The Expat Therapist: Navigating Mental Health
"The Expat Therapist: Navigating Mental Health Abroad" is a podcast that offers insights, advice, and strategies for expats needing guidance with mental health struggles on their journey and guidance for individuals anticipating a move abroad. Hosted by a licensed clinical therapist and fellow expat, the show aims to help listeners overcome the unique challenges of moving and living abroad and achieve greater well-being and happiness.
Episodes
93 episodes
Sometimes We Need More than Another Networking Event
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Why Expat Women Need More Than Community (and How You Can Get That)
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The Power of Being Seen: Why We Need Other Women
✨ Join the 7-Day Become Her Abroad Challenge here!Sometimes we don’t need advice. We just need someone to say, “Me too.”In this episode, we’re exploring the power of...
Why You Feel Lonely Even When You’re Not Alone
✨ Join the 7-Day Become Her Abroad Challenge here!You can be surrounded by people and still feel incredibly lonely.In this episode, we’re talking about the kind of l...
September Hits Different as An Expat
✨ Join the 7-Day Become Her Abroad Challenge here!Summer ends, routines return, school starts, visitors leave—and suddenly, real life feels a little heavier.In this ...
When Moving Abroad Drowns Out Your Intuition
✨ Join the 7-Day Become Her Abroad Challenge here!Moving abroad can create so much internal noise that it becomes difficult to hear yourself clearly. Your thoughts, emotion...
Becoming Her Stories: Lara's Life Abroad after 6 months Turned Into 8 Years.
✨ Join the 7-Day Become Her Abroad Challenge here!What does it really take to build a life that feels like home in a country that once felt completely unfamiliar?In ...
Becoming Her Stories: Meg's Journey Through Languages, Identity & Life Abroad
✨ Join the 7-Day Become Her Abroad Challenge here!What happens when you've lived in multiple countries, speak multiple languages, and have had to reinvent yourself over and...
Ariel, What The Heck IS an Identity Shift?
✨ Join the 7-Day Challenge here!The truth is, identity shifts are a natural part of being human—but they're rarely talked about. And when they happen, it's easy to assume s...
7 Things I Wish Someone Had Taught Me Before I Moved Abroad
If I could go back and sit down with the version of myself before I boarded that plane to Spain, there are seven things I would tell her.And it isn't about the logistics. Yup, you guessed it. It's about identity.Becaus...
084 Avoiding My Finances (And What It Was Really About)
🎙 Join me live on Friday, June 19th for my free masterclass, Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Abroad, where we’ll dive deeper into the emotional, psychological, and identity shifts that happen after moving abroad—and how to begin ...
083 Your Body Remembers: Trauma, Identity Shifts & Living Abroad
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082 The Netflix Movie Version of My Marriage Abroad
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Why Surface Level Healing Isn't Working For You Anymore
Schedule your 30-minute Clarity Call with me here! And if you’re craving community and conversations around the emotional side of expat life, come join us insi...
080 Q&A from The FB Expat Women Community
I asked expat women in my FB Group Community (Join Here!) what they’re really struggling with right now…And the answers?
079 I LOVE MY LIFE ABROAD...so why do I feel like this?
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREYou built the life you once dreamed about.So why does it feel like something’s missing?In this episode, we dive into a quiet b...
078 A TCK’s Perspective: My Son on Living Between Spain and the U.S.
This episode is a little different… and one I’ve been really excited to share.Today, I’m sitting down with my son for an honest, unfiltered conversation about what it’s actually like growing up between countries — specifically between Sp...
077 Why Expats Struggle to Ask for Help (and How to Change It)
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREAsking for help sounds simple… until you’re living abroad.In this episode, we’re unpacking one of the most common — and least talked ...
076 The Reality of a Bilingual Household as an Expat Mom
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREIn our home, I speak English, my husband speaks Spanish, and together we move fluidly between languages — with Valenciano layered in through...
075 I Lost My Confidence Abroad but Here's How I Got It Back
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREHappy FALLAS WEEK 🧨🎇🎆For anyone who’s never experienced it, Fallas is one of the biggest and most iconic celebrations in Valencia, Sp...
074 When Expat Women Think They're Depressed
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREThere’s a quiet question many expat women ask themselves at some point:“Am I depressed?”Life abroad stops feeling light. You f...
073 Why Expat Life Gets Hard Around Year 3—and How It’s Actually Growth
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREMost expat women don’t move back home because they failed.They move back because they hit a phase no one prepared them for.Aro...
072 Why Self-Aware Expat Women Feel Disoriented Abroad — and the 3 Phases That Bring Them Back to Themselves
✨🧘♀️ Becoming Her Abroad - APPLY HEREIf you’re a self-aware expat woman and you’ve been feeling disoriented, expanded, or like you’ve quietly outgrown the version of yourself wh...
071 I Almost Lost Everything… And That’s When I Knew I Was Home
Expat woman needing mental health support or guidance abroad? Schedule your free 30-minute consultation call here.In this episode, I share what it was...
070 The Guilt of Relief: Americans Living Abroad
Living abroad as an American right now comes with a complicated mix of emotions. Relief. Guilt. Fear. Gratitude. And a deep concern for the people we love who are still back home.In this episode, I speak honestly about what it feels like...