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local Friday 13 January 2023

Alysha Boekhoudt:

“Life is a beautiful gift, use this opportunity to

create the life you deserve”

in psychology. I managed to fin-
ish my four-year program in three
years. I fell in love with psychology
and was very determined and ex-
cited to learn new things”, she said.

Her passion for psychology took
her to FIU in Miami, Florida, where
she worked for three months in in-
tensive research with children with
ADHD. After graduation, she re-
turned to Aruba and completed
her Masters online in Industrial and
Organizational Psychology. “I am
very lucky that I was able to find a
job that I love and that I am good makes her happy, and dedicates
at”, she says. time to herself and her family.
For Wevolve’s future, she sees it as
Boekhoudt emphasizes that her a bigger company having more
inspiration to study psychology, psychologists working to help more
aside from wanting to help others people in need. She adds that she
and not seeing people suffer, what has a lot of interest in working with
inspired her the most was knowing foundations on the island, and
the mind of a person, her interest even come up with new projects
in seeing how each mind works to help the people. “Plans for the
differently and what makes each future there are many, but little by
person react different. little I adapt them and reach my
goal.”
Even after more than three years
working as a psychologist, she un- Finalizing, Boekhoudt expresses her
derscores, every case that she message for the community: “Life
takes makes her more and more is a beautiful gift that we received.
curious about the mind. “This is my What’s more, it is a gift that few of
motivation to continue studying so us received. Use this opportunity
ORANJESTAD – Alysha Boekhoudt lot of symptoms of anxiety, and I that I can understand and help my to create the life you deserve. Be-
is a young psychologist, who decided to find help”, she says. clients better.” lieve that you deserve a beautiful
thanks to her passion for helping life because you really deserve it.
others and learning more about Boekhoudt says that she is the type Boekhoudt is founder of Wevolve There are times when things can
the human mind, recently founded of person who always loved danc- Coaching & Advisory Services. She go in ways we do not want and we
Wevolve Coaching & Advisory Ser- ing and she always considered explains that seeing the amount can feel like we cannot handle it
vices. Boekhoudt told our reporter dance as a passion, it was even her of people needing help was one on our own. It’s okay, we are hu-
about her childhood, her passion, side job. “When I dance I feel like I of the biggest motivations for her man. Reach out to your loved
inspiration, and how all this influ- can express all the emotions that I to start her own practice. Despite ones or contact a psychologist for
enced her to reach where she is don’t feel comfortable expressing. this, she is a person with a lot of cre- help. Wevolve’s doors are always
now, and practice her dream pro- What’s more, often times I experi- ative ideas to work with founda- open.q
fession. enced that my emotions come to tions and the community of Aruba,
the surface when I dance. I see this and keeping this in mind, working
Boekhoudt says that she comes as a very beautiful expressive art.” in her own private practice facili-
from a family of five, and thanks to tates these possibilities.
her family she could enjoy a beau- Even though she now has gradu-
tiful childhood. Even though there ated in psychology, she points out “The main goal of Wevolve, as the
is much she does not remember, that this does not mean that study- name suggests, is for us to evolve
she says, from pictures she has ing was something she always together. I as a psychologist will
seen, stories she has heard, and liked. She says that when she was provide the tools and together we
the relationships within her fam- younger she was not be best be- will reach your goals. Aside from
ily, she feels sure that despite not haved at school, which meant she that, Wevolve is not focused only
having a lot of memories, her child- was held back a year and even on curative treatment but also pre-
hood was beautiful. had to change schools. ventive treatment. This is why we
organize a lot of workshops and
She explains that the reason she After completing high school, she talks”, she indicated.
doesn’t remember a lot of her didn’t attend school for two years.
childhood is because she is a per- Boekhoudt emphasized that during Regarding the future, Boekhoudt
son dealing with anxiety. “As far this time, it came to a point where pointed out that normally she
as I can remember, I have dealt she decided that she was ready to doesn’t like to think so far, but if she
with this my entire life. When I was become and act like an adult. “At has to imagine herself in ten years,
young I was never diagnosed with that moment I decided to go to she sees a 38 year old woman with
this, but by studying psychology I the United States, at Coastal Caro- a beautiful and happy family. A
began recognizing that I have a lina University to do my Bachelors person who each day does what