# The Other Therapy > Relationship Counseling and Individual Therapy for Individuals & Couples Around the World. ## Posts - [When Therapy Does Harm: What to Know Before You Start](https://theothertherapy.com/a-therapists-lens/when-therapy-does-harm/): Therapy is having a rough showing of late. A recent Wall Street Journal article criticized therapists for encouraging family estrangement. Others have called out the dubious scientific claims behind popular modalities, the hypocrisy of therapy influencers, and the downsides of therapy. And you know what? It’s about time. It’s about time we take therapy off the high horse we’ve put it on. The idea that therapy is a magical cure-all is misleading. Therapy is a means to an end that works, or doesn’t work, to varying degrees. It is not for everybody. Not all therapy is helpful. And bad therapy […] - [Why Moving Abroad Works (Until it Doesn't)](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/why-moving-abroad-works-until-it-doesnt/): The Cost of Comfort Predictability and ease are defining features of modernity. If you do what’s asked of you – and it really isn’t all that much – things should work out ok. Your survival isn’t up for grabs, after all. And although this convenience of modern living is an important achievement, it comes with a cost: namely, the loss of spirited, fully felt, deeply inhabited aliveness. The values we are told to dedicate ourselves to – prosperity, health, security, success – are, on some level, shallow and unsatisfying. Out of this sense of dis-ease, this feeling that something is […] - [Obsession (2026) and Nice Guy Syndrome](https://theothertherapy.com/a-therapists-lens/obsession-2026-and-nice-guy-syndrome/): “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.“ Obsession is a movie about the dark side of the nice guy persona. The “nice guy” doesn’t just think of himself as kind, considerate, caring, devoted, patient, and selfless. He needs to think of himself in those ways. No other identity will do. He simply can’t imagine himself capable of hurting anybody. He cannot allow himself to see that he mistreats others. Or that he takes advantage of them. Any behavior of his that falls outside the boundaries of “nice guy” is […] - [Why Therapy Fails Expats and Digital Nomads ](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/why-therapy-fails-expats/): This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on expat and digital nomad mental health, and the finale. Catch up on Part 1: Digital Nomad Burnout: Why Freedom Feels Like a Cage, Part 2: The Expat Identity Crisis Nobody Warns You About, and Part 3: Online Therapy for Expats: Why It’s Not a Compromise. The decision to try therapy is a significant step. It takes a certain kind of honesty to say: I need help with this. So it’s frustrating when the experience falls flat. And for digital nomads, freelancers, and expats, it falls flat a lot; that is, it fails. Therapy works ,but […] - [Online Therapy for Expats](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/online-therapy-for-expats/): This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on expat and digital nomad mental health. A new post drops each week. Catch up on Part 1: Digital Nomad Burnout: Why Freedom Feels Like a Cage and Part 2: The Expat Identity Crisis Nobody Warns You About. Next up, the finale: Why Therapy Often Fails Digital Nomads and Expats. If you’re an expat or digital nomad considering therapy, you’ve probably run into the obvious problem: how do you make this work when you don’t stay in one place? The answer for most people living this way is online therapy. But it often […] - [Expat Identity Crises](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/expat-identity-crises/): This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on expat and digital nomad mental health. A new post drops each week. If you missed Part 1, start with Digital Nomad Burnout: Why Freedom Feels Like a Cage. Up next week: Online Therapy for Expats and Digital Nomads. Before you moved abroad, you probably had a firm sense of who you were and “what you were about”. Not perfectly, maybe. But strong enough. You had a role at work, a place in your social circle, and a set of cultural norms you navigated without thinking. Your identity was reinforced daily by the world […] - [Digital Nomad Burnout](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/digital-nomad-burnout/): The image is certainly a compelling one: laptop open at a beachfront cafe in Mexico, sun on your face, completely free from the 9-to-5. This – the expat, digital nomad life – is the dream. And for a growing number of people, it’s reality. Roughly 40 million professionals now work this way. But nobody puts this in the Instagram caption: up to 69% of remote workers report symptoms of burnout. Some studies put that number as high as 86%. That’s… Well, most of us. If you’re a digital nomad, freelancer, or remote entrepreneur who’s started to feel the price tags […] - [How to Choose a Therapist](https://theothertherapy.com/articles/how-to-choose-a-therapist/): You’ve decided that therapy might be beneficial to you. Odds are, this decision has been a long time coming. Well done. All the more power to you. But… Now comes the (next) hard part. What type of therapist/therapy should you be looking for? Where should you be looking? How can you trust the innumerable therapist profiles you come across as being authentic and honest? How often should you expect to go to therapy? And for how long? A month? A year? Longer? If you’re living abroad or working across time zones, these questions get even harder. You’re navigating different licensing […] - [Loneliness as an Expat: What Makes it Different and What to do About it](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/expat-loneliness/): The Comfort You Didn’t Know You Had The comfort that our familiar surroundings offer is rich and deep. Until we leave them, we rarely realize how held in place we are by their predictable, reliable web of sights, sounds, smells, and social interactions. As we’ll see, this is what expat loneliness derives from. The heroic, hopeful expat is prepared to cast aside this protective cloak of familiarity in order to embrace the unknown. They are ready — and even wanting — to feel like a fish out of water in their valiant pursuit of the great beyond: a grander, more […] - [Couples Therapy in London](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/couples-best-uk-london/): When