Meta Herman de Groot
Meta Herman de Groot (1975) graduated as a psychosocial therapist and child therapist after her career as a marketing communications consultant. In 2012, she started her practice as a therapist and coach for both adults and adolescents. She has a son and lives with a former advertising executive. With a background as a psychosocial therapist, child therapist, and family constellation therapist, I look at the system in which a person finds themselves. What is going on around this person, what influences their existence? My own history and the stories of my clients have taught me that life is a continuing story. Your life story and how you were raised and developed inevitably influence how you relate to life and your environment. A program with me will therefore take you from understanding the past to gaining control over the present and give a perspective of your future.
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How to deal with my little brat
When parenting meets conflict
“I have to deal with my little brat too,” says a boy when I ask him why, according to his parents, he’s behaving so miserably. His comment illustrates how the relationship between parents and children often unfolds: frustration, misunderstanding, inability, feeling unseen or unheard, and that enormous pressure to perform are ingredients for a dysfunctional or even disruptive parent-child relationship.
In recent years, therapist Meta Herman de Groot has encountered more than a thousand honest, painful, and true stories from parents and children in her practice. Behind the often-neat family facade lies a great deal of grief, from disconnected teenagers, washed-up fathers, lying mothers, and children already scarred for life. Meta exposes the harsh reality in a clear and intimate way. Not to judge or condemn, but to make tangible how complicated family life used to be and has perhaps become even more so in our current society.
How to deal with my little brat, is ultimately about hope, because the relationship with your child – no matter how disturbed it may be – always gets a new chance.
My TED Talk about attachment
Attachment is the foundation of every human being, on which you will later base your thoughts, feelings, and actions. How your relationship is with yourself and your environment.
A secure attachment provides a foundation of trust. An insecure attachment provides a foundation of mistrust.
The more we learn about attachment and how it is embedded in our being, the more we can help future generations develop secure attachments.
My mission is to raise awareness of the important life topic of attachment as much as possible.
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