Hello, I am Mieke Bessems

I am entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, creative, patient, inquisitive and people-oriented. I enjoy working together with the client to come up with a treatment plan/solution for you as a unique person. You or your child is not a number with me, but I make a treatment plan together with you that suits you best and that you feel comfortable with.
I have all-round speech therapy knowledge. I work with children, adults and the elderly. I have experience in the areas of language (language comprehension, sentence structure, vocabulary, language use and language problems, also after brain injury (aphasia)), speech and fluency (delayed speech development, verbal apraxia, facial paralysis, slurring, fluency problems), hearing (problems with auditory functions, problems with reading/spelling due to auditory difficulties and language problems, counselling of hearing-impaired and deaf people), communication (children with language and speech problems combined with autism and/or intellectual disabilities/sensory information processing problems, giving advice on alternative communication) and oral-motor problems (treating children who suck thumbs/wrong tongue positioning/open mouth behaviour, eating and swallowing problems after brain injury, general eating and drinking problems in children, adults and the elderly).

I provide speech and language therapy in both Dutch and English. I myself lived in San Diego (USA) for five years with my family as an expat, so I have first-hand experience of what it is like to live as a ‘foreigner’ in another country.

I also accompany expats. I teach them the Dutch language and support them where necessary to become familiar with Dutch culture. I also give speech therapy to Dutch expats. I know from experience that it can sometimes be difficult to find a Dutch speech therapist abroad for yourself or for your children. Then online speech therapy with a Dutch speech therapist is very convenient and nice!

I hope to see you soon in my digital practice!