Dutch psychiatrist, author and advocate for more compassionate mental healthcare. Before becoming a psychiatrist, she worked as an emergency physician and general practitioner. In 2016, she initiated HART voor de GGZ (Heart for Mental Healthcare), a movement that promotes working with compassion and self-compassion in mental healthcare.

She is the author of eight books on psychiatry and mental health, including two textbooks on patient-centered communication, Heart for Mental Healthcare, Heart for Recovery, Recovery in Your Pocket, and Less Meds, about the responsible tapering of psychotropic medication. In her book A Thin Line of Chance, she writes openly about her own mental health crisis and her journey towards recovery.