5 Dec 2025
Expat Support
Community Expat Support General Counselling

Expats and Mental Health: Why Identities Change Abroad

This week YLC’s mental health expert Lysanne Sizoo discusses how our sense of identity is challenged when we move to another country… and how we can use it to our advantage. Photo: Marko Kudjerski/Flickr (file) Have you noticed that the way in which you introduce yourself to others has changed since you moved abroad? Where before […]

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Community Expat Support General Counselling

Expats and mental health: YOUR questions answered

A dilemma all expats have to face at some time: saying goodbye

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Expats and mental health: The ‘Second Day Blues’

This week, Lysanne Sizoo explores why many couples experience the ‘second day blues’, when one half returns weary from a trip abroad only to be faced with disgruntled grumbles and a list of chores.   My father was naval officer and my mother a very independent and self-sufficient naval officer’s wife. She told me, “When your […]

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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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Community Expat Support General Counselling

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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Community Expat Support Swedish Culture

The YLC top 5 ways of getting ’round Jante-lagen

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Ever felt like the odd one out – and that it is not appreciated? Then chances are you’ve been ‘Janted’.

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Community Expat Support General Counselling

Expats and mental health: YOUR questions answered

Read the articles and find you have questions of your own? Why not drop us a line?

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Community Expat Support General Counselling

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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Community Expat Support General Counselling

And then it’s time to move on again: the expat cycle

Few expats know in advance how long they will stay, as extensions are not unusual, nor are sudden changes of plan.

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Expat Support Family Parenting

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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