Family & Spouse Support

Services targeted to support families and spouses living abroad and settling in Finland or elsewhere.
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Family & Spouse Support

The purpose of support services for international professional’s family and spouse is to help them to integrate to the new country (e.g. Finland). Services can include but not to be limited to wellbeing surveys for spouses, coaching & on demand psychological counselling, group coaching, webinars & workshops.  

Wellbeing Surveys for Spouses

Wellbeing survey is a good way to get to know how spouses are doing. This is also a nice way to show that you care – duty of care. At the same time, it is a great tool to understand what are those needs and concerns in their international daily life as well as interesting and most useful themes to tackle together. Therefore, it is often combined with the workshop or any other services for spouses.

Career Coaching for Spouses

To support spouses to see all possible career opportunities in their new situation and to be prepared to start the job search by offering career coaching services with a relocation psychologist as a coach. In the coaching process we help spouses to find and identify one’s own strengths, skills and goals, even dreams when considering a new career step. We also help spouses to be prepared and ready to start the job search, to know the tools and to work with documents, etc. When it comes to job search, it is good to challenge the old ways – after all, the situation is quite new and different. The service includes either one or four one-hour sessions of online coaching.

On-demand Psychological Counselling

Being outside of the occupational healthcare to support spouses by offering on demand psychological counselling when they are in acute need to talk to a relocation psychologist.

Living abroad there might be some unexpected crisis situations when psychological help is needed. The purpose is to be of help for those spouses who have an acute need to talk to a relocation psychologist. The topics can be anything related to difficulties to integrate, own well-being, relationship or family situation, and more. Whatever presses the mind, it is worth to talk about it. The service includes from one to four one-hour sessions of online counselling, depending on the need / situation.

Webinars & Workshops

Workshop is an educative, supportive and discussive training session, led by a relocation psychologist to support international talents and/or spouses to settle into a new country (e.g. Finland), live their life in a new culture and feel taken care of. Workshop is also a great opportunity to share in a confidential and supportive environment possible challenges and questions as well as good practices and learnings and gain peer support from others.

Coaching Services

To ensure that the international professionals and their spouses will have a successful and happy experience of settling in and working in a new country (e.g. Finland). The purpose is to ease the integration there, especially to prevent possible stress  factors related to starting / living a new life abroad. The key is to help the international talents and their spouses in adjusting to the social and performance aspects of their situation and new culture as quickly and as effortlessly as possible by the coaching of Relocation Psychologist.