13 Aug 2026
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Lysanne Sizoo – journalist, author and psychotherapist UKCP accred.

Lysanne Sizoo has over 25 years experience in working as an international counsellor and personal development coach. She specialises in cross-cultural issues, as well as fertility, bereavement, parenting, anxiety and stress management. She is also the creator of the Star Psychology

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Expats and mental health: Stuck in Sweden?

Lysanne Sizoo on the pain of international partners torn between love for their children and troubles in their relationship.

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Expats and mental health: Finding the fun in failure

YLC mental health expert Lysanne Sizoo looks at the topic of failure; the fear of which looms large in every expat’s life.

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Old age and Abroad: Dealing with parents ‘back home’

Lysanne Sizoo looks at the feelings of guilt that follow from parental expectations and our own life choices.

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Parenting in a foreign land – Part 2

Lysanne Sizoo looks at multilingualism, schools and some typical character traits of so-called Third Culture Kids (TCKs)

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For better or worse: Love in a foreign land – Part 1

In the first of a series of articles on love in Sweden, Lysanne Sizoopsychotherapist UKCP reg., considers the issues faced by expats when either one or both halves of a couple are in a foreign country. Part 1: At home

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Up the waterspout again

Why New Year’s resolutions miss the point, but your inner compass doesn’t In the children’s nursery rhyme, Incy Wincy Spider repeatedly climbs up the waterspout, only to be flushed out again and again by the rain. Then, when the sun

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A slow, steady climb back to the light – Dealing with sorrow at a time of feasting

This is the season of light, feasting, and enforced joy – and for many, it arrives right in the middle of grief. We all move through periods of light and dark in our lives. The light expands us; the dark

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The Laughter of Recognition

Most people think therapy is all tears and tissues — not laughter. Sure, sometimes you laugh in a dark, self-deprecating kind of way, but it’s rare that joy fills the room. Back when I was running the Turning Point counselling

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Are you OK?

It will hardly have escaped your notice that we are living in changing times, indeed, rapidly changing times. Depending on your mindset, we are either going to hell in handbasket or we’re seeing the last dregs of a corrupt and