New Group – Personal Development
- Would you like to connect more with your body and physical sensations within a small, safe group?
- Do you want to better recognize your physical signals so that you can activate or calm your nervous system as needed?
- Would you like to experience joy in connecting with yourself and others?
- Do you want to enjoy self-expression and express your emotional world through dance?
Then this group is for you!
Basic themes:
safety and tension regulation, grounding, attuning to bodily needs, contact with self and others, self-expression.
Other potential themes: boundaries, taking up space, translating feelings into movement
The benefit of a group is that you can connect with different people and get new examples of self-expression. Sometimes we work together and sometimes alone. There is space for self-reflection during the session through writing, drawing, and embodying feelings.
Where:
Cruquius Danshuis, Bottelarijstraat 289, 1019 VC, Amsterdam
When:
Tuesdays 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Starts as soon as there are enough registrations – minimum 4, maximum 6)
Duration: 10 weeks
Intake procedure:
30-minute online intake (€50) and filling out an intake form. During the intake, we will work out whether the group is a good match for your needs.
Costs:
Intake €50
10-week course €650 (or €700 in two installments)
Will be conducted in English or Dutch depending on participants’ preferences.
Schedule:
Arrival 10:00 AM
10:00 – 10:25 AM: arrive, ground, and warm up
10:25 – 10:55 AM: check-in, tune-in to each other, theme?
10:55 – 11:05 AM: short break
11:05 – 11:45 AM: develop the theme
11:45 – 12:00 PM: cool down, insights, homework?
Individual sessions prices 2026
Orientation (telephone/zoom) – 15 minutes, free
Trial session – 60 minutes, €70.00
Intake session – 90 minutes, €100.00
Dance movement therapy – 60 minutes, €100.00 / 90 minutes €145.00
VAT exemption (BTW vrijgesteld)
*It is a legal requirement for therapy to show your passport (or a copy) or identity card before beginning treatment.
*To cancel an appointment, please give at least 24 hours notice. A no-show entails full payment.
Location:
I use a lovely spacious dance studio in Amsterdam Oost –
Cruquis danshuis
Bottelarijstraat 289
1019 VC, Amsterdam
Work days:
Tuesdays 9.00 – 17.30
Thursdays 9.00 – 17.30
*There is no waiting list, and you do not need a reference from your doctor.
General Information:
Complaints Procedure
Terms and Privacy
Links and additional information
Health insurance cover
Dance movement therapy is covered by ‘aanvullende verzekeringen’ (additional insurance). This means you do not need a referral from your doctor and you do not need to pay any costs at your own risk – ‘eigen risico’. In the Netherlands, health insurance can be changed once a year in December.
Please check the zorgwijzer to see if your health insurance company gives compensation for ‘alternatieve zorg / complementaire zorg’.
http://www.zorgwijzer.nl/vergoeding/vaktherapie
Dance therapy falls under the category of ‘vaktherapie’.
I am a member of the NVDAT (Nederlandse Vereniging voor danstherapie) which is affiliated with Vaktherapie Nederland.
So it is important that the health insurance company compensates practitioners who are members of Vaktherapie Nederland (not NFG). Please ask me if you need help with this.
Click here Vaktherapie Nederland (FVB) if you would like to find out more information about dance movement therapy or the possibilities for compensation if you are on a low income.
If you are already having a form of verbal therapy, it may be possible for you to receive 20% of the treatment in the form of ‘vaktherapie’, in this case dance therapy. Check with your ‘hoofdbehandelaar’ to see if this construction would be possible.