About me
Welcome, and nice to meet you! Hi, I'm Lucia Engel, creative therapist, healer and storyteller/speaker. I always believed life is beautiful and should be good. I love good food, art, stories, conversations, and everything that captures life's soul. When I felt depressed in my 20ties, tried lots of therapy, but couldn't grab a good flow, I moved to the beautiful country of Guatemala and bloomed in a way i could never imagine. After fifteen years I moved back to Holland for my daughter's studies and discovered Guatemala and its nature is actually inside my body, brain and voice. I always liked to create what I once missed. Once this was freedom, nature and abundance. This time it is voice, expression and connection.
My personal Journey
I grew up in a small, charming village in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands: where cows grazed slowly in wide green fields, and the air often carried the distant, trembling sound of military airplanes practicing overhead.
There was a softness in the land… but a restlessness in the atmosphere. Also inside my house parents were caring, but underneath there was a poor emotional landscape.
Inside our home, there was always a kind of tension.
Emotions moved through the space like bees circling a honey pot they could never quite find: buzzing, searching, unsettled.
You could feel them in the air, but they were rarely named, rarely held.
My parents eventually divorced.
But strangely, nothing really changed.
The emotional undercurrent stayed the same: unspoken, undefined.
So when I grew up, and started to make the same mistakes, saw how my young daughter was affected by it and decided to do different.
What makes me 'me'
As any good therapist, I have a big, warm heart.
And I’ve lived what I teach.
But maybe what makes me me…
is that I don’t just understand complex trauma and the ways we protect ourselves: I translate them.
Into images.
Into stories.
Into something you can actually feel and recognize.
Because so much of what we carry is hard to grasp in words alone.
I work with the whole of you.
Your emotions.
Your nervous system.
Your body.
Your beliefs.
Your way of expressing.
Not to fix you, but to make visible what has been living inside you all along.
Sometimes gently.
Sometimes with a bit of humor.
Sometimes in a way that suddenly makes you go: oh… that’s me.
My work didn’t come from a book.
It grew through working with children in hospitals,
in orphanages after hurricanes,
and with young adults in prison for over three years.
And also… through my own path.
From being disconnected from my body,
to slowly, carefully finding my way back.
Into feeling.
Into balance.
Into a life that feels more like mine.
I am proud of my life and outer accomplishments. But mostly I am because of how my emotional landscape is blooming through its seasons.
Sometimes I go on a deep adventure.
Into what I sometimes call the underworld of the psyche.
And I’ve come back: again and again.
So when you meet parts of yourself that feel confusing, intense, or hidden…
you won’t be alone there.
I care deeply about doing this work in a way that feels safe, real, and human.
To me, this isn’t just personal growth.
It’s how we gently change the world: from the inside out.
When we work together, we meet in warmth.
In a safe connection.
No forcing. No rushing.
We will discover your colors, your stories, your inner language: we make visible what is most true, most alive, and often most loving in you.
And sometimes… we might even laugh a little along the way.
Ontdek jouw stem in het "Voice Lab"
Ik creëer een veilige plek genaamd "Voice Lab". In dit lab verkennen we jouw stem en herstellen we de volledige breedte van jouw zielsvonk door onzichtbare emoties te verkennen. Voel je erkend en vind de kracht in je eigen verhaal.