Cross-Cultural Family Support
TCK Training
Location: Online
Services: Equipping, encouraging, and empowering TCKs, Adult TCKs, and anyone who supports TCKs through research-based awareness.
Familjegladje
Location: Sweden
Services: Resources, including the book “Third Culture Kids: A Gift to Care For” and “Safety Stories” a trauma processing model used by clinicians and parents. Se provides webinars and trainings for parents and member care providers about TCKs and can speak at conferences and trainings. She also consults organizations to help develop their member care services for families and children.
FIGT (Families in Global Transition)
Location: Online
Services: Articles and resources for global families
OLIVE TREE RESOURCES
We offer clinical counseling and play therapy for children ages 3+ and have dedicated child and teen therapists on staff. Additionally, we’ve compiled several of our own materials about TCKs in one space here:
Educational Support
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Services: Serving families in Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa. Helping parents identify needs, assess options, and choose education strategies for their children as they live cross-culturally – consulting, evaluations & assessments, conferences, seminarsHelp parents identify needs, assess options, and choose education strategies for their children as they live cross-culturally – consulting, evaluations & assessments, conferences, seminars
Anchor
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Services: Serving families in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, providing education support for families, schools, and agencies for expat families including educational testing and evals, consulting for parents, education planning, and special education needs. They provide home-based education resources specific for TCKs.
Linden Learning
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Services: Located in Berlin, Germany. Providing Educational & Therapeutic Services Without Borders, support for international students and schools worldwide
SAFE
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Services: Families serving in Asia. Meeting the educational needs of expat families serving in Asia is crucial to their well‐being and longevity overseas. In 2001, SAFE was specifically created (as AERC) to provide critically needed services and support to these families who are using nontraditional educational methods such as homeschooling, national schools, or online schooling. SAFE is a partnership of schools, organizations, and individuals serving in Asia with a board of representatives from the network.
Asia Educational Resource Center
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Services: Education resources and conferences related to Asia education
Counseling Referrals for TCKs & Families
Expat Kids Club
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Location: Online and Amstelveen, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Services: Multilingual, culturally informed therapeutic support for your child, anywhere in the world. (Therapy, assesments, etc.)
Alongside
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Location: USA (Michigan)
Services: Trust-Based Relational Intervention (for youth and child programs) – this is a 3-week on-site program for families, but they do have a specific program and counselors for TCKs specifically.
East to West Counseling
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Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Services: Counseling for adults and children ages 3+
One Another Ministries
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Location: UK
Services: Child / Play Therapy, mainly trauma and other mental health issues, families, individuals and TCKs.
Barnabas
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Location: Online
Services: Adult TCK groups https://www.barnabas.org/images/docs/Resources_for_Adult_TCKs.pdf, counseling here: https://barnabas.org/care-for-global-workers/atck/ and also support for TCKs and cross-cultural worker families
Intrepid Counseling
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Location: USA (Georgia and Washington State)
Services: Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) – for children and adolescents with trauma; Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) – for adults with trauma, Common Elements Treatment Approach (for adolescents and adults with combinations of trauma, anxiety and depression). Restoration Therapy – a spiritually integrative relational approach (all ages).
Sinews Multilnigual Therapy Institute
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Location: Madrid, Spain
Services: counseling, speech therapy, psych testing
TCK Training Counseling Referral List
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Services: Referral list for TCK counseling (therapists, centers, online)
Sarah Elliot, Child Therapy International
Location: UK (online therapy)
Services: Online therapy for children, young people, and families living internationally, specializing in supporting families through emotional stress, transition, and cultural adjustment. Helping children feel safe, understood, and able to thrive, wherever they are in the world.
Trauma-informed, Play therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Child Safeguarding Consultant.