DR. ANNEKE J.G. VINKE is a scientist-practitioner that holds a PhD in intercountry adoptions in which she started working an academic researcher in 1992. Currently her main activities are situated in private practice. She is qualified and experienced in counseling, therapy and assessment (both civil and forensic) as well as in research, development of methods and assessment instruments. Also she is a qualified and experienced teacher, trainer and supervisor. She holds degrees in special education (orthopedagogiek), child psychology and health psychology and is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She has been trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, EMDR, Play therapy, Safe and Sound Protocol, Complex Trauma and Dissociation, Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Fase and Basis therapy.
Anneke is an expert in intercountry adoptions, foster care, (complex) trauma, dissociation, attachment and child protection issues. On all these themes she advises, publishes and gives talks, lectures and provides training. Next to her work in private practice, she is a guest lecturer at the Master Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies at Leiden University. She lectures at the RINO-Groep in Utrecht and Senior Lecturer in the Early Childhood Chronic Trauma Child and Youth course of the Trauma Academy (PAO psychology). She coordinates Sensorimotor Psychotherapy ® training for the Netherlands and conducts investigations for the NIFP as a freelance family court reporter. She is an extraordinary member of the justice section of the Raad voor de Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming (RSJ). She reviews (scientific) work of colleagues for journals and is a member of the editorial board of De Psycholoog and Adoption Quarterly.
