Transcultural Attachment Consultation

Clinical work across languages and cultures can raise questions that are difficult to understand through one framework alone. Cultural background, language, migration, and displacement shape how patients understand themselves, relationships, and distress. They also shape the therapist’s own position within the therapeutic relationship.

Culture is part of the clinical work.

The theoretical framework of this group is attachment-based, psychodynamic, and transcultural. We consider attachment to people, place, language, and culture; the effects of migration and displacement on continuity and belonging; and how cultural meanings affect the therapeutic relationship. A recommended bibliography supports the clinical work.

The group brings together clinicians working across cultures, languages, and countries. English is the shared working language. Differences in cultural context and clinical training become part of the conversation and may help us recognize what is assumed, translated, or lost in treatment.

Each clinician brings cases and clinical questions from their own settings. The group considers them through three formulations:

The group attends to how culture and language shape the therapeutic relationship and the therapist’s own position within it. Differences in cultural context and clinical training are used to question assumptions and deepen our understanding of the case.

The group is open to mental health professionals at any career stage who work across cultures, languages, or countries.

90-minute sessions, online and in English. Eight sessions across six months. Limited to six participants. Application required.

$100 per session.

An adjusted fee of $40 per session is available to clinicians practicing in low- and middle-income countries.

Next cohort: Fall 2026 · applications open