the Career Works but the Relationship Doesn’t You both get home late again. One of you hurriedly reheats something for dinner. The other answers emails as they stand in the kitchen holding the baby. You impatiently exchange logistics with one another: tomorrow’s schedule, the thing with the school, and whether anyone has called the plumber. You’re not having the big fight. Instead, each day is full of dozens of small ones. Sharp, hurtful comments arise out of irritation and exhaustion. At some point the conversation could become a real one – one that would help you acknowledge and address […] - [Couples Therapy in Bali](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/couples-best-bali/): You’re sitting across from each other at a restaurant in Seminyak, and neither of you is saying what you think. The food hits the spot. The sunset is doing its thing. But, somewhere amongst all of that, a distance has formed between you and your partner. And you can’t quite put your finger on why that is. This evening, however, you’re determined to figure it out. You name it – the growing distance – aloud. But your effort doesn’t land. Your partner reacts poorly, and then goes quiet in a way that used to last an hour but now lasts […] - [Therapy for Expats in Bali](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/bali/): You’re at a dinner in Canggu. Everyone at the table is building something, healing something, or both. Someone turns to you and asks what brought you to Bali. You give the version of your story that sounds right. Later, on your scooter ride home, you notice you feel more alone than you did before you went out. That gap between the life you feel forced to perform and the life you’re actually living is something I hear about from my clients in Bali every week.  It’s more common than you’d think, and it’s worth paying attention to. I haven’t lived […] - [Therapy for Expats in the Gulf & Middle East](https://theothertherapy.com/psychologist/turkiye-best/): You’re at a rooftop bar in Dubai Marina on a Thursday night. The skyline is extraordinary. The drinks are expensive and plentiful. The people around you are high-earning, well-dressed, and very good at sounding like everything is fine. Later, back in your apartment, the air conditioning hums at full blast because it’s still 38 degrees outside at midnight. You’re comfortable. You’re living the high life. And yet… Something doesn’t add up. You can’t quite put your finger on what’s missing, but you sense it’s there. I work with English-speaking expats across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Greece, and Cyprus. […] - [How to Have Effective Conflict with Loved Ones in 2026](https://theothertherapy.com/articles/how-to-have-effective-conflict-with-loved-ones/): Conflict isn’t a problem. Ineffective and unskillful conflict is. Most people are unskilled at navigating conflict. Therefore, they mistakenly conclude that conflict itself is bad and needs to be avoided. This is an unfortunate conclusion. It ensures that they continue to evade conflict and, as a result, that they don’t improve their ability to manage conflict effectively. Furthermore, conflict doesn’t cease to exist because you avoid it. Instead, it gets pushed under the surface and manifests as resentment, passive-aggression, and emotional outbursts. These are the two premises you should understand before moving on: You’re now ready to learn the basics […] - [The ULTIMATE Guide to the Avoidant Attachment Style: What it is, WHY it is & What to do](https://theothertherapy.com/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-avoidant-attachment-style-what-it-is-why-it-is-what-to-do/): Table of Contents Attachment styles—better called strategies—describe the patterns by which we engage in emotionally significant relationships in order to take care of ourselves and soothe our various fears and anxieties. These strategies are formed in early childhood based on interactions with primary caregivers. They now serve as the blueprint for how we show up in present-day intimate relationships. There are four primary attachment styles, or strategies: Today, we will examine the avoidant attachment strategy in detail. What is the Avoidant Attachment Strategy? The avoidant strategy is marked by the compulsion to avoid others and create distance when intimate relationship […] - [Expat Therapy: What it is & Why it Matters](https://theothertherapy.com/therapist/best/): If you’re looking for an expat therapist, you’ve probably already noticed how hard it is to find one who gets it. Not just someone who nods along when you describe your life abroad, but somebody who understands the gap between how that life looks to outsiders and how it actually feels on the inside. That gap is an ongoing source of difficulty for many people, and most therapists don’t have the frame for working with it effectively because they haven’t lived it – that is what makes expat therapy uniquely effective. The Shadow Side of Expat Life You moved abroad […] ## Pages - [Expatriate Mental Health and Personal Crises](https://theothertherapy.com/research/expatriate-mental-health-and-personal-crises/): By Trevor Brown · May 2026 Download PDF → About this paper I wrote this paper for a graduate course in crisis intervention. The argument: expats are a population vulnerable to personal crisis in ways that look nothing like the crises experienced by refugees or economic migrants, and existing intervention frameworks aren’t equipped to address them. I propose a different approach, organized around self-determination theory. This is written for clinicians, so it’s denser than my blog. But if you’re curious about the thinking behind how I work with expats, or you’re a fellow therapist looking for a framework, this is […] - [Research](https://theothertherapy.com/research/): Research Clinical Research on Therapy, Mental Health, and Expats This is where I keep the clinical and academic research I do alongside my therapy practice. It’s written for fellow therapists and researchers, so it’s denser than my blog; but if you’re curious about the thinking behind how I work, this is where it lives. May 2026 Expatriate Mental Health and Personal Crises A graduate-level paper arguing that expats are a population vulnerable to personal crisis, and proposing an intervention framework organized around self-determination theory. 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