Preview. Your Anthesis is not open yet: I am completing my certification and my KvK registration as a ZZP'er, and I am not taking clients until that is done.
I work with queer and international adults in Utrecht who are somewhere between stages: mid-move, mid-degree, mid-coming-out, mid-career-change. The work is figuring out what conditions you actually need, and then building them.
Sessions with me, Marco. In person in Utrecht or online, in English or Italian only.
You do not need a diagnosis, a crisis, or a tidy explanation to book a session. Most of the people I see are dealing with something ordinary that has become heavy:
If you need a diagnosis, medication or specialist mental-health treatment, coaching and counselling are not a substitute. I will tell you that directly and help you find the right route. More on what this is and is not.
Most of the work is sold as packages you pay for up front, so you know the total before you begin and we can plan a real arc instead of an open-ended meter. Single sessions exist too, at the full rate.
Space to work through identity, relationships, intimacy, family, isolation, self-worth. Queer-affirming by default, meaning your identity is the starting point of the conversation and never the thing being examined for legitimacy. Sexuality is a named focus, within a strictly non-medical scope.
How counselling worksFor when the thing in the way is work. A structured look at your personality and working style, a map of your actual skills, then a shortlist of professions that fit and a written plan with a first move. Often booked after counselling, once the career question comes into focus.
How career coaching worksA set number of places in every package are held at a reduced rate for people on low incomes: students, people between permits, anyone whose situation makes the standard rate impossible. No means-testing paperwork. You tell me what you can pay.
Rates & sliding scaleCoaches tend to have a natural register. Mine sits in four of the six coaching attitudes, and it moves in a predictable direction across a package: I spend the early sessions listening and asking, and the later ones teaching and planning. Knowing this in advance means you can decide whether it suits you.
You finish your sentences. I do not fill silences or reroute your story towards a conclusion I have already picked.
Specific questions, from the beginning, about the actual situation. Often the question you arrive with is not the one worth answering.
When a model, a piece of research or someone else's experience would help, I hand it over rather than waiting for you to arrive at it alone.
What is happening in the room right now is data. Attention to body, mood and what shifts mid-sentence, not just to the account you have prepared.
The six coaching attitudes are a framework developed by Karen Walthuis. More about my background and training.
Online. You describe what is going on, I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. Priced low so trying is easy, and credited: if you book a package, the €[00] comes off the total.
Career coaching, or counselling in five or ten. We settle the rate here, including sliding scale if you need it. You get a short written agreement covering confidentiality and cancellation.
Fifty minutes each, usually every one or two weeks, in person in Utrecht or online. Between sessions there is normally something small to try, not homework for its own sake.
The last session closes the arc. With career coaching that is a written plan with concrete steps. With counselling it is a clear sense of what changed and what to watch for.
Online, €[00], credited toward your package if you continue. If what you need is outside what I do, I will say so and point you somewhere better.
