Resources
Third Culture Kid Care and TCK 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
In-Person Mental Health Retreats
Alongside - Michigan, USA - Intensive mental health retreats for TCKs and their globally mobile ministry families.
Link Care - California, USA - faith-based counseling for global workers and their families.
Diagnostic Testing / Assessment
Share Conference - educational assistance and testing
Therapy Solutions - ADHD assessment online
The Truman Group - Psychological testing and assessment for expats
Psychiatry
Valeo Global - Online psychiatric assessment
The Truman Group - Online psychiatric services for adults abroad
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
TCKs with Special Needs
Learning to Flourish - TCK dyslexia specialist, Katie Fowle
Jenilee Goodwin - Neurodiverse Third Culture Kids
Graduating and College-age TCKs
KC360 - Navigating College Search and Admission podcast
Barnabas International - Connecting events and support for young adult third culture kids
Mu Kappa - Christian campus organization for Third Culture Kids
Education Support
Safe Passages Across Networks (SPAN) - Supporting school transitions
Natasha Winnard - Consultant supporting globally mobile kids’ educational success
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 Barnabas International
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.