Therapy for expats
Maastricht & Online
Whether you moved here last year or have lived in the Netherlands for many years, building a life abroad shapes you in ways that aren't always easy to articulate and that the people around you don't always understand.
I offer culturally sensitive therapy to expats who are feeling stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or simply want to get to know themselves better.
Some of the themes people bring to therapy:
Anxiety and low mood
Stress and burnout
Self-esteem and shame
Grief and loss
Relationship difficulties
Life transitions
Existential questions
Expat experience: adjustment, identity, belonging, loneliness and more.
You don't need a clear ‘problem’ to start therapy. Sometimes, a sense that something isn't quite right, or simply wanting to know yourself better, is the place to start.
My approach
My approach is warm, explorative and rooted in Gestalt therapy, a relational and experiential form of therapy that focuses on developing awareness and increasing your sense of choice and agency.
You might come to therapy because the patterns that once made sense now keep you stuck or cause suffering. I'm also curious about how your wider environment and the stories you've absorbed about yourself, others and the world, shape how you are and feel today. Together, we bring those patterns, stories and experiences into awareness and explore new ways of being and relating.
I work in an integrative way, drawing on other modalities when I think they might be helpful, including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and therapeutic art.
What it’s like to work with me
❋ Sessions are collaborative and we work at your pace.
❋ My focus is on meeting you as a whole person and creating a space that respects your lived experience, welcomes difference, and supports your sense of choice and agency.
❋ My role isn't to have the answers - it's to be a curious, caring and steady presence as you find your own.
❋ We talk and we might also try things out together (e.g. a grounding practice, a creative exercise, or an experiment with movement or role-play).
❋ I'll often invite you to notice what's happening for you right now - in your body, your feelings, your thoughts.
❋ The work can be gentle and it can be hard, it can bring relief and it can bring discomfort, it can be serious and it can be playful. There's space for all of it.