Personal Development Coaching
Akke-Jeanne Klerk
Personal development coaching is for anyone who wants to understand themselves more deeply and live more authentically.Whether you are going through a significant life change, feeling the pull of something new, or simply noticing that old patterns no longer serve you. I work with both private individuals and professionals.In my experience, the questions we face in our personal lives and in our work are rarely separate: who you are shapes how you lead, how you work, and how you relate to others.Coaching creates the space to look at both, so that the life you are living feels genuinely your own.
online life & professional coaching
I offer both life coaching and professional coaching. In practice, the two often overlap. But I also work with people in demanding, high-level roles who face a specific set of pressures (like decision fatigue, isolation at the top, the gap between how they are perceived and how they actually feel) and I have a strong sense of that terrain being a business owner myself as well.Personal development and professional coaching are, at their core, the same work. Whether you come with a question about your career, your leadership, your relationships, or your sense of direction in life, what we are exploring is who you are, and whether the life or work you are living reflects that.I work with private individuals and professionals alike: people in demanding roles who want to lead with more clarity and less reactivity, and people in quieter crossroads who simply know that something needs to change. In both cases, the the depth psychological approach asks: what is truly yours? What are you ready to let go of? And what unlived potential is waiting to be found?I offer my coaching sessions in Dutch and English. They take place online.
Teacher & Co-founder
Jung Platform
In 2011, I co-founded Jung Platform with Machiel, my brother. Jung Platform is an online organisation dedicated to making depth psychology accessible to everyone.What began as a small initiative has grown into a global platform offering courses, lectures, and programs taught by leading Jungian analysts and scholars from around the world. Tens of thousands of people have learned through Jung Platform.On Jung Platform I teach on a range of subjects, including the process of individuation, Jungian coaching, and finding inner peace.
Online Jungian psychology course
your individuation
What does it mean to truly become yourself? Jung called this individuation, a lifelong process of meeting the parts of yourself you have not yet known. This course makes his central ideas accessible, so the concepts come alive in your own life.I created Your Individuation, a five-class Jungian psychology course at Jung Platform, for anyone who wants to learn about Jungian psychology and apply Jung's ideas to their own life. Explore the persona, shadow, and the Self in a practical, accessible format.
Recognize how the shadow, complexes, and persona are shaping your choices
Connect Jungian concepts to your own experience
Listen to what your dreams, your body, and meaningful coincidences are telling you
Move from self-improvement toward authenticity
Pay attention to what wants to naturally emerge through you
Discount code (coupon): JQ5C2
Online coaching program
Jungian Coaching Certificate Program
I first encountered Jungian psychology in 1996 and it changed the way I understood myself, my relationships, and the people I worked with. I co-founded Jung Platform with my brother. Thirty years later, after teaching at the university and teaching at a coaching institute, I created the Jungian Life Coaching Certificate Program. It is a nine-month accredited online training that will enable you to apply the Jungian perspective in your coaching approach and your techniques.
About me
A lifelong curiosity about the inner life.I was 21 when I first encountered the psychology of Carl Jung. Something in me shifted. Here was a way of understanding the human being that felt true: not just the rational, visible self, but the dreams, the shadows, the symbols, the parts of us we have not yet met.That encounter never really ended. Three decades later, I am still learning, still in conversation with these ideas. I find it one of the great privileges of my work to explore them together with others.I hold a master's degree in psychology and have followed extensive Jungian training. In 2011, my brother and I founded Jung Platform. This is an online home for depth psychology that has since grown into the largest international platform for Jungian psychology.Over the years I taught psychology at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and worked as a trainer and coach at SchoolvoorCoaching, one of the Netherlands' leading coaching institutes, before making Jung Platform my full-time home five years ago.Today I coach individuals from all walks of life, and I teach on topics ranging from the psychology of heartbreak and the shadow to dreams, archetypes, and the search for meaning. My book Psychology of Heartbreak is published in Dutch ('Psychologie van een gebroken hart').I live in the Netherlands and work with clients worldwide.
Reviews
Akke-Jeanne
COACHING
- I left the coaching sessions, feeling more like myself. (Monica, 62)
- Warm, without judgment and very clear. It changed my life. (Susanne, 42)
- Working with Akke-Jeanne helped me realize that my anxiety wasn't something to fight, but a signal to pay attention to. The shadow work session was a total turning point for me. (Joost, 56)
- I have had my share of executive coaching, and I love learning new tools. However, the Jungian perspective helped me to understand the underlying themes behind my struggles. It was the real game-changer. Akke-Jeanne helped me break through barriers I didn't even realize were holding me back.TEACHING
- Akke-Jeanne's teaching made Jungian psychology come alive. She explains Jung in an easy to understand way, and showed where it is relevant to my own life. (Participant of Your Individuation course on Jung Platform)
- I have read Jung before and found it abstract, but the way Akke-Jeanne explained the individuation process and the shadow, using real-life examples, and illustrating how to apply these ideas in coaching, made it click for me. (Participant of 4 class course Jungian coaching course on Jung Platform)
- When we started, Akke-Jeanne Klerk said, 'I am going to throw you in the deep end'. And she wasn't lying! Yet, despite the intensity, she created such a safe and open atmosphere. Even in larger group discussions, I felt seen and completely comfortable sharing my thoughts. Her ability to lead a room while guiding individuals toward deep personal insights is truly rare. (Participant of Jungian Coaching training on Jung Platform)
contact me: akke-jeanne klerk
For booking a coaching session, or anything else, feel free to get in touch.
Why coaching?
Self knowledge is a gift. Knowing yourself more deeply changes everything: how you work, how you love, and how you show up in the world.Professional coaching supports leaders and professionals in developing this self-knowledge, and a more grounded way of working.Personal development coaching rooted in depth psychology helps you understand yourself at a level that creates lasting change.
Coaching and inner gold
Coaching helps old patterns lose their grip. As they do, something new has room to emerge, a deeper confidence, a clearer sense of direction, a more authentic way of being. Jung called this finding your inner gold: the potential that was always there, waiting to be lived.
Thank you
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