About Lara

My passion and inquisitive nature into what moves people, have brought me to coaching and psychotherapy.

I believe that every person has the inner ability to make themselves happier.

I look with admiration at how people solve their problems, manage to heal their pain and let their talent flourish.

I ask you good questions. I work as a sounding board for your inner conflict.
I help you find the core of the issue.
I invite you to go inside yourself with an active imagination to do the work.

In the process, you discover different aspects of yourself, blocks and forgotten talents. A world goes open for you, energy becomes available and awareness deepens.

About Lara

Life

I was born in Italy in 1970 and I moved in 2001 to the Netherlands where I live with my two daughters
(2008 and 2011).

I have worked for many years for international companies and learned a lot about corporate life.

A growing interest for people; what motivates them, what influences them and their capacity to change, led me to change my career path and to first study life coaching, and then psychotherapy.

Sometimes knowing when something is not working and pivoting to something new leads to our greatest opportunities and successes.

Kristina Saffran

Studies

The Dutch Academy for Psychotherapy in Amsterdam where I completed a four-year training in Integrative Psychotherapy.

At the Centre for Healing and Meditation in Hilversum, where I took part in an ongoing personal development group for 8 years.

For three years, I studied Social Anthropology at the University of Wales Lampeter.

I worked with Voice Dialogue for a long period and I received training in the Netherlands at the Institute for Transformational Psychology in Bergen with Robert Stamboliev and before that in Italy at Inner Team in Bologna with Franca Errani.

Philosophy

I believe that everybody would benefit from having, next to a general practitioner for their physical health, also a therapist/coach to keep their emotional and spiritual life healthy.

Take good care of yourself. Look holistically at your life: you have a body that needs healthy food and regular movement and you have a mind that needs intellectual nurturing.

You also have an emotional body that is stimulated daily and that is at the root of so many discomforts, pain and stress in life, don't forget to take good care of your emotional life.

Your spiritual dimension also cannot be forgotten: the reason why you do everything in life, your purpose and mission that motivates every step you take. This needs attention too if you want to live a happy and fulfilled life.

You are the most important instrument you have available to achieve anything you desire in life.

Professional Training

This is an overview of the schools I studied at and the teachers that worked with me at my professional development.