Therapy for Expats in Miami-Dade, FL:
Virtual counseling and in-person therapy to achieve family peace and happiness in a foreign country
You need to feel supported by your family to succeed in your career.
You moved to the US with your family a year ago, and it has been hard to find yourself in your new life. Although you feel a lot of anxiety, you feel that you are in your best professional phase. However, at home things are not so good. Your spouse does not feel happy, and you think that she is not happy with your professional achievements either.
She keeps telling you that she is stuck, trapped, and unhappy inside the house. She has applied for several jobs but has never got any reply, and it makes her feel depressed and in doubt about her own identity and self-worth. You try to motivate her, but she sees it as a threat. She misses her family in her home country and keeps blaming you for not paying attention to what she feels or what she says.
You are getting into fights all the time, which makes you feel even more resentful and distant from one another. The more she complains the less you want to come back home. Then, you stay long hours at work as your house no longer feels homey. She threats to divorce you and to leave the USA, and it makes the kids very ambivalent and anxious.
You feel desperate when she threatens you as you do not want to divorce. You do not know how to keep a decent conversation with her, and you withdraw. The frequent fights at home are negatively affecting your productivity at work and the kids’ school performance, and it really concerns you.
You want to understand how to be more supportive to her, but you do not know how. Rather, you both are getting bitter, distant, and disconnected. You start to question if you did the right thing in coming to the US.
You want to feel understood and supported in your new career moment and to see them happy!
Living as an expatriate for 20 years and moving to several countries, I can deeply understand how stressful life can be when we move to another country. These changes can bring a lot of anxiety and stress among the family members. Many times, couples feel anxious, depressed, not heard, disconnected, and trapped in their new life situation. However, it does not need to be this way. Living abroad is supposed to be a family project, and each part needs to equally commit so this project succeeds.
Expatriate life can be an incredible experience!
I help individuals, couples, and families to have a happier and rewarding life in the new place they chose to live.
When in therapy with me, you will be able to better understand and hear one another so that your needs are fulfilled. I also help couples and families to be more supportive, understanding, and caring to one another, and consequently to foster closeness and positive feelings among them. Upon termination, individuals often say that they feel more positive, heard, empowered, and with renewed energy to move on.
When working in one-to-one with professionals, my specialties include career counseling, work life balance, retirement counseling, and hypnotherapy.
Ready for expatriate counseling?
If you are ready to embark on an adventurous and promising life as an expatriate, contact me for a 15-min consultation and learn the best way I can help you!