For many years I had a career that looked good from the outside. Diplomas, meaningful work, a clear role. But something was gnawing at me from within.

I was doing what I was supposed to do, not what I wanted to do. And realising that brought grief — a kind of mourning for the years in which I had lost myself a little.

Discovering ACT

Then ACT came into my life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy taught me not to fight harder against what I felt, but to look at it differently. With a little more distance, a little more curiosity. Not to make the difficult feelings disappear, but to let them have less control. Slowly, a different relationship with myself began to emerge — and with what I truly valued.

In that process I rediscovered what had always been there: my love for creativity, for feeling, for making.

A new path

That discovery led me down a new path. I immersed myself in ACT and art therapy — not only for myself, but also to guide others who may feel just as lost as I once did.

I now work as an ACT and art therapist with people who struggle with similar questions. In our sessions we work with images that you create yourself. What you make tells something — about patterns, about what lives in your unconscious, about what you perhaps could not yet put into words.

I guide you with care and attention, at your own pace.

Fleur de Fouw — ACT and art therapist, Practice ACT en Verbeeld