RELOCATION THERAPY
I help my clients navigate through the murky waters of moving and help teach them tools to adapt and deal with any type of situation that life throughs at them. I help them gain insight and new perspectives that will help them integrate into new cultures or places while providing psychological support and teach coping skills with my original program.
What is Relocation therapy?
Moving to a new place can be overwhelming especially during these tumultuous post Covid-19 times. The stress of changing places and trying to integrate into a new culture could be debilitating. I have identified through personal research, 5 stages of adjustment that occurs when moving. Each stage is accompanied by common negative traits that we will address. My six-month program will guide and support you through the 5 stages and their negative traits. I will teach you tools that help you cope as well as provide support. The stages are as follow:
5 Stages of Transplantation
01 — Excitement Stage
This stage can start before leaving your place of origin. People become elated and excited about going to a new place. This stage lasts from approximately 3 months to a year.
02 — Fear/Anxiety Stage
This stage is when excitement is no longer felt and some anxiety is still present but anger begins to be displayed. Feeling angry about how things function in their new place of residence. Comparing it to their place of origin. This stage lasts approximately from 1.5 years to 3 years.
03 — Anger/resentement Stage
This stage is when excitement is no longer felt and some anxiety is still present but anger begins to be displayed. Feeling angry about how things function in their new place of residence. Comparing it to their place of origin. This stage lasts approximately from 1.5 years to 3 years.
04 — Acceptance & Integration Stage
This stage is when the new culture is embraced as equal, even when it conflicts with the values and traditions of their place of origin. Also this is the stage that a person has learned enough of the local language to be able to function if the move was to a country with a different language.
05 — Assimiliation Stage
This stage is when the ways of the new place of residence is accepted and a person becomes a full part of the community. In this stage assimilation implies that immigrants to foreign countries, through education and experience, can earn their way into the culture of their new home and be seamlessly accepted as full members of their new community. This is what we all strive for as expatriates.