For global professionals in FranceYou have the career.
You have the address.
Now find the life.
Expat transition coaching for professionals in France — guided by Dr. Amy Franks, a U.S.-trained psychiatrist with background in immigration research. She has developed a framework called Cultural Identity Integration to help people working in tech, finance, and corporate who feel successful on paper but invisible in real life.
"Where global professionals come home to themselves."
Beyond settling in. Truly belonging.
Most expat support stops at logistics — visas, apartments, neighborhood guides. Cultural Identity Integration addresses what nobody else does: what the move quietly does to your sense of self.
Clarify
Honest reflection. We get clear on what the transition is actually doing to your sense of self — beneath the surface of "it's fine." Together we identify your specific challenges and build a roadmap to move through them with intention.
Reconstruct
The core of the work. Using Cultural Identity Integration, you move from feeling fragmented — caught between who you were at home and who you're becoming in France — toward a confident, integrated sense of self where both coexist naturally.
Integrate
Insight becomes reality. You leave feeling an integrated identity — professionally confident, socially connected, and culturally fluent in France without losing the self you arrived with.
A coach who has lived every part of this transition.
I'm Amy. I'm a U.S.-trained physician and the founder of The Expatriate Society — and I know exactly what it feels like to arrive in France with impressive credentials, high expectations, and a quiet sense of being completely lost.
Drawing on my background as a psychiatrist working various hospitals and clinics, as well as my cross-cultural research and my own firsthand experience relocating in France, I developed Cultural Identity Integration — a structured coaching framework that helps global professionals rebuild their identity, confidence, and sense of belonging in France. The professionals I work with are high-achieving and motivated. They don't need to be fixed — they need the right guide.
Credential
Board-Certified Psychiatrist in the US
Credential
Former Chief Resident University of Colorado
Credential
Published Immigration Research
You didn't move to France just to survive it.
Every client journey begins with a free 15-minute discovery call. No commitment, no pressure — just an honest conversation about where you are and where you want to be.
Schedule your discovery call