How I Work. Camila Marques of Multi-lingual Expatriate Counseling in the Rotterdam area in the Netherlands explains!

Multi-lingual Rotterdam
Expatriate Counseling®

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Multilingual and Multicultural coaching, counseling and therapy for expatriates by expat Camila Marques

Camila Marques

06 482 542 45

How I Work

COUNSELING/COACHING SERVICES
As a Counselor/Coach, I offer my services in various languages, such as English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, in order to facilitate a comfortable therapeutic context. My goal is to help you in your journey towards fulfilling your potential and discovering new insights to a more resourceful and happy way of living.
The foundation of my work is informed by the person-centred approach to counseling; a process-oriented way of working in which the therapeutic relationship is central. This requires an attitude and way of working of the counselor that is transparent and committed, that shows integrity and makes full use of personal skills and experience, truthfulness, honesty, modesty and solidity, plus a reasonable measure of trust in the inherent human tendency towards self-actualization and growth.

Counseling is more suited to help clients explore particular difficulties, experiences or feelings or to discuss the uncertainty or ambivalence regarding direction in life, changes, goals, choice, meaning or purpose and providing a climate in which clients can freely engage in focused, in-depth self-exploration.

Benefits achieved from Counselling:

Increased self-esteem and greater openness to experience.
Closer agreement between the client's idealized and actual selves;
Better self-understanding;
lower levels of defensiveness, guilt, and insecurity;
More positive and comfortable relationships with others;
Increased capacity to experience and express feelings at the moment they occur.

Coaching is for everyone who wants to improve some aspects of their life. You may want a new job or career, or promotion in the job you have. You may want to find the right partner, or find new self confidence, or get rid of a destructive habit. You may want to get more balance between your work and private life. Maybe you want to start your own business, or find the focus necessary to pass important exams.

Benefits achieved from coaching may include:

Understand the situation more clearly
Develop new ideas or approaches for those situations
Take constructive action that gets you the results you want
Make decisions
Improved sense of direction & focus
Increased knowledge of self/self-awareness
Improved personal effectiveness
Increased resourcefulness/resilience
Learning to cope with turbulent work situations, such as management changes or company mergers
Increased motivation
Learning to deal with Set-backs
Learning to manage conflicts at work
Discover private problems that inhibit professional functioning

EXPATRIATE COUNSELING
As someone who has been living as an expatriate for the last 15 years,in different countries and different continents, I have a clear undertanding of the difficulties often experienced by individuals and families making an international move and living in a foreign country. Everyday life can throw many challenges our way, but for expats, there is an added dimension – aggravation of previous problems, new hurdles to negotiate, big adjustments to be made. Some of the challenges inherent in moving to a new culture are coping with the loss of familiar ways of feeling competent and worthy, even a partial sense of losing one's identity, as well as the challenge to find comfort and to build support networks amidst unfamiliar surroundings; It is not always easy to find your “own home comforts” when you are living in another country and sometimes you may experience overwhelming feelings of loneliness or despair. Counselling can help you overcome these common feelings, by lessening the instability and doubts of living in a new culture, informed support and guidance can make the task much lighter and of shorter duration. It is not always easy to find your “own home comforts” when you are living in another country.

Management coaching
In the workplace, managers with effective coaching skills produce significantly better results. They can encourage people do better work, for longer, and they contribute to their organisation in a variety of ways. Management coaching helps you to explore and extend your coaching skills. It allows you to experiment with new behaviours that can enhance your management results.

What you can expect:

The sessions are informal and held in a positive atmosphere at counselor’s setting or clients home/office
The sessions are completely confidential (American Counselling association Code of Ethics)
Clients are free to discuss any problems or situations they see relevant
A counselor/ coach doesn’t tell you what to do but works with you to explore what will best work for you.

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