There is no faster way to heal, than knowing that all feelings are safe to be felt. Therapy offers this.
What I Offer:
Individual Therapy
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- Personalised: Unique therapy approach & treatment plan tailored for your needs and therapy goals – therapy is flexible, holistic and individualised to you
- Comprehensive: Balance the interconnectedness of mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being
- Empowering: Expand your toolkit of inner resources – homework, visualisations, experiments, tools, insights & meditations for you to take home
- Accessible: Therapy in Leiden (in-person) or online, and a sliding-scale fee
- Safe: therapy is trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ & neurodivergent-affirmative and anti-racist & -ableist
- Diverse Techniques (depending on what works for you): Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy , Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and more
Couples/Polycule Therapy
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- Personalised: Unique therapy approach & treatment plan tailored for your needs and therapy goals – therapy is flexible, holistic and individualised to you both/all
- Comprehensive: Balance the interconnectedness of mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being – together
- Empowering: Expand your range of inner resources and tools for finding connection together – homework, visualisations, experiments, tools, insights & meditations for you to take home
- Accessible: Therapy in Leiden (in-person) or online, and a sliding-scale fee
- Safe: therapy is trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ & neurodivergent-affirmative, sex-positive, ethically non-monogamous orientated, and anti-racist & anti-ableist
- Diverse Techniques (depending on what works for you as a unit): The Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Family Systems, Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Sex Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and more
Expressive Art Therapy
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- Expressive: Orchestrating & facilitating for companies, schools or universities, tailored to your organisation’s needs
- Profound: Expressive Art Therapy is a window into our inner world – through the intuitive art practise, we reach places words cannot
- Flexible: Applicable for individuals, couples, polycules, families, or groups. Expressive Art Therapy can be a modality used in our therapy journey, or it can be a stand-alone session
- Expressive: Intuitive painting, collaging, clay-work or full body painting
- Healing: Creativity is a powerful way to metabolise pain into resilience
- Comprehensive: Supported by tailored music, guided meditations & visualisations, facilitated shares for deeper insights
- Self-Compassionate: Since the art practise is a fun and non-threatening means of self-exploration, the inner critic gets reframed into a self-compassionate inner coach
- Accessible: Therapy in Leiden (in-person) or online, and a sliding-scale fee available
- Safe: trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ & neurodivergent-affirmative and anti-racist & -ableist
Facilitation of Workshops, Talks & Retreats
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- Workshops: I facilitate interactive, intimate workshops with the aim that participants go home with a strengthened sense of self & community. Topics I’ve facilitated in workshops: ‘Create Your Self-Soothing Map’, ‘Nurture… Not Neglect’, ‘Embody Your Best Self’, ‘Move, Breathe & Release’ & ‘Befriend Your Body’
- Talks: The interactive talks I’ve offered also centre on connection, I like to learn from my audience. As part of my social responsibility, I offer free lectures to a College in a rural part of India & to students at Leiden University during Wellbeing Week. Topics I’ve discussed in lectures: ‘Boundaries 101’, ‘Calm Your Nervous System’, ‘Anger, The Superpower’, ‘How to Actually Listen’, ‘Befriend our Feelings’ & ‘How to Cope… Not Avoid’
- Retreats: Chiaroscuro Retreat; Disconnect, Reconnect & Create – immersive 6-day retreat for artists, in an incredible Italian castle. Everyday I facilitated one immersive group activation, held space for individual counselling & guided meditations/visualisations, whilst the artists co-conceived a powerful art piece together.
- Engaging: Offering the audience an immersive, thought-provoking & heart-centred experience, with resources to take home to further digest & integrate
Free Guided Group Meditations in Leiden
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- Details: I guide free group meditations every Thursday from 18.00 – 19.15 & my co-leader every Sunday from 17.30 – 19.00 at Rapenburg 100, Leiden
- Structure: We start with a guided 20-minute mediation, heart-first shares & a mētta meditation (Buddhist love & compassion meditation)
- Safe Space: Alongside the guided-meditations, we hold an intimate & safe space to optionally share from the heart – healing happens in community
- Free: No registration or payment, no strings attached – come & go as you wish
Testimonials
Ishana was great. We had 10 [individual therapy] sessions together online. I didn’t know if I could open up to someone on my laptop, but I did. I felt very safe and understood by her.
I achieved my therapeutic objectives. Those two months were truly transformational. Thank you!!!
— Individual Therapy. Oxford, U.K.
My girlfriend and I did a spontaneous painting of ourselves together, with our inner children in the frame.
It was incredible for our relationship. My girlfriend told me things she had never mentioned before. I’m not ashamed to say I cried. We got so much closer. Who knew painting with our left hands could do this?
— Couple Expressive Arts Therapy. Leiden, The Netherlands
I knew that the therapy worked when one of my friends commented on how vocal I had become with expressing my feelings. That was one of my main therapeutic goals!
I used to think that I wasn’t emotional. Like I never knew what I was really feeling. Through the therapy, Ishana helped me realize that I needed to validate my feelings. Growing up, my parents would make me second guess my emotions… just like their parents had done with them. Intergenerational trauma is real. I feel like I’m slowly breaking that cycle.
— Individual Therapy. New York, U.S.A
When I started therapy with Ishana, I was pretty depressed. I had just lost my job because of COVID and I felt hopeless. We worked together for about 2 months. In those months… I got my shit together! I moved out from a bad place, I got a new job and I confronted my mum on her behaviour. I definitely recommend Ishana. I always felt heard by her and that she really understood me.
— Individual Therapy. The Hague, The Netherlands
Pay Scale
Individual Therapy
Our individual sessions typically are an hour (60 minutes) long. For individual sessions exceeding one hour, fees are charged proportionally (e.g., 1.5 hours = 1.5 x the session fee).
| Monthly Income (Gross, Bruto) / € | Individual Therapy Fee (per 1 hr Session) / € |
| < 1,500 | 65 |
| 1,500 – 2,500 | 75 |
| 2,500 – 4,000 | 90 |
| 4,000 – 5,500 | 105 |
| > 5,500 | 120 |
| If your company pays | 130 |
| If a guardian/parent pays | Their income on this scale |
Couples/Polycule Therapy
Sessions for couples/polycules are scheduled for 1.5 hours. They can be scheduled for 2 hours for an additional proportionate fee. We suggest within the couple that the fee is divided equitably.
| Combined Monthly Income (Gross, Bruto) / € | Couples/Polycule Therapy Fee (per 1.5 hr Session) / € |
| < 3,500 | 150 |
| 3,500 – 5,000 | 165 |
| 5,000 – 8,000 | 180 |
| 8,000 – 11,000 | 195 |
| > 11,000 | 210 |
| If a guardian/parent contributes | Their income on this scale |
Intern’s Scale
Interns completing their Clinical Psychology MSc offer therapy sessions at ⅔ of the standard rate. Individual sessions typically are an hour (60 minutes) long. Individual sessions over an hour (1.5) can be arranged for an additional proportionate fee.
| Monthly Income (Gross, Bruto) / € | Individual Therapy Fee (per 1 hr Session) / € |
| < 1,500 | 43 |
| 1,500 – 2,500 | 50 |
| 2,500 – 4,000 | 60 |
| 4,000 – 5,500 | 70 |
| > 5,500 | 80 |
| If your company pays | 87 |
| If a guardian/parent pays | Their income on this scale |
Therapy should be accessible. Everyone deserves care for their mental health.
Ishana Durante Bose 