Expatriation

A space to navigate the ups and downs of expatriate life, reconnect with your footing, and make sense of your experience, in French or English

Support for expatriates in Paris and Noisy-le-Sec

As a Franco-British national, I also support the expat community living in Paris or Seine-Saint-Denis, in French or English.

Moving to a new country is often an enriching experience, but it can also feel disorienting. Daily life may become complicated: navigating administrative procedures, adapting to new cultural habits, or feeling lost and out of place. On a deeper level, being away from familiar surroundings, your native language, or your usual support network can intensify the challenge.

Living between two cultures can unsettle your sense of balance, yet it is also a deeply human experience that raises important questions about identity, belonging, and meaning.

Having a foot in both cultures myself, I understand these transitions and tensions.

My role is to offer a space where you can express yourself freely, in your language, and receive sensitive, understanding support as you navigate this journey.

Living between two cultures can unsettle your sense of balance, yet it is also a deeply human experience that raises important questions about identity, belonging, and meaning.

Having a foot in both cultures myself, I understand these transitions and tensions.

My role is to offer a space where you can express yourself freely, in your language, and receive sensitive, understanding support as you navigate this journey.

Living Between Two Cultures

Moving to a new country can be enriching, but it can also be destabilizing. When your familiar anchors shift, a sense of disconnection sets in. Gestalt therapy provides a space to explore your experience in the moment, make sense of it, and regain more solid footing.

Finding your place,
between two worlds.

How Gestalt Therapy Can Support You?

Gestalt therapy places great importance on your lived experience in the present moment, your emotions, bodily sensations, and the way you relate to the world.

During expatriation, these familiar reference points can be deeply unsettled: what was once familiar becomes uncertain, and new ways of being and connecting emerge. Gestalt provides a space to explore your experience, make sense of it, and gradually regain stronger footing within yourself and your environment.

In this supportive space, we focus on what is happening for you in the moment: your emotions, questions, sensations, and the ways you engage with your new surroundings. Expatriation can be a period of great vulnerability, but also an opportunity to reconnect with and better understand yourself.

In this supportive space, we focus on what is happening for you in the moment: your emotions, questions, sensations, and the ways you engage with your new surroundings. Expatriation can be a period of great vulnerability, but also an opportunity to reconnect with and better understand yourself.

What We Can Work on Together

A gradual, supportive approach to regain bearings, meaning, and stability.

Reference points & feeling out of place

Name what is changing, what is missing, and what creates the sense of being “in between” or out of sync.

Emotions & loneliness

Welcome what is present, sadness, fatigue, anger, isolation, and rediscover a more lively way of connecting.

Identity, belonging, & meaning

Explore questions of identity and belonging, and make sense of what you are experiencing in this new context.

Adjustment & daily grounding

Rebuild practical anchors to live fully here, at your own pace, without forcing yourself to “adapt too quickly.”
I’m here for you

Regain your bearings, even far from home.

Contact me, and we’ll arrange a time to meet, put words to your experience, and explore how I can support you.

Session format

I am available at:

Noisy-le-Sec:

89 rue Jean Jaures 93130 Noisy-le-Sec

RER E : Station Noisy-le-Sec à 3 min

In Paris :

39 boulevard de Magenta 75010 Paris

Jacques Bonsergent metro station (Line 5)

Or via video conference

45-minute session: €70