How to Navigate Cultural Communication Styles

Larissa has been living as an expat in Belgium since 2017 where her practice in Leuven is focused on psychotherapy for the international and expatriate community. She also offers online psychotherapy, which enables her to assist clients across the globe. She works with adult individual clients, couples/partner relationships and families. She has a special interest in interpersonal communication and how this impacts our mental well being and relationships. She is experienced in assisting couples to separate or divorce in an amicable way serving the best interest of the children impacted by the separation and also in perinatal mental health, especially within the expatriate context where there is limited support for new parents.

Antoon is a tenure-track professor at KU Leuven, where he coordinates the Master of Interpreting programme and leads the Interpreting Studies Research Group. He teaches courses related to Spanish interpreting, interpreting studies, and multilingual communication. Furthermore, Antoon is a research fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and serves as co-chair of the Special Interest Group on 'Language and Cultural Discordance in Healthcare Communication' at the International Association for Communication in Healthcare. He also serves on the Regional Advisory Committee of GLOCAL (The Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics) at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on social interaction in linguistically and culturally diverse and stressful environments, such as emergency departments and asylum reception centres. Additionally, he conducts research on access to mental health services for migrants and refugees.