Testimonials

I came to Antoinette after spending many years on a healing journey.  I finally reached a brick wall where all the "regular" things were no longer working and there was a need to reach a deeper level of healing.  Antoinette created a safe space for me to get a deeper understanding of my trauma and find resources to help manage the pain and break through. 
It was the first time in my life that someone had acknowledged what I had been through and gave me a renewed strength to move forward.
Over the last 10 years, I've tried many different types of therapy, participated in retreats and immersed myself in self-help books and lectures.  I know I made a lot of progress over the years, but felt stuck in a few major ways.  Antoinette introduced me to EMDR as a different approach to addressing unacknowledged childhood trauma.  EMDR had a dramatic effect and gave me a new awareness of what I had been carrying around my whole life.  While it was one of the most difficult periods of my life, Antoinette's support and EMDR have liberated me from my past.
​EMDR enabled me to directly face what was holding me back and has put me on a new path.  Antoinette has been an incredible force in my life and I will be forever grateful for her support, guidance and wisdom.  I'm on a new path that is more authentic to who I am and am confident that I am free to live my best life.   Antoinette enabled deep spiritual growth and helped me achieve significant personal progress.

Eva  37
Marketing Director

I am in a long-term, long-distance relationship. We were having serious problems we were unable to resolve so we sought couples counseling with Antoinette to try to save the relationship. I also saw her separately to discuss my remaining sadness about the end of my prior marriage.
The couples counseling, which was with Antoinette and a male counselor, was extremely effective for me and my boyfriend (who is skeptical about the value of therapy).  I think having their male and female perspectives helped us to finally appreciate each other's positions. We have since made significant progress resolving our problems.
My individual counseling with Antoinette was truly life changing. She taught me techniques for understanding deep-seated feelings I have but have never accessed before. No other therapist has given me as much help and insight. I have since used these techniques to make several important life decisions, including decisions about my relationship, and I am a much happier person.
Antoinette is truly a talented, caring, and intuitive therapist. Her approach helped me more than any counseling I have had in the past. I therefore recommend her highly for both couples counseling and individual therapy.

Susan 50
Journalist

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​I had EMDR with Antoinette to help me to work through things that happened in my childhood that
I found were debilitating me in my personal and & professional life.
I found Antoinettes warm and insightful nature comforting and so was able to open up and trust her much more quickly than other therapists I have worked with.
EMDR has definitely helped me to quickly have the much needed break throughs to move my mental blocks and false beliefs.
I would highly recommend Antoinette to anyone seeking profound change.

Bill 46
General Manager

​Growing up, I was in and out of therapy with many different therapists for years, and never really managed to work through my issues. I started my sessions with Antoinette Steenkamp a year ago, and little by little I realized that my life has really changed. Antoinette helped  me work through my traumatic experiences and unhealthy thought patterns that I believed would be lodged in my head forever.
Over the past year, I have found strength to make changes that I never thought was possible, and I am finally coming into myself, becoming conscious of who I am, and more importantly, allowing myself to be. Antoinette is highly professional and yet manages to remain very human, truly empathetic, and sincere.
She is warm and caring and never judgmental. She creates a very encouraging and respectful environment for sharing, and is never condescending. She is a rare find! Through a technique that taught me how my body and mind are connected, she helped me find a place of rest and safety within myself, which has helped me manage my anxiety so much better. For the first time, I feel that therapy really works and I have hope that my interior life can truly change for the better. 
 
Anne
Entrepreneur 

​We had very bad times with my husband ; things were going worse and worse ; lots of misunderstandings, aggression and shouts in our couple interaction. We were suffering a lot. 
Upon one of our truthful friend’s advice, we decided to experience couple counselling (2012) without knowing whether we could rebuild a strong and truthful relationship.  
The work we performed with Antoinette and Alain literally saved our couple and our family (my husband has three children and we have three more together). Antoinette and Alain helped us listening to and understanding each other; they subtly explained us how to efficiently communicate with empathy and trust. Pain and suffer disappeared within a few months (we consulted for a bit more than 1 year). Today, love & trust are stronger than ever. Very rapidly in 2012, I started consulting Antoinette on my own. It tremendously helped me in my couple counselling (I was more “in trust”) and beyond in my life as a mother and as a professional.
I realized the intrinsic reasons of my suffer and pain, I worked on them, I gained self-esteem and serenity.
I have evolved a lot since I first met her, I feel so much better, I believe in myself. I owe a lot to Antoinette; she is an excellent professional but more than that she is an exceptional person, shiny, caring and compassionate.  She is very skilled, structured and rational ; she delicately guided me/us, encouraged us to take concrete actions to improve life, reduce pain, feel in harmony.

