Intercultural Psychology
Living for such a long period of time in a foreign land, living a loving relationship with a person whose nationality is diverse from yours, restarting professional as well as personal life abroad, being urged to learn a new language and to get used to habits and costumes from another culture, the strange feeling of inability to communicate accurately as one could wish or even the awkwardly feeling of also being misunderstood (even when you can speak the local language) the confrontation with "the other", the confrontation with yourself in a completely different environment and the local culture itself using a new point of view, this all together brings new perspectives and opens new opportunities, but can get someone overloaded, bring about stress, anxiety, conflicts, psychiatric and psychosomatics illnesses.
Even though there are a large number of foreigners living now in Germany,
there is not as much therapeutic helping hand specialized to benefit immigrants,
as someone can find in his homeland. This is mainly due to the fact that
the professionals in this field generally do not have knowledge (or very
limited information) about the present and the previous life style of
the immigrant, or simply they do not take into consideration such important
aspects during his/her therapeutic process. There is also the possibility
that the barrier which blocks the improvement in the therapeutic process
of immigrants, couples/binationalities families and expatriates is the
language (although it is mastered by the person) or the intercultural
misunderstandings.
In my opinion, it is very important, when dealing with a foreign client/patient,
that the intercultural perspective be one of the main guidance during
the therapeutic development. I am aware of this on account of my international
experience, and my own personal and Professional experience with people
from more than 20 different countries, also my experience as an immigrant
previously in Ireland, presently in Germany, and as important as everything
quoted above on the recent theories which have been academically developed
in this Field. Concepts such as cultural dimension and contact with the
"other" may not at all be underestimate in this context (not
even overestimate, for sure).
My job as a therapist aims especially at Latin origin immigrants, at African
immigrants whose mother tongue is also Portuguese and their families as
well, besides European professionals in general who daily find themselves
facing intercultural situations in their work relating to Latin people.
The therapeutic process can be conducted in Portuguese, Spanish, German
and English.
About me
My name is Glaucia Maria de Queiroz. I took my B.A. in psychology at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1996. In 2017 I received the degree MSc from the University of Liverpool. In 2009 I applied and underwent the examinations of the Gesundheitsamt Nürnberg in order to get the license in Heilpratikerin fur Psychotherapie which enables those ones who passed the right to carry on psychotherapy ...(>>>)
