Resources
Third Culture Kid Care and Parent-Support Resources
Raising Third Culture Kids comes with specific delightful and tricky elements. And it’s hard to overstate the challenge it is to be adulting in a new country as a repatriated Adult TCK. If you’ve come here for TCK Teen counseling, therapy to support a third culture kid in transition or been-there mental health care for Adult TCK challenges, you’re in the right place. And you might need some other kinds of support too.
As a Child Mental Health Specialist, in my TCK care-focused practice, I often recommend these organizations and resources to my clients and their families. Whether your family is navigating an international move, supporting a TCK teen’s emotional needs on the field, or returning from overseas, you will need community and resources like these.
These organizations offer retreats, transition programs, education support, and spiritual care specifically designed for globally mobile families and their kids, teens and young adults. (I’ve been through some of these programs myself at various MK/TCK life stages).
TCK Mental Health and Caregiver Resources
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Diagnostic Testing / Assessment
Share Conference - educational assistance and testing
Therapy Solutions - ADHD assessment online
The Truman Group - Psychological testing and assessment for expats
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Psychiatry
Valeo Global- Online psychiatric assessment
The Truman Group - Online psychiatric services for adults abroad
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TCK info for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers
TCK Training - Training, Research, Resources all about caring well for TCKs
A Life Overseas - Articles about living abroad and raising TCKs as expat parents
TCK Care and Education - A resource website by Wycliffe
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TCKs with Special Needs
Raising TCKs - “One mother’s journey raising Third Culture Kids” (including TCKs with disabilities).
Learning to Flourish - TCK dyslexia specialist, Katie Fowle
Jenilee Goodwin - Neurodiverse Third Culture Kids
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Graduating and College-age TCKs
KC360 - Navigating College Admissions
Barnabus International - Connecting events and support for young adult third culture kids
MuKappa - Christian Campus organization for Third Culture Kids
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Education Support
Safe Passages Across Networks (SPAN) - Supporting school transitions
Natasha Winnard - Consultant supporting globally mobile kids’ educational success
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In-Person Seminars and Retreats
Transit Lounge - Cross-cultural transition retreats by Interaction International
MK Re-entry Seminar - Narramore Christian Foundation
Reboot - Canadian MK/TCK retreat
Concourse - Adult TCK Retreat by Barnabus International
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TCK Blogs and Podcasts
TCK Care Podcast - stories and strategies that support Third Culture Kids
People Like Us - TCKs share stories struggles and successes
The Rooted TCK - podcast about TCK issues
List of Podcasts - AIM Resource
These organizations offer valuable community support and resources for expat families, Third Culture Kids and Adult Third Culture Kids. If your child or teen needs individualized support while navigating a cultural transition, taking charge of their anxiety, working through identity and belonging challenges or building emotion regulation skills, I can help. I am an Adult TCK and now as a licensed marriage and family therapist, I provide specialized TCK counseling and family therapy designed for globally mobile families and Adult TCKs.
Ready to talk it through with someone who gets it?
Let me help you figure out what kind of support you need.