 Mellie 43 
Fund manager in Private equity

For a very long time I lived in a state of constant anxiety in my marriage. No matter what I did or how I tried to cope, I couldn't overcome my feelings of sadness, frustration and isolation. When I saw the chance to get support from Antoinette Steenkamp, a qualified and caring therapist who was bilingual, I jumped at the chance. 

Antoinette provided a safe, comfortable, supportive environment in which to express myself freely without reservation or hesitation. Her gentle approach allowed me to connect with her as I would with a sister, but with the added advantage that she was completely objective. She uses her expertise to listen intently and guide you to come to your own conclusions and decisions while offering insight and food for thought. She never imposes her own will onto you, but offers tools and exercises to do between sessions, allowing your therapy to be a continuous process in and out of her office.

With my own commitment to therapy, along with Antoinette's untiring support and guidance, I was able to find my inner strength again and make the changes that were right for me. Everyday I'm grateful that I met her and am now living my life feeling happy, peaceful and content".  

Ann 40
Education Consultant

"I went to Antoinette Steenkamp in order to free myself from a relationship that was making me unhappy. I had realised that this was part of a lifelong pattern of failed relationships but needed help to have the courage to leave and break the pattern once and for all. I did not want long-term analysis but needed to work with someone who could give me the tools that would help me move on with confidence. After each session, I felt myself getting a little stronger, seeing more clearly (even though it was through tears much of the time). I could not wait for the next session. Antoinette made me face truths in a gentle but inescapable way, and this was the key to my transformation. She is insightful, intuitive and at the same time very concrete and professional. This does not stop her from being kind, caring and compassionate. I have recommended her to a number of people who have all benefited greatly from her multi-skilled approach. I am now in a happy marriage and I am grateful for the day I came across Antoinette."

Phil Eaven, 50
International Consultant for Political Affairs

"I had no idea what to expect when I began my therapy sessions,and I was more than a little apprehensive at first but Antoinette Steenkamp helped me through each one with patience and compassion. The process of therapy itself was long and sometimes felt a bit overwhelming, as I often times had to recall uncomfortable and painful memories. Still after just a short while I realized that it was necessary for me to talk about my fears, in order to find some peace. Antoinette was a constant source of graceful inspiration that never wavered. Even when I thought I might give up, she would keep me focused. I am eternally grateful to her for helping me to live my life in the present and to remember to always be good to myself". 

Elsa C, 28
Events Coordinator

"Antoinette Stenkamp is a thoughtful and caring person.  She is warm and in her presence, I felt safe to explore my troubles and insecurities.  Therapy can be a very vulnerable time, as it was for me, and many times, I found myself criticizing myself, which blocked my goal of breaking old patterns and establishing what was real for me.  At these times, Antoinette helped to keep me on track.  She comforted me without patronizing me, showed me the reason behind my "madness", and brought up questions which helped me to dig deeper".

Sophie, 43
Fashion designer, entrepreneur

​I have hugely benefited from going to see Antoinette Steenkamp for nearly two years- on
and off. She helped me understand the value of self-love, making
rational sense of my supposed anxiety and pain during a long break-up and
setting boundaries and learning to walk away from negative
relationships that were co-dependent and mutually destructive. I now know how to define my standards in terms of attracting positive friends and potential romantic partners both rationally and emotionally. I am also learning to forgive myself and my beloved ones, including abusive ex boyfriends, which remains a challenge...

Michaela. 35. Writer-Editor


I came to Antoinette at a very vulnerable and broken time in my life.  I had no strength or courage in my ability to live in the relationship I was in.  I felt scared and frightened all the time.  Over time and through many counseling sessions, I gained my strength back and was able to feel as though I could take control of my life again. 
Part of my sessions with Antoinette were EMDR sessions.  At first, I was unsure of the outcome or how this could help me change my thoughts and thinking.  By the end of three sessions of EMDR, I could see the difference they made in me and how I viewed myself and the world around me.  I was amazed at the progress the sessions helped me to gain in my own self-confidence, courage, and strength.
I have always believed in counseling and therapy for every aliment of life but to go through it myself and see the difference it has made for me, makes me a true believer.  Antoinette truly has a gift for helping people find their way through troubled times (especially if those people accept the help and guidance!).  Don’t suffer through life…find a way out of the suffering to happiness.  That’s what I did and am so grateful for every moment of happiness now.
 
Sarah, 35. American living in Paris