Aaron Platt

Therapy When You Have Just Moved Abroad

The first year abroad has a shape almost nobody is warned about: arrival adrenaline, a competent middle, and then a drop, somewhere around month four, that feels like failure and is actually physics. This is therapy for that year.

Is it normal to feel worse a few months after moving abroad?

Common enough that the adjustment literature treats it as the expected curve rather than the exception. The early logistics phase suppresses feeling; when it ends, the losses register all at once. Normal does not mean ignorable; it means workable.

Can therapy help when the problem is just that I have no friends here yet?

Loneliness after relocation is rarely just logistics, and the way someone goes about being new, what they risk, what they avoid, what stories they tell themselves about rejection, is exactly the kind of pattern this work makes visible and changeable.

We just moved and my relationship is straining. Individual or couples work?

Either entry works; the load usually shows in the couple first. If both partners can name the strain, couples sessions get at it fastest. If one partner is carrying it privately, individual work is the honest place to start.

What Clients Say

“I came in thinking I knew what my issues were. I’d been over them a hundred times. But those were just the things I could already see. Aaron helped me notice what I couldn’t, and that’s where everything actually started to change.”

— M.J.

“I didn’t think online therapy could really work. How do you feel a connection through a screen? But I’ve done in-person therapy before, and honestly, I’ve felt more understood by Aaron than by any therapist I’ve sat across from. He listens in a way that’s hard to describe until you experience it.”

— T.L.

“A few years ago I suddenly developed prolonged panic attacks but couldn’t begin to understand what had caused them. Having been in therapy in the past, and being a counseling intern student, I felt I had exhausted my resources trying to figure out “What is wrong with me?” I can honestly say Aaron provides a form of counseling that is difficult to find anywhere else regarding efficacy. Not only has his approach been effective, but he also has provided me a safe space to explore aspects about myself I may not otherwise have felt able to. I cannot recommend him enough as he has helped me feel more myself than ever before.”

— K.R.

“I’d been in and out of therapy for years. Different therapists, different approaches, none of it really stuck. Aaron helped me understand more in a few months than all of them combined. And he talked to me like a normal person, not like all this weird therapy-speak.”

— S.A.

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Therapy When You Have Just Moved Abroad

What Clients Say

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