Saskia

Mrs Saskia Fick, MA

Clinical Psychologist

Verified

“I believe therapy is most effective when it truly fits you. I partner with each person and partnership, drawing from various therapeutic insights to understand your unique experiences. We'll explore what feels right for you, ensuring our work addresses your whole self. This tailored approach helps you navigate life’s complexities. It creates a deeply personal space where your individual needs are truly heard and supported.”

About Me

With more than a decade of experience, I pride myself on my holistic and collaborative approach. Being multicultural and bi-racial myself, I have an interest in the complexities and nuances that come with each persons background and identity.

Approach

Sessions feel like carefully paced experiments where we try ideas, notice what shifts and adjust together so the work actually fits your life. Depending on your needs, we move between reflective dialogue, short practical exercises, and mindfulness skills.
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Basic Information

In-person & Online

Services

I offer individual and partnership therapy in Amsterdam. Sessions can be online and/or in-person.

Services Offered:

  • CBT

    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a structured, evidence-based approach that identifies and changes unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours.

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  • Guided Visualisation

    A relaxation technique in which a therapist guides you through calming mental imagery to reduce stress, anxiety, or pain.

  • Humanistic Therapy

    A therapeutic approach grounded in the belief that people are inherently capable of growth and self-understanding, focusing on present experience, personal meaning, and the therapeutic relationship.

  • Individual Psychotherapy

    In-depth one-on-one therapy that explores the deeper roots of a person's difficulties, often drawing on psychodynamic or psychoanalytic models.

  • Integrative Psychotherapy

    An approach that draws on multiple therapeutic models, tailored to the individual, rather than following a single method.

  • Interpersonal Therapy

    A short-term, structured therapy that focuses on improving relationships and resolving interpersonal difficulties as a way to relieve emotional distress, particularly depression.

  • Mindfulness

    The practice of paying deliberate attention to the present moment without judgement, used to reduce stress and increase awareness of automatic reactions.

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  • Online Therapy

    Therapy sessions conducted over video call, phone, or secure messaging, using the same professional methods delivered remotely.

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  • Relationship Counselling

    Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.

  • Trauma Counselling

    Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.

    Learn more about Trauma Counselling

Works With:

  • Adults
  • Couples
  • Families
  • Individuals
  • Parents

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

  • ADHD / Attention Difficulties

    A neurodevelopmental condition involving persistent difficulty with attention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity that interferes with daily functioning.

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  • Anxiety

    Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.

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  • Autism (ASD)

    A neurodevelopmental condition affecting social communication, sensory processing, and behaviour patterns, with a wide range of presentations and strengths.

  • Body Image

    How a person perceives, thinks, and feels about their physical appearance. When persistently negative, it can drive distress, avoidance, and disordered eating.

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  • Codependency

    A relational pattern in which a person's sense of identity and self-worth becomes excessively tied to caring for or controlling another person, often at their own expense.

  • Control Issues

    A persistent need to control situations, people, or outcomes, typically driven by underlying anxiety, fear of uncertainty, or past experiences of helplessness.

  • Cross-Cultural

    The psychological challenges of living between two or more cultures, including identity conflicts, acculturation stress, and difficulties with belonging.

  • Family Issues

    Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.

  • Gender Identity & Self-Image

    A person's internal sense of their own gender, which may or may not align with the sex assigned at birth, and the distress or exploration that can accompany this.

  • Life Transitions

    Major life changes, such as relocation, retirement, parenthood, or career shifts, that disrupt routine and require psychological adjustment.

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Professional Title:

  • Clinical Psychologist

    An advanced mental health professional trained to assess and treat a wide range of difficulties, from anxiety and depression to trauma and complex conditions.

Credentials

Qualifications

Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology

University of Johannesburg

Memberships

Netherlands Institute of Psychologists (NIP)

Service Areas

Saskia Fick Psychology

In-person & Online

Amsterdam-Centrum

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland 1012 VP

Netherlands