Online Counselling in English
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Living in another language can change how you feel, not just how you speak.

Challenges Expats Often Face

Living abroad can be enriching, but it also brings a unique set of emotional challenges.

Many expats in France find themselves grappling with cultural adjustment, language barriers, loneliness or a loss of familiar support networks.

The move itself can stir up questions about identity and belonging, while even returning home can be unexpectedly disorienting — what once felt familiar may now feel foreign.

These transitions often surface deeper feelings around home, family, and self, and therapy can offer a grounding space to explore them.

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Therapy helps you explore emotions, recognise patterns and regain stability.

Crossing Borders is Never Easy

I specialise in working with expats (as well as young adults living in France) who feel emotionally out of step with themselves after moving to or living in a new country - or building a life in a second language.

My aim is to help individuals understand the underlying — or unconscious — reasons for the way they feel and behave.

In addition, my aim is to provide a reflective, steady space where you can understand yourself more fully and begin to move toward lasting change.

This is a thoughtful therapeutic space tailored to individual needs.

It goes without saying that these essions are confidential, reflective and adapted to the client’s age and developmental stage.

I work with expats who experience:

  • Loss of identity and sense of belonging
  • Loneliness and social isolation
  • Cultural and language barriers
  • Relationship strain
  • Reverse culture shock at the thought of returning home

I also see individuals experiencing friendship difficulties, or the challenges of adjusting to a new country or language.

Living in another country can intensify pressures that were previously manageable.

Counselling for Change

I am a psychodynamic counsellor - and expat - who trained in psychodynamic counselling at the University of London.

I offering remote therapy in English for individuals living abroad.

My work is grounded in the belief that our past experiences shape the way we relate to ourselves and the people around us in the present.

Together, as therapist and client, we explore the emotional patterns, unconscious processes and internal conflicts that may be influencing your current difficulties.

My aim is to provide a reflective, steady space where you can understand yourself more fully and begin to move toward lasting change.

Psychodynamic counselling offers a space for you to explore why certain emotions or reactions keep returning, even when you want things to be different.

It gives you time to reflect on what’s happening beneath the surface, rather than focusing on techniques, performance strategies or coaching.

If you find that some thoughts or feelings come more easily in English and others in French, bilingual counselling offers a space where you don’t have to choose.

Common Difficulties for People Living Abroad

  • Language barriers
  • Anxiety, low mood or emotional overwhelm
  • Loneliness, homesickness or isolation
  • Friendship or relationship difficulties
  • Identity confusion or feeling “out of place”
  • Stress related to transitions or cultural adjustment
  • Homesickness
  • Building a social circle
  • Changes in appetite or daily routines

Moving to another country can intensify pressures that were previously manageable.

Counselling Sessions

Sessions are offered privately in English and/or French.

This work is not reimbursed through the French healthcare system and is independent of French medical or psychological services.

Each session is held online and typically lasts 50 minutes.

When appropriate, I can help clients consider whether additional local support might be beneficial.

About Me

I first started working with clients "remotely" over 20 years ago - first by letter (!) and subsequently email. As well as having had a career in business, I have practised as a therapist in a number of universities and in private practice in the UK and Paris.

For Young Adulets

Young people navigating different cultures, languages or school systems often benefit from a stable, non‑judgemental space to reflect.

Counselling can offer that stability during times of transition.