Living Abroad, Finding Your Place
A move abroad can open up a new chapter without immediately feeling like home. Familiar reference points disappear, friendships take time, and it can be surprisingly difficult to explain what feels missing.
You may be settling into a demanding role, supporting a partner’s move or reconsidering your own direction. Therapy offers space for the parts of expat life that do not always fit the story of an exciting opportunity.
Belonging, Relationships and Change
Sessions can focus on loneliness, cultural adjustment, identity and the strain relocation can place on relationships. The aim is to help you feel more grounded and connected, without expecting you to choose between your old life and your new one.
Where the move has brought relationship tensions into focus, couples therapy may also offer useful support.
Returning Home Is a Transition Too
Coming back to the UK can bring its own surprises. You may have changed, while others expect you to pick up where you left off. Making sense of that gap can be just as important as adjusting to life abroad.
Isobel is a UK-licensed Clinical and Counselling Psychologist, a Chartered Psychologist and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California.
With Swedish and British roots and three decades spent in the United States, Isobel brings personal experience of life across cultures alongside her clinical work.
In-person sessions are available in London’s Harley Street district. Online sessions depend on your location and applicable professional requirements. Get in touch to discuss availability and the support you are looking for.