Welcome to the website of Van Genderen Opleidingen BV, internationally known as the Dutch Institute for Schema therapey. The Dutch Institute for Schema Therapy is the oldest and largest provider of education in the field of schema therapy. Van Genderen Opleidingen was founded by Hannie van Genderen in 2000 and taken over by Remco van der Wijngaart in 2022.

Remco van der Wijngaart and Hannie van Genderen were trained as schema therapists by Jeffrey Young in 1996. From 2006, they also trained as group schema therapists with Farrel and Shaw. All of this inspired them to not only become passionate schema therapists, but also to teach this therapy model.

Hannie van Genderen started teaching schema therapy in 2000. This quickly grew into the first and (still) largest teaching institution in the field of schema therapy in the Netherlands: Van Genderen Opleidingen BV.

Remco taught extensively for Van Genderen Opleidingen from those early years in the Netherlands. In addition, he started teaching abroad in 2010. This grew into an international training institute: the Dutch Institute for Schema Therapy.

Hannie transferred her company to Remco in 2022. The next step in this process is to merge the two successful training institutes, Van Genderen Opleidingen and the Dutch Institute for Schema Therapy. This calls for a new name and a new website. As of September, the organization will be called:

• In the Netherlands: the Nederlands Instituut voor Schematherapie (Dutch Institute for Schema Therapy)
• Internationally: the Dutch institute for Schema Therapy

Our team of 14 expert and passionate teachers will continue to provide training in the field of schema therapy in the future, as we have done for the past 25 years, both at home and abroad.