Cross-Cultural Counseling

Moving to a different country than your home country and being part of a multicultural/multiethnic family is a very personal journey. Migration can be very stressful and involves profound losses. However, as we are able to integrate different cultures and come to a peaceful place as whom you become, it can also be such a unique experience and an opportunity of growth as a human being, and even contribute to developing additional life and professional skills, very appreciated in particular in a globalized world.  

Cross-cultural counseling can provide a safe space to integrate our past and present stories and allow us to integrate our experiences living in different places, as we search for our new identity. As an immigrant, I can be empathetic and understand your experience, and share my personal and professional knowledge about this journey and the steps towards developing a feeling of being at home again.

I can help you with the following areas in cross-cultural counseling:

• Life coaching to adapt to the new culture in the areas of relationships and professional life.
• Relationships between bicultural couples and/or multicultural/multiethnic families.
• Raising a child in a multicultural environment/family.
• Experience as a Third Culture Kid.
• Identity changes (including not belonging to the culture where you live and also feeling as a stranger in your own home country)
• Major life transitions away from your home country (engagement & marriage, becoming a new mom, death of a loved one, or graduating from school and beginning a new career).
• Issues related to trauma and abuse within the context of vulnerability as an immigrant (such as lacking documents, applying for citizenship etc).
• Issues affecting first generation adults and children, and their parents. 
  

I offer counseling in Spanish, English and Portuguese.