Gert Klabbers Praktijk Haptotherapie

About Gert Klabbers Praktijk Haptotherapie

Gert Klabbers Praktijk Haptotherapie is a haptherapy practice in Apeldoorn. The practice offers haptherapy, relationship therapy and haptonomic pregnancy guidance.

Haptherapy

Haptherapy helps clients recognise bodily sensations and feelings and make sense of them. The guidance combines conversations, body-focused experiential exercises and affective, contact-focused touch.

• Attention to feeling, thinking and doing
• Exploring experiences in the body and in contact with others
• Support with boundaries, contact and personal choices

When to seek haptherapy

The practice offers support with personal, relationship, physical and psychological concerns. Topics may also include grief and loss, trauma, and experiences involving crossed boundaries or sexuality.

• Relationship problems and difficulties in connecting with others
• Personal development
• Stress, tension and burnout symptoms
• Anxiety symptoms and fear of childbirth
• Depressive symptoms
• Persistent physical complaints
• Hyperventilation
• Reduced or disturbed ability to feel
• Premenstrual symptoms and menopausal symptoms
• Return-to-work support
• Pelvic problems

Pregnancy guidance

Haptonomic pregnancy guidance involves both parents in connecting with their baby and preparing for the birth. It focuses on connection, supporting each other, and coping with contractions and pain.

• Connecting with the baby through touch, rocking and inviting movement
• Birth preparation
• Guidance in cases of miscarriage, disability, premature birth or death
• Support with the path towards pregnancy, relationships and parenthood

Practice owner

Gert A. Klabbers PhD is registered with Register Haptotherapie Nederland. He specialises in treating fear of childbirth.

• Works closely with midwives, gynaecologists and psychologists