Group therapy for English-speaking participants in Barcelona
Would you like to work on your difficulties with other people that come from abroad? Settling in a foreign city can be extremely challenging: new language, new culture, new customs and the huge effort to build up a new social network, sometimes from scratch. These group sessions are aimed to work on your issues with […]
Workshop: How to deal with emotions in times of uncertainty
Since confinement, the reality of working from home is much more like a career in psychological obstacles than a forced vacation: dealing with uncertainty, fear of the consequences of confinement, wage restraints, attending to housework, self and family care ... and also work as if [...]
Common concerns about Coronavirus
The Covid-19 has turned our world upside down without warning. The current uncertainty to which we are subject to added confinement can generate significant psychological instability that can interfere with our well-being. Specifically, the state of confinement places us in an uncomfortable position of little control that activates primitive fears and a submission to […]
Job insecurity among young adults
The difficulty to find a job despite many years of college studies and the job insecurity situation in Spain are an increasing difficulty among young adults. Moreover, the prolonged frustration derived from not find a decent job can lead to anxiety, stress and depression (in students) and hopelessness in their [...]
Risk Factors (while abroad) of a student
Beyond the known "culture shock" suffered by students who come from elsewhere, there are other risk factors that occur once settled, which greatly aggravate and prevent them from adjusting properly and having a good experience. After months of preparation and expectations they finally come to Barcelona, but nothing is what it seemed; [...]
Previous risk factors that increase the cultural shock
"Why do some foreign college students have difficulty adjusting when they come here to continue studying?" While there is no magic recipe to prevent difficulties suffer a student who is temporarily in Barcelona, after talks with more than 450 foreign university students, I have observed that they share some common factors [...]
Myths about anxiety
"I am anxious, when I lay down to sleep I can not stop mulling over things, the heart will me a thousand, it seems that I stay out of air and will suffer cardiac arrest ...". Not infrequently us life situations that take us out of our comfort zone and put in check our occur [...]
I came to Spain to study, but I don't adjust to it
Once upon a foreign student who chooses Barcelona as a place to continue their university studies. It has lasted three weeks and so far living is not exactly what I expected: neither his fellow Americans like him, nor is enjoying the experience as he imagined. The days are long, but the nights [...]
The American nightmare: Studying Abroad
Beach, paella, bullfights, parties, spirit ... are some of the siren songs that attract American students when choosing Barcelona as a destination to complete their studies. They hope to have fun as ever, start again grow as people and some even reinvent itself. "Make themselves" as the American dream. However, there are [...]
