Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. Displacement

2. Online Therapy

3. Psychology of Displacement

4. Addressing Displacement

5. Importance of Working with Attachment

6. Language

7. Displacement and shame

8. Distance therapeutic relationship

9. The Gift of Therapy in displacement

About the Author

Anastasia Piatakhina Giré is accredited with the UKCP and holds the European Certificate of Psychotherapy. She has practised online therapy for over a decade, with clients around the world. She now lives and works in Paris, France and is finalising her DPsych at Middlesex University, London. She is also a faculty member of the Online Therapy Institute, London.

Reviews

"A psychotherapist and expatriate herself, Piatakhina-Gire speaks from the heart and her extensive clinical experience to the powerful and vital role online therapy plays in the lives of today's displaced and highly mobile citizens of the world." – Lawrence Rubin, PhD, ABPP, Psychotherapist, Educator, Author, and Editor of Psychotherapy.net“Online Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals is essential reading if you work therapeutically with displaced and highly mobile clients. It considers the essential, topical existential issue of displacement, at the personal, social and political levels. This book is packed full of ideas, connected to theoretical concepts which cross therapeutic modalities. It is meticulously researched and contains selected quotations from transcultural authors across disciplines. But at the heart of this book are the rich stories where the patients come to life, unlocked by Anastasia’s considerable therapeutic skills. The stories are beautifully told, often deeply moving and unfailingly authentic. To be bold, as a therapist, and to be authentic can be construed as an act of love. Anastasia chooses love in this impressive, beautifully written book." – Beverley Costa, DPsych, UKCP approved supervisor, MBACP, Author of Other Tongues: Psychological Therapies in a Multilingual World