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Therapy reflections: Why do certain clients not want to talk in their native language in therapy?

#multilingualism in #therapy Curiously, certain clients prefer to speak a different language than their mother tongue (e.g. English...

How is moving linked to one's attachment style and sense of belonging?

After 2.5 years our study has been published in the Journal of Community Psychology. We compared the reports of 465 students....

We're conducting an online study on Belonging and Attachment in International Students

Update July 2022: Our study has been published. Update 2020: The study cannot be filled out anymore. After gathering hundreds of...

Helping your kids adjust moving abroad

I was Interviewed by Katie Russell from The Telegraph on how to help your kids adjust when moving abroad: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/exp...

When our emotions get the best of us: understanding your emotions and how to change them.

Emotions are not best understood by rationally understanding them, but by fully feeling them and then get to the bottom of things.

Meeting my Gurus: a Review of the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference (Part 1)

I had the opportunity to go to the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference where the most well known American psychotherapists and researchers

Depression: How to Break Free from a Depressive Cycle

Winter. That great gloomy period of the year, where people get to meet their loved one's. For expats it can be hard to remain positive,...

Stress and Anxiety in Young Teenagers: what is it and what can we do about it?

First of all: do you remember anxious moments when you were a teenager? What were the things that stressed you? When asked, most adults...

Wampold: what makes Psychotherapy effective?

Contrary to what many people believe, there is not one psychotherapy that is more effective than others (Wampold et al.). The main...

10 practical ways to handle stress

I often get asked how to deal better with stress. It is one of the most familiar experiences to us all, yet can become a severe issue...