Treatment offer

We offer a treatment offer for adults and youth. We also offer this partly online and in English.

When you are registered with the NPI, you will first receive an intake. During this intake, you will determine together with an NPI practitioner which treatment is best for you. When the intake is completed, you will be placed on the waiting list of one of the seven care pathways of the NPI. A care pathway consists of several treatment methods. As soon as there is room for one of these methods, you will be invited for an introductory meeting with a practitioner. This way we can help you faster.

Within the care pathways you have the following treatment methods:

• Affect Fobie Therapie (AFT)
• Guideline-Informed Treatment for Personality Disorders (GIT-PD)
• Kortdurende Psychodynamische Steungevende Psychotherapie (KPSP)
• Mentaliseren Bevorderende Therapie (MBT)
• Psychodynamische Psychotherapie (PD)
• Schematherapie (ST)
• Transference Focused Psychotherapie (TFP)
• Zorgaanbod peripartum (de periode kort voor, tijdens en direct na de bevalling)

The NPI offers young people who get stuck due to early personality problems and additional emotional or behavioural problems the best possible specialised psychotherapy. This mainly concerns young people for whom previous treatments have had insufficient effect. NPI Youth focuses mainly on the age group 16 to 23 years. The NPI offers the following treatments:

• Mentaliseren Bevorderende Therapie (MBT-A, MBT-J)
• Kortdurende Psychoanalytische Steungevende Psychotherapie (KPSP-A)
• Transference Focused Psychotherapie (TFP-A)
• Psychodynamische Psychotherapie (PD)
• Aanvullende behandelingen

NPI online offers an opportunity to follow schema therapy from your own environment. This allows you to follow therapy in an environment that is pleasant and comfortable for you. In addition, you save travel time. NPI online provides schema therapy in Dutch or in English, individually or in the short-term group. Read more about our online aanbod.

For non-Dutch-speaking clients, the NPI offers a limited range of English-language options. The treatment has more focus and a less broad scope than for Dutch speakers. In this way, our practitioners, who are not native English speakers, can help our clients as efficiently as possible.

The treatment offer for non-Dutch-speaking people with personality problems is very limited in the Netherlands. In this way, the NPI tries to make a contribution, alongside other Amsterdam healthcare providers. In this way, we do our best to help you as best we can.

View the factsheets of English-language treatments below for more information.

• Group Schema Therapy (half open)
• Group Schema Therapy (short term)
• Guideline-Informed Treatment for Personality Disorders (GIT-PD)
• Psychoanalytic Supportive Psychotherapy (SPSP-25) short term
• Psychoanalytic Supportive Psychotherapy (SPSP-50) short term
• NPI Online

• Collaboration with the practitioner
  A good working relationship with your practitioner is the basis of all conversations at the NPI. This means that you have confidence in your therapist and feel that you can work with him or her on your problems. This seems obvious, but especially for people with personality problems who have often experienced so many setbacks in relationships and cooperation with others, this is often not the case. We will therefore regularly ask you how you experience the conversations and help you to discuss something right away if something is bothering you in the collaboration with your therapist.
• Perseverance and motivationIt is necessary to accept that it can sometimes take a while for results to become visible, especially if the problems have been around for a long time or are very persistent. Both the practitioners and you yourself need perseverance to understand where your complaints come from and to achieve sustainable change.
• Thinking about the why of your complaints
  For treatment, it is necessary for someone to try to reflect on themselves and their own feelings and thoughts. The best result is achieved when you gain more insight into where the complaints come from. Your therapist will of course help you with this, but it is important that you also feel motivated to get started.
• Presence
  Sometimes there is not enough room to invest in the emotional quest and changes that psychotherapy brings. For example, it can be difficult to keep appointments, which reduces the chance of successful treatment. Sometimes, after discussing this problem, it is possible to continue the treatment properly. But sometimes it is better, after good mutual consultation, to stop the treatment and resume it at a later time.

A personality disorder can be treated well, but not necessarily during one intensive process. Treatments are increasingly being set up as episodic treatments. This means that there are defined periods of care aimed at specific goals. Interspersed with periods in which no or much less care is offered. This treatment principle is more in line with the vulnerability of people with a personality disorder, even after successful treatment.

Sometimes there is not enough room to invest in the emotional quest and changes that psychotherapy brings. For example, it can be difficult to keep appointments, which reduces the chance of successful treatment. Sometimes, after discussing this problem, it is possible to continue the treatment properly. But sometimes it is better, after good mutual consultation, to stop the treatment and pick it up again at a later time.

During treatment, building trust in the environment is essential. In this way, you put the things you learn into practice during the treatment and then pick up the thread yourself again with the support of loved ones.

When stressed, old patterns can return. For example, when a partner falls away or when other difficult circumstances arise. This does not mean that you are back to square one, but that you have to carefully look at which care suits you best at that time. With the necessary support from the environment or through a few booster sessions, recovery is often possible.