Expat spouse Certified Coach
My role is to support you to transform your expat experience into a springboard to reconnect with yourself and lay the foundations for an aligned life project in 4 months.
My journey
In 2021, I arrived in Luxembourg with my husband and my children, aged 7 and 4, exhausted after 10 years as a working expat mom in London and by Covid. Once there, I realized I had greatly underestimated the impact of relocating to a completely unfamiliar country, and my body eventually made sure I understood. The verdict was clear: parental burnout and thyroid cancer.
With no support network, I decided to undertake deep introspective work to better understand the causes of this situation and how to seize this expat experience as an opportunity to build a life that truly reflected who I am (even though the country I found myself in wasn’t, at first glance, the country of my dreams).
I then put in place very concrete actions to transform my daily life:
- I started psychotherapy;
- I wrote a memoir about my parental burnout (“Bye Bye Wonder Woman. What if you were experiencing parental burnout?” only available in French for now);
- I enrolled in a mindfulness meditation program (MBSR protocol);
- I joined a walking group;
- I trained to become a certified coach;
- and I created two walking groups for expat women in Luxembourg.
Today, drawing on both my personal experience and my coaching certification, I am deeply committed to supporting expat women.
My journey
In 2021, I arrived in Luxembourg with my husband and my children, aged 7 and 4, exhausted after 10 years as a working expat mom in London and by Covid. Once there, I realized I had greatly underestimated the impact of relocating to a completely unfamiliar country, and my body eventually made sure I understood. The verdict was clear: parental burnout and thyroid cancer.
With no support network, I decided to undertake deep introspective work to better understand the causes of this situation and how to seize this expat experience as an opportunity to build a life that truly reflected who I am (even though the country I found myself in wasn’t, at first glance, the country of my dreams).
I then put in place very concrete actions to transform my daily life:
- I started psychotherapy;
- I wrote a memoir about my parental burnout (“Bye Bye Wonder Woman. What if you were experiencing parental burnout?” only available in French for now);
- I enrolled in a mindfulness meditation program (MBSR protocol);
- I joined a walking group;
- I trained to become a certified coach;
- and I created two walking groups for expat women in Luxembourg.
Today, drawing on both my personal experience and my coaching certification, I am deeply committed to supporting expat women.
Why women?
Because 84% of trailing spouses are women (InterNations, 2015).
They manage the everyday life, the children and the unexpected mishappenings, in a country they don’t yet know. They are the guarantors of everyone’s balance and well-being, from the moment of arrival and throughout the entire assignment abroad. And yet, they remain the great forgotten ones of international mobility programs.
Isolation, marital strain, loss of identity and feeling of being no more than “the wife of,” difficulty maintaining family cohesion…The challenges the trailing spouse faces are numerous and their lack of integration is the main reason expatriations fail. So supporting women to find their own place means ensuring the success of the project, the couple and the family.
A tested method adapted to trailing spouses
I am convinced that a career transition cannot be separated from emotional well-being. That is why I always begin by working on women’s personal balance, through the introduction of restorative routines, before discussing their professional aspirations with them.
My three-step approach (Assessing, Grounding, Launching) is designed to support them:
face the challenges of expatriation;
regain their personal and professional balance abroad;
set clear goals for themselves and for their international career transition;
ease their adaptation to a new culture and a new country;
I use personalised one-on-one coaching tools and my on-the-ground knowledge of Luxembourg.
Kindness, authenticity, autonomy and practical solutions are the foundations of my support and of my practice as a coach for expat women.
A tested method adapted to trailing spouses
I am convinced that a career transition cannot be separated from emotional well-being. That is why I always begin by working on women’s personal balance, through the introduction of restorative routines, before discussing their professional aspirations with them.
My three-step approach (Assessing, Grounding, Launching) is designed to support them:
face the challenges of expatriation;
regain their personal and professional balance abroad;
set clear goals for themselves and for their international career transition;
ease their adaptation to a new culture and a new country;
I use personalised one-on-one coaching tools and my on-the-ground knowledge of Luxembourg.
Kindness, authenticity, autonomy and practical solutions are the foundations of my support and of my practice as a coach for expat women.
A tested method adapted to trailing spouses
I am convinced that a career transition cannot be separated from emotional well-being. That is why I always begin by working on women’s personal balance, through the introduction of restorative routines, before discussing their professional aspirations with them.
My three-step approach (Assessing, Grounding, Launching) is designed to support them:
face the challenges of expatriation;
regain their personal and professional balance abroad;
set clear goals for themselves and for their international career transition;
ease their adaptation to a new culture and a new country;
I use personalised one-on-one coaching tools and my on-the-ground knowledge of Luxembourg.
Kindness, authenticity, autonomy and practical solutions are the foundations of my support and of my practice as a coach for expat women.
Why my mission is close to my heart
I believe in putting people back at the heart of the expatriation process by giving trailing spouses the place they deserve. Expat women aren’t just going through an international move. They face many challenges and go through a genuine identity crisis. Yet how can the success and longevity of an expatriation as a couple or family be ensured without integration support or dedicated guidance for the spouse?
I know how hard it is to feel “besides your own life” when you arrive in a new country, having to rebuild everything and reinvent yourself professionally.
My goal is to support you so that you can find your place, your voice and your personal fulfillment again.