"Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards."
- Kierkegaard
Therapy with Multilinguals
“After all, a foreign language is like art - an alternative reality, a potential world. Once it is discovered, one can no longer go back to monolinguistic existence.”- Svetlana Boym
About me
Multilingual clients face a complex choice when they consider therapy. Languages we speak make us who we are. In which language should one speak with their therapist? With some of my clients we share a mother tongue, with others a couple of second languages. But no matter whether we are in this lucky situation or not, I will always be listening and making sure your “other” language is welcomed to the room.
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"UNLOCKED tells the stories of ten different people in therapy in various cultural and geographical contexts – from Saudi Arabia to Venice or New York."
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"This book aids therapists in understanding displacement-related issues, benefiting clients like emigrants, expats, migrants, and digital nomads who've relocated to new cultures."
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Can Chatbot Therapy Replace Authentic Connection?
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Internal Emigration & Online Therapy
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“I was born in the wrong place,” one of my online clients told me. She is someone with fidgety feet and a knotty relationship with her...
Why Therapists Choose Online Therapy for Themselves
June 28, 2023 /// No Comments
More and more fellow therapists contact me to seek online therapy for themselves. They come from various...
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I offer therapy to adults, with a particular focus on displacement--related issues, such as loss, anxiety, loneliness, identity confusion, and shame.
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Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories
This book provides therapists with an understanding of displacement-related issues to help them better serve potential clients such as emigrants, expats, migrants, digital nomads – all those who have left their original home country behind and moved to a different culture and place.
With the spread of communication technologies, psychotherapists are expanding their practice to the online setting and into the unfamiliar waters of transcultural counselling with highly mobile and displaced individuals. Building on her research, the author brings up new concepts in therapy practice with emigrants, calling for a displacement-focused, transcultural approach for a modern psychotherapy practice, blended or online, in a world shaped by ubiquitous displacement. Giré’s own experience of relocations and multicultural families have helped her develop a personal approach to universal topics of the therapeutic endeavor, such as displacement, multilingualism, and shame.
Meeting displaced individuals’ mental health needs is a priority for the mental health community. Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals will be of interest to all therapists working online with this client group, and for all those interested in psychotherapy (therapists or not), who want to learn about the psychological issues created by displacement.
With the spread of communication technologies, psychotherapists are expanding their practice to the online setting and into the unfamiliar waters of transcultural counselling with highly mobile and displaced individuals. Building on her research, the author brings up new concepts in therapy practice with emigrants, calling for a displacement-focused, transcultural approach for a modern psychotherapy practice, blended or online, in a world shaped by ubiquitous displacement. Giré’s own experience of relocations and multicultural families have helped her develop a personal approach to universal topics of the therapeutic endeavor, such as displacement, multilingualism, and shame.
Meeting displaced individuals’ mental health needs is a priority for the mental health community. Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals will be of interest to all therapists working online with this client group, and for all those interested in psychotherapy (therapists or not), who want to learn about the psychological issues created by displacement.
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Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals: A Guide for In-Person and Online Practitioners
This book provides therapists with an understanding of displacement-related issues to help them better serve potential clients such as emigrants, expats, migrants, digital nomads – all those who have left their original home country behind and moved to a different culture and place.
With the spread of communication technologies, psychotherapists are expanding their practice to the online setting and into the unfamiliar waters of transcultural counselling with highly mobile and displaced individuals. Building on her research, the author brings up new concepts in therapy practice with emigrants, calling for a displacement-focused, transcultural approach for a modern psychotherapy practice, blended or online, in a world shaped by ubiquitous displacement. Giré’s own experience of relocations and multicultural families have helped her develop a personal approach to universal topics of the therapeutic endeavor, such as displacement, multilingualism, and shame.
Meeting displaced individuals’ mental health needs is a priority for the mental health community. Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals will be of interest to all therapists working online with this client group, and for all those interested in psychotherapy (therapists or not), who want to learn about the psychological issues created by displacement.
With the spread of communication technologies, psychotherapists are expanding their practice to the online setting and into the unfamiliar waters of transcultural counselling with highly mobile and displaced individuals. Building on her research, the author brings up new concepts in therapy practice with emigrants, calling for a displacement-focused, transcultural approach for a modern psychotherapy practice, blended or online, in a world shaped by ubiquitous displacement. Giré’s own experience of relocations and multicultural families have helped her develop a personal approach to universal topics of the therapeutic endeavor, such as displacement, multilingualism, and shame.
Meeting displaced individuals’ mental health needs is a priority for the mental health community. Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals will be of interest to all therapists working online with this client group, and for all those interested in psychotherapy (therapists or not), who want to learn about the psychological issues created by displacement.
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