Team
Praktijk Lastage is a small-scale practice with two familiar faces: diagnosis and treatment are entirely in the hands of the psychiatrist, while practice management is handled behind the scenes.
Angela JJM de Groot
Psychiatrist · BIG 19063962801
You are looking for effective treatment for your symptoms. Treatment in specialist mental healthcare always touches on matters that affect you personally. It is only natural, then, to want to know before you choose a practitioner who you will be dealing with, and what professional qualifications and experience they bring.
Education
If you choose Praktijk Lastage, the whole course of diagnosis and treatment will be carried out by me, Angela de Groot. I am a doctor, and psychiatry is my medical specialty. I studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam UMC, qualifying as a doctor in May 2005. I completed my specialist training as a psychiatrist in November 2010 at the Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum in Leiden. Two components of that training were done in Amsterdam: the crisis service placement at Spoedeisende Psychiatrie Amsterdam, and the elective psychotherapy placement at what was then the Centrum voor Psychotherapie and the NPI (Nederlands Psychoanalytisch Instituut).
Experience and continuing education
I then worked as a team psychiatrist at De Hoofdlijn, a practice for psychotherapy and psychiatry, until May 2016. There I became skilled in small-scale, patient-centred work. I continue to maintain and extend my knowledge and skills: I have taken the advanced EMDR course, for example. In recent years I have specialised in various forms of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychoanalytische Psychotherapie. I also keep my pharmacological and psychotherapeutic knowledge current by following the literature, through Psyfar among others, and through the continuing education offered by the various associations I belong to:
- Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie
- Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychotherapie
- Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychoanalytische Psychotherapie
- Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot bevordering der Geneeskunst
- Federatie Medisch Specialisten
Personal approach
I am, and see myself as, a medical specialist. I try to guide you towards lasting relief from your symptoms using strategies of proven effectiveness. Where it is medically indicated, I might suggest that you take medication for a period alongside (short-term) psychotherapy. Whether you follow such advice is your decision. The arguments for and against — the use of medication, psychotherapy, or both — will form part of the conversations we have together. In these I aim for an open and unprejudiced attitude, working from a modern psychodynamic perspective. You set the pace of therapy, because a change in how you see your fears, the events of your life, or yourself cannot be forced.
Niels M van Strien, PhD
Practice manager · back office
To free Angela up as much as possible for direct patient contact, I take on the work that happens in the background: invoicing, preparing the annual reports, and tracking and implementing changes in regulations.
In addition, I work part-time at the University of Amsterdam as a researcher on neural networks in the brain. That role is separate from my work for the practice.