Wilco Tuinebreijer

Wilco Tuinebreijer works as a psychiatrist in Amsterdam. He has been medical director till 2019 at the GGD Amsterdam. (The Public Health Service of Amsterdam) Currently, he is working for Arkin, an Amsterdam mental health institute. His current work is constructing a city-wide mental health care network for refugees. In 2016 he founded the Beautiful Distress Foundation. Beautiful Distress strives to create more awareness and acceptance in society for the mentally ill through art projects. By removing stigmas Beautiful Distress hopes to foster understanding for the problems that patients face.