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Feeling isolated , Expatriate issues and Psychotherapy and Counselling support

Adjusting to life in a new place is a tedious and at times stressful experience.

 

Many of my North-American clients are surprised to find how different things are in the UK compared to home e.g. the health system, dealing with local government, recognising professional credentials, understanding people’s mentality and the local culture etc.

 

Some others, like students and academics, can find the new experience overwhelming and as a result make themselves isolated from people and social life.

 

One of the biggest adjustments in the above situations that needs recognising is the simple fact of living away from friends and family, and away from an environment that is familiar.     

 

Existential psychotherapy and counselling can support you to assess the two cultures and bring together those values that seem meaningful to you for an as smooth as possible settling down experience. It can support you through the difficult early period of making sense of e.g. university procedures and regulations while looking for a room to let, finding a job, or coping with divorce etc.

 

Clients who’ve successfully been through the psychotherapy process during such stressful times have become able to appreciate the differences between the two cultures, and some to even consider their new environment as ‘home’.

 

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