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
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.
If you choose Praktijk Lastage, the whole course of diagnosis and treatment will be carried out by me, Angela de Groot. 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 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 have a strong scientific interest in neuroscience, where the overlap with psychiatry is a valuable addition to our practice.