Sophia's Bio

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Sophia's calling began in 1974 as a Scientific Researcher at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, now Radboud University, after receiving graduate degrees in Sociology,
Social Psychiatry and Criminology (with Prof. Dr. C.I. Dessaur, also known as the brilliant writer Andreas Burnier). 
The education in Sociology at the Radboud University has been the very best in Holland for years with a formal (NVAO) and extra quality mark "excellent".
Some time as a Scientific Researcher at the Institute for Applied Sociology in Nijmegen was added.  
Then she acquired Certifications in Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy from the Institute for Psychotherapy in Arnhem, the Netherlands. 
For seven years Sophia worked with institutionalized criminals 
and as a Consultant for Mental Health Professionals.

In 1985 Sophia made the move from Amsterdam to New York City and received a three year, full-time training and Certification in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Blanton Peale Institute of the Institutes of Religion and Health. 
The Blanton-Peale Institute is nonsectarian and non denominational, founded by Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and psychiatrist Smiley Blanton.  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale is the author of many works, amongst them The Power of Positive Thinking.  
Simultaneously Sophia trained to be an Imago Relationship Therapist (certified in 1992).
Sophia holds the status of Advanced Clinician of the Institute for Relationship Therapy in New York, founded by Helen LaKelly Hunt and Harville Hendrix, now Imago Relations International. 
She is also a member of the American Association for Pastoral Counselors, since the late eighties. 
Sophia edited two professional Newsletters and researched ancient wisdom and universal truth for years, as well as the contributions of the beacons and engines of human advancement.

After conducting a psychotherapy and relationship therapy private practice in the San Remo building in New York City for almost two decades, Sophia longed to facilitate wellbeing, purpose and prosperity, in a more focused, efficient and faster way.
Sophia developed a holistic approach which:
1. takes advantage of the wealth of possibilities of the combined fields of sociology, psychoanalysis, relationship therapy, metaphysics, spirituality, history, human rights and human genius.
2. looks at the bigger picture and uses new and inspiring models, to get better and quicker results.
The title Destiny Consultant ™ represents the work of living your true and most happy destiny.