Expats & digital nomads
Starting over in a new culture, far from the people who knew you before. Loneliness, identity, belonging, and relationships that strain under distance.
Online psychotherapy · English & Română
You built a life across borders. Let’s make room for what you carry.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy online, in English or Romanian. For expats, founders and professionals who hold a lot together, and rarely say what it costs them.
- Accredited by the Romanian College of Psychologists
- ACPPB member
- 50-minute sessions, fully online
Alexandra Marin Psychoanalytic psychotherapist
Perhaps you recognise this
Life looks fine from the outside.
Most people don’t come to therapy because everything has fallen apart. They come because something keeps quietly repeating, and they’re tired of carrying it alone.
- Successful on paper, restless underneath.Professionals
- Between two countries, and at home in neither.Expats
- Everyone leans on you. You lean on no one.Founders
- The same argument, the same kind of relationship. Again.Patterns
- Anxiety that no productivity system can fix.Anxiety
- Missing home in a language no one around you speaks.Diaspora
If one of these sentences stayed with you, that is reason enough to talk.
Request a first consultation
The psychodynamic view
What shows is rarely the whole story.
Symptoms are messages. In psychoanalytic therapy we don’t only try to quiet them. We try to understand what they are saying. Tap a line to look beneath it.
These are illustrations, not diagnoses. What lies beneath is different for everyone. Discovering it, at your own pace, is the work we do together.
The approach
Not a checklist. A relationship.
Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy works with the parts of experience we don’t fully see: early relationships, unspoken expectations, feelings we learned to put away. Putting them into words changes how much power they hold.
Sessions are open by design. You talk about what is on your mind; I listen closely for what repeats and what is avoided, and we make sense of it together. Over time the aim is not only relief, but a freer, more spacious relationship with yourself.
Research on psychodynamic therapy suggests its benefits tend to last beyond the end of treatment, because the work is about understanding, not only coping.
- Notice
Putting words to what you feel, often for the first time, and without being judged.
- Understand
Tracing present difficulties back to where they began, and seeing the patterns that connect them.
- Change
Making different choices from the inside out: in relationships, in work, in how you treat yourself.
This is not
- Quick fixes or scripts
- Advice on how to live your life
- Coaching or performance optimisation
This is
- A confidential space held by a trained clinician
- Depth, at your own pace
- A regular rhythm, at a fixed time that is yours
Who I work with
For people who carry a lot, and rarely say so.
I work with adults living all over the world. Many of them are far from where they grew up; most of them are used to being the strong one.
Romanians abroad
Therapy in Romanian, wherever you live. For the feelings that only make sense in your first language, and the complicated ties to home.
Founders & entrepreneurs
Decisions no one else can make for you, and a mind that doesn’t switch off. Pressure, isolation, and the cost of always holding it together.
High-pressure professionals
High standards, long hours, quiet exhaustion. Perfectionism, burnout, anxiety, and the feeling that it is never quite enough.
- COPSIAccredited psychotherapistRomanian College of Psychologists
- ACPPBMember of the Association of Counselling and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Bucharest (ACPPB)
About
Psychodynamic therapy starts from the idea that symptoms are saying something that hasn’t yet found words. My role is to create the space where that can finally be heard and understood.
I’m accredited by the Romanian College of Psychologists and a member of ACPPB, trained in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Beyond clinical training, I bring over 11 years of personal investment in self-knowledge and development, along with a cross-cultural perspective shaped by living and working across several countries. That gives me a close understanding of what it’s like for people navigating between cultures, languages and time zones: entrepreneurs, professionals under constant pressure, expats and Romanians abroad.
I work exclusively online, directly with you, with no assistants and no intermediary platforms. When you write, I’m the one who reads it and replies.
Alexandra
Read the therapeutic agreement (PDF)
On paper
Certificates
The documents behind the credentials.
How it works
Beginning is simpler than it feels.
No forms to fill in about your history, no waiting rooms. Just a short email, and a person on the other side.
Write a short email
A few lines are enough: your name, your time zone and when you are usually free. You don’t need to explain everything.
I reply personally
I read every message myself and reply by email, usually within two working days, to suggest a time for a first consultation.
A first consultation
Fifty minutes online to talk about what brings you, at whatever depth feels comfortable, and to ask anything about how I work. There is no obligation to continue.
A regular rhythm
If we continue, we agree on a regular rhythm at a fixed time: a steady place in your week that belongs only to you.
Practicalities
Clarity from the first step.
A good therapeutic relationship rests on clear boundaries and complete transparency. Here is everything you need to know.
- Session length
- Each session lasts 50 minutes, at an agreed time.
- Secure video
- Encrypted video sessions, from home or any quiet, private room in the world.
- Language & payment
- Sessions in English or Romanian. Payment details are shared by email once we agree on a time.
- Confidentiality
- Everything discussed in sessions is protected by professional secrecy under the ethical code of the Romanian College of Psychologists. Nothing clinical is ever stored on this website.
Wherever you are
Times are agreed individually, across time zones.
In Bucharest
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Europe/Bucharest
Where you are
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Your time zone
Request a consultation
Take the first step.
A few lines by email are all it takes. I’ll reply personally to suggest a time for a first 50-minute consultation.
It helps to include your name, where you live, when you’re usually free and your preferred language.
Write to me alexandra.marin@epsy.roThis is not an emergency service. If you are in crisis, call your local emergency number (112 in the EU).