Suzanne Bindels

Room for Connection

Location 1:
Haarlem Netherlands

Website: https://roomforconnection.nl (still in progress in 2025)

Location 2:
Amsterdam

With my company Room for Connection, I offer support through one-on-one conversations and small group coaching. My services are available both face-to-face and online. I work with people who are going through heartbreak and want to recover from this often painful experience in a way that allows space for all emotions to be felt and processed.

In daily life, you often hear people say: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” At Room for Connection, however, our slogan is: “Cry because it’s over, and smile because it happened.” In this way, all the waves of experiences, sensations, and emotions that arise in the weeks and months after a romantic breakup receive full attention. From this bottom-up process, a genuine smile eventually emerges in the later phases of working together.
Not a smile forced by willpower, but one that comes from the heart. It arises naturally because there was a safe space for everything to be expressed.

A part from the Room for Connection coaching services, I work as psychologist and trainer for the Dutch psychotrauma center ARQ IVP and as a conversational skills trainer for the SSR (training institute of the Dutch judicial system and the Public Prosecution Service). I did my masters degree in organizational psychology at the University of Groningen (2003), followed by education in coaching, occupational social work, burnout prevention & recovery and multiple trauma recovery related courses. Currently I am continuing my learning process in the AEDP approach. Languages in which I offer the coaching services of Room for Connection: English, Dutch & French (Spanish & Italian; some basic knowledge, so reaching out in your own language is possible. Sessions will be in English).

AEDP Level 1

Availability: Yes
Therapy Settings: In-Person and Virtual