Eva van Wijngaarden, Coach voor Kinderen, Pubers en Ouders

About Eva van Wijngaarden, Coach voor Kinderen, Pubers en Ouders

Eva van Wijngaarden is a coach for children, teenagers and parents in Amstelveen. She offers coaching and facilitated peer consultation.

Coaching

The coaching is solution-focused and tailored to each person. Conversations alternate with exercises and playful activities; Eva involves parents or the whole family where needed.

• Coaching for children
• Coaching for teenagers
• Coaching for parents

Coaching for children

Children can explore with Eva what is not going so well, what works for them and what they need. She uses conversations and materials such as drawings, cuddly toys and wooden figures.

• feeling tense or overstimulated
• often feeling angry or sad
• having difficulty falling asleep
• often having headaches and stomach aches
• feeling insecure or different
• being afraid of disappointing someone
• wanting to be able to do everything very well
• being sensitive to what others think of them

Coaching for teenagers

In conversations and exercises, teenagers and young people look at what they are struggling with, who they are and want to be, and what they need. Eva says she treats what they tell her confidentially.

• choices and the future
• stress and insecurity
• difficult events
• sexuality and gender

Coaching for parents

Eva gives parents time and space to reflect on their role, beliefs and relationship with their child or teenager. The interventions are tailored to the parent.

• family constellation
• parts work
• inner child work
• imagery
• voice dialogues

Facilitated peer consultation

Eva facilitates peer consultation groups for coaches, helping them build safety within the group and discuss issues from their practice. She also offers individual support in the form of coaching or learning therapy.

• group peer consultation
• individual support
• coaching
• learning therapy

About Eva

Eva completed a three-year counsellor and coach training programme in 2011 and trained as a child and teenager coach in 2021.

Practical information

The practice is based on Bovenkerkerweg in Amstelveen. Eva van Wijngaarden offers a free intake and hourly sessions.

• Interim and final evaluations with parents are included in coaching or can be provided as needed.