FIGT Counseling and Coaching Community

Expat therapists, counselors, and coaches join together monthly to connect with fellow professionals from around the world, exchange ideas, share experiences, and learn from one another. Together, the Counseling and Coaching Community creates a supportive global network where all can grow personally and professionally while navigating the unique experiences of living and working across cultures.

Open to: FIGT members and non-members

Meetings and How to Join

Americas/Europe/Africa Cohort
Third Wednesday of the month, 1:00 p.m. New York time
Email drkass@goldeninsightcoaching.com and ask to be added to the list

Asia/Pacific Cohort
Third Wednesday of the month, noon Singapore time
Email anza@figt.org and ask to be added to the list

Leadership

Americas/Europe/Africa

Dr. Constantina N. Kass is a Licensed Psychologist, Nationally Certified School Psychologist (USA), and International Coach with more than 25 years of experience across the United States and Europe. She specializes in supporting expatriate individuals and families through the emotional, educational, and cultural challenges of international transitions, drawing on both her professional expertise and her personal experience living abroad and raising TCKs. Her work includes Expat Family Coaching, corporate relocation support, and evidence-based therapy using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Asia/Pacific

Helen Ellis is a New Zealand researcher, author, anthropologist, and distance parenting and grandparenting veteran — six of her seven grandchildren live up to 30 flight hours away across America, Scotland, and England. Drawing on both lived experience and extensive global research, Helen explores the realities of family life across distance. Founder of DistanceFamilies.com, her goal is to help every generation stay connected, involved, and close. Her book series brings together research, stories, and personal experience to illuminate what it means to maintain meaningful family relationships across the miles. She leads the Asia/Pacific counseling and coaching meetup.

Sara Coggiola is an Italian-born, Melbourne-based cross-cultural trainer and co-active coach who has navigated multiple global transitions while raising two cross-cultural kids. She is passionate about fostering connection across cultures while helping individuals bridge differences and develop a genuine sense of belonging wherever they land. Through her private practice, Between Cultures, Sara supports globally mobile families to settle into, adapt to, and thrive in their new communities. Sara offers support and friendship in English, Italian, French, and Spanish.

Trisha Carter is an organisational psychologist who brings cultural intelligence into coaching, facilitation and consulting. She hosts The Shift podcast, exploring what culture, belonging and identity mean in a world with many shifts. Based in Sydney, she supports the FIGT ANZA Affiliate.

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