About Fleur de Fouw

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 and trained at Vrije Academie 't Pad. There I completed the full Psychosocial Art programme: first the Psychosocial Art Coach certificate (2025), then graduating as a Psychosocial Art Therapist (2026). ACT is the framework used in every year of that programme. The programme is recognised by Vereniging Tekentaal, CGZ and VBAG, and accredited by KTNO.

I did this not only for myself, but also to guide others who may feel just as lost as I once did.

I now work as a psychosocial art therapist, specialising in ACT, 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
Psychosocial Art Therapist, specialising in ACT · ACT en Verbeeld