Therapy for Expats in the Netherlands
Where new hope begins
ResPair is a space to pause, breathe, and reconnect, especially when life abroad feels heavy or overwhelming. Together we make sense of your story, and find a way forward.
Life abroad brings new opportunities, as well as new challenges.
As an expat in the Netherlands, you may feel excitement mixed with loneliness, stress, or disconnection. Relationships can shift, emotions can feel unpredictable, and the pressure to "make it work" can be exhausting.
At ResPair, I offer therapy and counselling tailored to expats. A safe space to share your experiences, explore patterns that hold you back, and restore the hope and clarity you need to move forward.
💬 Languages: English, Slovak, Czech (limited Russian and Spanish also possible)
Ways I support expats
🌾 Free Consultation: First step to see if ResPair. feels right for you without pressure or commitment.
🌳 Individual Counselling: Work through depression, anxiety, trauma, or adjustment difficulties while living abroad.
🪴 Couple's Therapy: Therapy for couples facing conflict, communication difficulties, or intimacy issues.
🌍 Support Groups: Two support groups for expats, one for autistic people, and one for people living with bipolar disorder, held in a safe, professionally facilitated space.
What can I expect?
Therapy as a space for new hope
Starting therapy can feel uncertain, especially when you don't know what to expect. I highly value transparency in the therapeutic process, and I will guide you through each step of the way. At ResPair, it means that you will remain in the driver's seat, while I sit beside you with a map as a guide and companion.
What this might look like in practice?
Beginning: Using schema therapy approach, we start with your story. What brings you to therapy now, your relationships, your struggles and hopes.
Exploration: Together, we notice recurring patterns, ways of feeling, thinking, and relating that may have their roots earlier in life.
Change: Through awareness, new experiences, and practice, we find different ways of responding, so that old patterns loosen and you feel more authentic, grounded, and connected.
Throughout: Therapy is a safe base where you can bring all parts of yourself. At ResPair, this means a space to restore hope
Testimonials
"In my experience, Rebeka really made each session feel like a safe space and I felt comfortable quite quickly from the start. I appreciated that she adapted her approach based on what works for me. After a few sessions she could point out patterns that I did not realise I had and together we figured out a way for me to deal with them. For example, I found the visualisation exercises she suggested really helpful."
"Rebeka is fantastic. She is very compassionate and able to understand different situational and cultural nuances quickly. This allows for the conversation and sessions to immediately flow without much explanation. Her cultural fluency and ability to switch tactics and adapt has greatly aided my ability to heal."
"I have been working with Rebeka for almost a year. Rebeka is the best psychotherapist I have worked with in the past eight years. She is very compassionate, and as a person not just in therapy sessions. She is very accommodating and flexible, and that relieves a lot of pressure. Especially if the person struggles with day to day structure and anxiety. Rebeka is a very informed psychotherapist, she is able to explain things to me in clear ways. She has a lot of patience and knowledge for her patients and she truly cares. I highly recommend Rebeka's therapy and expertise."
Book a session
- To connect
- To be heard
- To be understood
- And to feel better
Come from despair to ResPair.
Rebeka Pázmányová Psychologist
Address: Breestraat 24, 2311 CS, Leiden, Netherlands
Email: pazmanyova.psychologist@gmail.com