Migration Services
I work to assist in providing new knowledge, problem identification, or recommending alternative options to deal with problems dealing with integrations process. I offer lectures, seminars and also professional supervising. My supervising can vary in style as I may serve also as a catalyst to modify or change the process in a group or in an organisation without being in the group, for example act as a facilitator.
I offer supervision in different areas with my many years of experience and expertise in areas such as migrants, LGBTQ, culture and honour, trauma, family counselling, violence in cultural discourses and identity changes for immigrants. These themes can be addressed both for those who are in direct need of intervention but also for professionals who are working with the target group who are in need of interventions.
I design trainings based on the need of your organisation and participants.
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Multi-cultural Counselling
Most psychotherapies in the west are self- based in their applied theories, meaning that the therapist approach a person and his or her problem from the perspective of an active notion of me. These may not be acceptable or suitable across other cultures.
It is critical that therapists or social workers do not force self value-based therapies on socio-centric individuals or try to convince them directly or indirectly into their own values.
As an immigrant myself, I have intervened with the perspective of how I would have liked to have been helped by a counsellor or other helping professional throughout my development as a bicultural student. I know that my struggles are unique and that my story holds value for me. I implement this outlook in my work with each group member or individual client. This is a form of empathy. This personal disclosure in my work creates an instant connection from one fellow immigrant to another. I have seen the effect of this disclosure as a sense of liberation, in that these clients feel unchained from the burden of having to teach me every excruciating step of the immigration process and what it means to identify as an immigrant.
I can use my understanding to build a space where we can examine a shared understanding of the emotional impacts of this process and where they can also feel personally and culturally validated through this awareness of their experiences on a broader communal level.
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Migration and mental disorders
I offer trainings for mental health professionals specielized in migration & mental health disorders and multi cultural counsling. My other area of specialities is in supervising school teachers dealing with explosive children and adolsepnse. For more information read under the page migration and supervision. In 2019 I am working as a trauma and immigrant-immigrant-consltant and expert for the Swedish organisation Frys Huset, Malmö.
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Migration & LGBTQ+
The intersection of ethnocultural and sexual orientation identities presents unique challenges that mandate cultural competence in assessing and intervening with ethnically diverse lesbian, gay, bi- sexual, and transgender people. Effective counselling with this population requires an understanding of non-Eurocentric, non-heterosexual worldviews as well as an awareness of the sociopolitical realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender life. Culture centered counselling theory provides an effective framework for addressing the needs of ethnically diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients.
A review of the literature on counselling ethnically diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people is provided along with case illustrations to illuminate the use of culture-centered counselling theory with this population. Recommendations focus on counsellor training to increase ethnocultural knowledge and clinical competence and to reduce personal bias.
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Migration & honour cultures
The word “Honour” means different things to different people at different times. In modern societies, honour refers to a form of social status that attaches to integrity and collectively respected and desired character. But honour has an older meaning still found among some groups and cultures today. Honour can be expected to be owned through the implementation of the common traditions and rules even if force is needed.
I offer educational seminars in the terminology of honour and honour cultures with a pragmatic approach in helping professionals to find hands on interventions for professionals facing the acute situation in social work or school. Currently I am designing a seminar for professionals from the organisation ‘Save The Children’ and communal workers of Region Skåne.