Dr. Nicole Ruysschaert
Nicole Ruysschaert M.D., Psychiatrist.
Antwerp, Belgium.
BOD VHYP Flemish Scientific Hypnosis Society. Public Relations.
Psychiatrist. Psychotherapist. Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. EMDR practitioner. Coach. Trainer and supervisor in hypnosis and psychotraumatology.
She joined ESH Board of Directors in 2002, was elected president 2008, took over presidency in August 2011. She was ESH Newsletter editor for many years. She is ISH COR representative for her society. She still plays an active role in the VHYP after more than 20 years in different functions.
After her medical training and internship in Psychiatry she started private practice and worked in a Mental Health Centres. She took training in CBT and hypnosis. Over the years, she worked with hypnosis for a variety of problems, like (posttraumatic) stress and stress related disorders (burnout, CFS, fibromyalgia), (phobic) anxiety, performance enhancement, pain, psychosomatics, functional syndromes, habit control, social anxiety.
Besides individual therapy, she has a lot of experience with group therapy training in private practice and as trainer for European institutions (stress and time management, self-hypnosis, development of personal efficiency, assertiveness training).
Later she took an EMDR and coaching training and experienced how to integrate different therapy methods to fine-tune her work.
She believes that BOD member work is a source of energy, rewarding itself by the many contacts and friendships it entails.
