You didn't choose an international life
to put yourself on hold. That stops here.
You have the success and the freedom.
Now claim the life that matches it.
GROUNDED.
A Tailored Group Coaching Programme for Expats and International Professionals to Thrive.
Starting date June 1st 2026!
This is what GROUNDED is built to deliver
This is what clients are saying about my coaching
"With Chiqui, I found order and direction and a deeper understanding of myself. She is an honest, warm, and approachable coach, yet fully capable of speaking with clarity, precision, and respect. It was a pleasure to work with her and I will call her again in the future if needed.”
- Humanitarian working globally
"Even in just a few sessions, Chiqui helped me shift my mindset and tap into my own strengths. I have been able to move forward with the unknown and feel comfortable with whatever happens next!”
- American professional working internationally
"Chiqui's empathy and professionalism are a rare gift. Today, I still rely on her tools. Her coaching helped me move forward after 20 years of work in Africa without remorse.”
- Colombian expat in Africa
Does this sound like you?
No one warned you of the real and specific human challenges that can come with international living.
I see you, I understand you, because I have been in your shoes at some point in my 30+ years of international living, and I see this frequently among peers and clients.
You have a very heavy travel schedule. You are competent and undoubtedly successful, but you reach home depleted and disconnected from everyone, including yourself.
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You relocate. You adapt, but you are no longer sure who YOU are anymore after adapting so much. The next relocation is coming before you know it. Stress is mounting, and you just hope the storm will pass.
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You are a supportive spouse arriving at your destination abroad, and you realize the change feels HARD. You feel a deep sense of loss. You can't seem to connect with people around you. You feel you are falling apart while you keep the entire family afloat. Maybe you even want to go back to your previous life, career, and all other things that held your identity.
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You decided to move to a new country, looking for a more relaxed, cultured, connected way of living, but now that you are there it feels CHALLENGING. You are surrounded by people, but you feel terribly lonely and unable to connect meaningfully and thrive.
You Are Not Alone.
In GROUNDED, my Group Coaching Programme, you’ll learn how to work through the weighing human level challenges that often come with an international life.
None of the weight that you are feeling is what you signed up for. And yet here you are doing your best to manage it, trying to push through it, hoping it will settle on its own. But it won't. Not without addressing what's underneath it.
Because the situations I described above are not the problem. They are what the problem looks like on the surface. And that is precisely why nothing you have tried so far has moved the needle: you have been treating the symptoms, not the cause.
This is why nothing moves, and in the meantime it is not just your happiness at stake. It is your energy, your relationships, your sense of who you are and what your life is actually for.
I know this because I have lived it in my 30 years of international experience in over twenty countries. I have been the expat, the international professional, the mom, the spouse and the woman in this context.
My life has not been a straight line. I have faced the same human challenges that come with international life at some point that you are facing now. I know what it means.
I also know there is a way through. Not around it, through it. It is having the success and feeling it. The freedom and living it. Fully, the way it was always meant to be.
This is what GROUNDED is built to deliver.
This is not about managing your international life better.
It is about no longer just coping.
It is about becoming someone who thrives in it unconditionally.
I know you care about results.
Look at what clients have to say about coaching with me:
"She (Chiqui) has a remarkable gift for holding up a mirror with both precision and compassion. She reflected the parts of me that were blurry, hidden or out of my awareness, and she does this in a way that empowers you. I wholeheartedly and with no hesitation recommend her.”
- Expat in Spain
"The work done with Chiqui equipped me to gain awareness and peace, establish clear boundaries leaving guilt aside. I was able to regain my self-confidence with Chiqui's coaching.”
- Argentinian expat in France
"I always looked forward to my coaching with Chiqui, and enjoyed reflecting on and preparing for our sessions... I highly recommend Chiqui to anyone seeking a coach who combines empathy with actionable strategies.”
- American professional working internationally
NICE TO MEET YOU
I'm Chiqui.
And I am, in every sense of the word, a citizen of the world.
I have lived in six countries and worked in over 20 in the 30+ years I have lived abroad. I am a trained anthropologist who turned her life's obsession - people and impact - into a coaching practice that consistently changes lives.
I know what it is to be high-functioning and discretely disconnected from yourself - and at times, from others. To have a beautiful life on paper but for life to be far from perfect. I know this from myself, peers, and my coaching clients.
