Therapy in English, for people living far from home
For expats, immigrants, international students and anyone building a life in a country that is not the one they grew up in. Sessions by video call, at a time that works in your time zone.
No commitment. You ask, I answer, and you decide in your own time.
The tiredness nobody names
From the outside, it looks like an adventure, or a success. From the inside, it often feels different. You spend the day functioning in a language that is not quite yours. You are competent at work and a beginner at ordinary life: the doctor, the bank, the forms, the small talk you never fully get.
The people who know you best are asleep when you need them, or awake when you are too tired to talk. Weddings, birthdays and funerals happen without you. Your parents are getting older on a screen. And there is often a guilt that goes both ways: for having left, and for not being happier where you are.
None of this is a sign that you made the wrong choice. It is what it costs to live between two places, and it deserves a space where it can be said out loud, without translating yourself first.
The man who abdicates himself to fit into the world ends up a stranger everywhere.
No longer from there, not quite from here
Moving countries changes more than your address. The way you speak, dress, joke and even argue slowly shifts to fit the new place. Going back home for a visit starts to feel strange too. It is easy to end up adapting so well that you lose track of who is doing the adapting.
In therapy, the move is not treated as a problem to fix, and adapting is not the goal in itself. We look at what this change means in your life: what you left behind, what you are building, what you gave up to fit in, and what you want to keep. The work starts from your experience, not from a theory about how expats are supposed to feel.
When the relationship carries everything
Often one partner moved for the other's job, studies or dream. Far from family and old friends, the couple becomes each other's entire support network, and the relationship ends up carrying a weight it was never meant to carry alone. Old tensions get louder, and new ones appear: who gave up more, whose life this really is.
Couples therapy offers a space where neither of you has to be right, to look at what is happening between you. Sessions are with both of you, by video call, in the same room or each from wherever you are.
How it works from wherever you are
- By video call, on Google Meet, from a computer or phone. Nothing to install.
- In your time zone. The booking calendar shows open slots already converted to your local time.
- Individual sessions last 45 minutes, at 70 euros. Couples sessions last 50 minutes, at 80 US dollars.
- Payment is by card at the moment of booking, from any country.
- In English or Portuguese, whichever feels more like home.
You can read more about the process on How it works, or about me on About me.
I am a clinical psychologist registered under CRP 05/83313 and practise under that professional regulation, wherever my clients live. Some countries have their own rules about receiving therapy from a professional registered abroad, so it is worth checking the rules where you live.
Therapy sessions do not cover emergencies. If you are in crisis or thinking about taking your own life, please do not wait for a session. Call your local emergency number, or find a crisis line in your country at findahelpline.com.
You do not have to have it all figured out
Pick a time that suits you, or message me first if you would rather talk before booking. Asking commits you to nothing.