María Eugenia Mazzino
I accompany you to feel good wherever you are.
I am María Eugenia Mazzino,
Life Coach and Psychologist.
I am specialized in people who live outside of where they were born: expatriates, migrants, global nomads and their children, the TCK= Third Culture Kids.
Nothing makes me happier than helping people to enjoy life wherever they are because that’s my mission, to help you have a fulfilling life and enjoy where you and your family are today.
I have always been fascinated by understanding people’s behavior, that’s why I am a tireless student of LIFE, cultures, religion, societies and human diversity.
AGENDA WORKSHOPS
My Participation
in the Congress
Migration and Mental Health
San Francisco, United States, October 2025
MENTAL HEALTH IN EXPATRIATE FAMILIES:
CHALLENGES TO OVERCOMING CONSECUTIVE “ULYSES SYNDROME”
In my clinical practice, I am increasingly observing families of expatriate workers facing frequent, consecutive international relocations every few years (two, three, or five).
These observations focus on the impact of these repetitive and consecutive transfers on mental and physical health, drawing upon the theoretical framework of the Ulysses Syndrome by Dr. Joseba Achotegui.
While women still primarily bear the burden of household management, childcare, and adapting to the new culture and daily life, there is a growing trend of men assuming this role as the primary caregiver and home manager abroad.
To evaluate the mental health status of family members and forecast their evolution, I have integrated the 7 griefs model of the Ulysses Syndrome and Kate Berardo’s 5Rs of Cultural Change into a new, broader reference model that I have named: R.E.T.O.S. (which translated from the Spanish means “challenges” in English).
Through the variables considered in the R.E.T.O.S. model, presented at this Congress, professionals working with Migrant-Expatriate individuals can better understand the accumulated challenges and the resilience of each family member amidst the chronic stress of successive adaptations, allowing us to accompany them more effectively in their process.
Key Topics
Psychological Impact of Migration
Intervention strategies and community support
Mental health policies in migration contexts
Cultural integration experiences
Human rights and mental health
Who is it for?
Mental health professionals
Researchers and academics
Community leaders and activists
Students and young professionals
NGO Representatives
Public employee
Coaching and psychotherapy sessions
If you would like to have a call to see if we can work together, you can book a free 20-minute session
to get to know each other and clarify your doubts.
Individual psychological coaching sessions
It may be clear to you that you want to look forward and enjoy everything that life brings you at this stage, but you have trouble deciding where to start.
With individual coaching session, I will help you define your priorities and design together a plan that will lead you to achieve your goals while enjoying the process.
Individual psychotherapy sessions
You don’t have to be crazy to go to a psychologist! ☺
You just have to recognize that professional support can be of great help nowadays when everything seems to go so fast and there is no space to analyze what is happening to you, how your life has changed since you moved, or you got married or you changed jobs, or you had a child…
or all that has happened in recent years without being able to stop and reflect but it.
Investing time in yourself with a professional like me can help you regain harmony and drive.
I promise stimulating sessions, with cards, dolls, crayons, stones, shells, and more in a safe environment that will help you identify thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that have blocked you and those that will help free you.
Would you dare to allow yourself to improve?
Psychotherapy sessions for couples
Marrying someone from another culture and/or moving to another country sounds fascinating and it is.
But after a while misunderstandings, parenting differences, finances management styles and professional work and household chores conciliation issues … etc. may begin to arise.
I offer professional counseling to you and your partner so that you can understand what is happening to you. Then I help both of you to find together the strategies and define organizational systems that fit your family.
In-company trainings
As a psychologist I know that the environment plays an important role in the development of people, limiting or motivating them.
As an Intercultural Trainer, I know that workplaces, increasingly diverse, need to make human and cultural differences visible to manage them and transform them into opportunities for improvement.
I offer talks, colloquiums, experiential workshops or in-company master classes that help to generate more inclusive, pleasant and respectful spaces with the needs of the company and people in their work and personal development.
Training in schools (students, teachers, parents, care-givers)
Because as a psychologist I know that childhood and adolescence are fundamental stages in the development of people and that a specific accompaniment that helps to understand and respect Human and Cultural Diversity, contributes to the development of a more just and tolerant society, I will be happy to offer Talks, Colloquiums, Experiential Workshops or Master Classes that help to generate more diverse, respectful and inclusive educational spaces.