You do not face logistical or superficial mindset problems. It’s about a deeper conversation, and that is very good news. Because you are where the answer lives.
GROUNDED exists because I know the terrain. I've walked it. I walk it with my clients every day.
And I know exactly how to take you to your most important destination: yourself.
How is GROUNDED structured?
My coaching moves clients from their current reality to new intentionally created ones by:
Silencing the noise. Your days are full of demands, decisions, other people's needs, and the relentless pace of an international life. There is very little space to stop and ask what you actually need, feel or want. GROUNDED begins here, by deliberately creating that space. Because you cannot hear yourself when everything around you is louder than you.
Gaining awareness. We gain awareness of what is happening with you that is causing discomfort, anxiety about an upcoming move abroad, sense of loss, grief for the lives they have left behind, disconnections from people in host countries – or from themselves and their families, emotional exhaustion, isolation, deep concern about returning back home, and other common human challenges faced by expats and international professionals. This is foundational and one of the most important things we do. Because you cannot change what you cannot see.
Identifying possibilities. Here we start moving forward. What has felt like a dead end without a solution in sight reveals itself as a choice. What felt impossible begins to look like a direction. This is where you stop asking why this is happening to me and start asking what do I actually want to do about it. Here is where you regain your power. The power to start imagining possible alternatives.
Intentionally creating NEW realities. This is where the work becomes visible in your life. Not just in how you think — but in how you show up, what you decide, what you no longer accept, and what you begin to build. Deliberately. On your own terms. This is what it looks like when your inner life and your outer life finally start moving in the same direction.
What Makes GROUNDED One of a Kind?
It addresses the right level, not logistics, cultural adjustment, or general wellness. GROUNDED addresses the three dimensions where international assignment failure actually originates: identity, emotional capacity, and alignment. We will not work with the symptoms but the causes.
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It works with the reality people are actually in. Whether a participant is in Argentina, Mozambique, Dubai, Spain, London, Brussels, Malaysia – or anywhere else. The programme works with the inner relationship to context, the framing, the meaning-making, the intentional inhabiting of the life available.
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The group contributes to the intervention. The cohort experiencing similar situations creates a quality of recognition, solidarity, and collective intelligence that individual coaching cannot replicate. Everyone gains when other participants are coached.
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It prepares people for all future international transitions. The tools built in GROUNDED are not exclusively useful in the present. Participants leave with a way of navigating every transition for the rest of their internationally mobile lives.
Your Investment
GROUNDED is a premium, intimate coaching experience. This programme is application-based in order to ensure the highest quality experience for every participant.
As the work we do together is personal, reflective, and deeply transformative, each application is carefully considered to maintain a supportive group dynamic and ensure alignment in goals, readiness, and expectations.
Before joining the programme, all prospective participants are invited to schedule a complimentary 30-minute exploratory call with me. This conversation is an opportunity to explore your current situation, your goals, and whether this coaching space is the right fit for you at this stage of your journey.
By clicking the button below, you will be redirected to the booking page to schedule your exploratory call.
Full Programme
€2.250
Four months. Fourteen 90-minute group coaching sessions.
Immediate access to the programme and all support materials.
A small, high-touch coaching community designed to move you forward.
Payment in two installments available (two payments of 1,400 Euro each).
VIP
€5.000
Everything in the full programme, plus four individual 90-minute coaching sessions with me across the four months.
For those who want the group experience and deeper, personalised support alongside it.
Would you like to know more about this programme?
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I built GROUNDED because I know this work changes lives.
I look forward to doing it with you.
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More testimonials from my coaching clients:
"Chiqui helped me clarify my goals in my context, take care of myself, rediscover my strengths and work that energized me. She asked questions that pushed me to think more deeply or look at things from another perspective. I highly recommend working with her!"
- American expat
"Chiqui's coaching sessions gained awareness of possibilities in situations in which I was stuck and was not managing to get out of on my own despite my efforts. I highly recommend Chiqui, she is a wonderful professional.”
- Spanish university professor and avid traveler
"Thanks to her (Chiqui) I can genuinenly say that my life is transforming before my eyes. I wholeheartedly and without hesitation recommend her to anyone who is ready to move from knowing to becoming.”
- Expat in Spain
FAQs
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