins and emotions despite my condition "
- Emily,the UK

"Dear Tessa, thank you for your guidance and inviting me to look so deep at my most vulnerable inner workings with such love, presence, neutrality, encouragement and humor. I never felt seen in these parts of my life"
- Lana, The Netherlands

"In my coaching sessions with Tessa I have felt so safe, welcomed and seen. Tessa has a gentle yet precise way of leading that allows me to go beyond what I already know, deeper into my growing edges, exactly the places I need to be. She has helped me move through unresolved grief, repair after conflict, ask for what I need and explore different aspects of my sexuality more fully. I have felt such permission to be who I am, so encouraged and held in our space together. Her sensitivity, clarity and exquisite sense of attunement have invited me to explore my emotions and sexuality in a deep and also fun and pleasurable way. Thank you Tessa!"
-- Danielle S. I - Israel/Costa Rica

Inquiries, Illuminated

Depending on whether our work is more oriented on psychotherapy or mentorship, each session is designed and attuned to where you are, and your unique needs and capacity. Tessa is devoted to serving your deepest expansion, guided by what is most alive for you in the moment. A session may included some of the following tools:

Embodiment Practices: (gentle) movement, breathing exercizes, vocal exercises, and somatic practices intended to inquire into your body, unfurl stored habitual patterns, , and connect you with very own unique body in a safe and integrative way.
Transformative Reflection: Personalized guidance to support you in your fullness in all aspects of life, with a primary focus on creating meaning, deeper insight, and awareness of (relational) patterns, on loving more fully, on sexuality, spiritual practice, creative and professional aspirations, and self-leadership.
Support for daily living: practices curated uniquely to your daily life, to orient more towards presence, beauty, love, wholesomeness and flourishing, inspired by ancient wisdom traditions.

What can I expect in session together?

Tessa has worked extensively on themes such as bodily challenge, health, heartbreak, loos and grief, and longing. Exploring how to ignite passion, creativity, receptivity, living wholesomely, opening to love wholeheartedly, unwinding relational trauma and patterning, livin a life of rest, rejuventation, resilience and resourcefulness, and creating meaning of past experiences, learning to see beauty in challenge and pain, giving your unique gifts in life and being seen in your talents, service and contribution to the world, staying soft in a hard world, devoting to daily practice to anchor and root the self, celebrating your aliveness beyond limitations.

What are topics you specialize in?

You can find all Tessa’s (academic) study and training, as well as her lived experiences that shape her work, on the About page.

What grounds your expertise?

What is the difference between mentorship, coaching, and embodied psychotherapy and what is the difference?

The difference lies in the nature of your inquiry, and the sessions are curated to whichever orientation suits your questions and desires most. In our intake, we will align your inquiry so that the sessions are fully curated to your need.

These three orientations are Tessa’s specializations, that ultimately are coming forth from different paths of study and experience, integrated to serve clients holistically.

For Dutch clients, there may also be an insurance incentive to assign the sessions to one of these forms of guidance, specifically psychotherapy or counseling.