 Later she worked as a psychiatrist for children in Assen and Groningen (the Netherlands).During the thirties, she befriended J.C. Bloem, Adriaan Roland Holst, Albert van Dalsum, Victor van Vriesland, Titus Leeser and many others at the 'salon artistique' hosted by the lawyer Harro Bouman and his wife Carina Bouman-Hofstede Crull.It was in 1939 that she married Jan Droogleever Fortuyn, who was to become a professor in neurology.