Mitchel Heitinga

How it started

I have worked with people who want to change something since 2010. In the beginning that was broad — coaching, training, personal development. I was looking for methods that actually worked, not ones that merely sounded good. That search led me to IEMT, the Integral Eye Movement Technique, developed by Andrew T. Austin.

What I saw there changed the way I look at this work. No hours of talking about the problem, but working directly on the layer where the feeling holds on. Eye movements, mental imagery, the sentence you started believing about yourself after a defining event. In a handful of sessions — sometimes in one — I saw shifts people had been searching for for years.

Why IEMT won't let me go

IEMT is honest. It doesn't promise everything will be better. It works on the charge that's stuck — the emotional sharpness, the identity belief — and leaves the rest alone. Sometimes it works surprisingly fast. Sometimes it doesn't work this time. And that is information too.

That honesty suits me. I'm not one for grand promises. I like to look together at what's going on, find the shortest path to it, and then do what works. No more than needed. No unnecessary sessions. No dependency.

I trained with Andrew T. Austin himself and with Roni Matar. I now train other professionals in IEMT as well, and I coach individuals — with a preference for grief that has stayed. Not because I'm the only one who's good at it, but because I keep seeing it work.

What I wish for you

I believe everyone deserves not to be held in place any longer by something that once happened. Not by forgetting it — that's not the point, and it's not what IEMT does. But by softening the charge, so you can move more freely again. So the grief is allowed to be there without overwhelming you.

I wish that for everyone. And the beautiful thing is: it doesn't have to take long. A short intervention, at the right moment, in the right place — that can be enough to shift something fundamental. That is what I work for.

How I work

Almost always online, by video call. That works very well for this kind of work — you're in your own space, in your own place. In person in Hoorn (the Netherlands) is possible by arrangement.

No three-page intake forms. No fixed twelve-session programmes. We start with a short introductory call — no obligation — and look together at whether my way of working fits you. After that we decide session by session.