A family crisis on an island is a particular kind of alone.
You may not have family here. The system is not the one you grew up with. The language of the referral letter is not your language. And the community is small enough that asking for help feels like telling everyone.
What is different about being in crisis here
Two systems at once
Many international families are half in the Spanish system and half still tied to the UK or elsewhere. Records sit in two countries, nobody holds the whole picture, and each side assumes the other is handling it.
Language under pressure
Understanding a diagnosis in a second language while frightened is not the same as speaking the language socially. I sit in the middle and make sure you actually understand what is being proposed before you agree to it.
A small island
Word travels. Discretion is not a luxury here, it is a condition of asking for help at all. Nothing about your family is discussed outside our conversations.
Who I work with on the island
- Resident international and expat families in Palma, the southwest, the north, and the interior.
- Families who moved here for a better life and are now facing addiction, a mental health crisis, or a sudden death without a support network.
- Parents of adult children — a son or daughter in Mallorca while the family is elsewhere, or the reverse.
- Families arriving from abroad for treatment and needing someone independent alongside them.
What I am not
I am not a therapist, a doctor, a clinic, or an emergency service. I do not treat anyone and I do not give medical advice. If someone is in immediate danger, call 112.
What I do is architectural. I work out what the situation actually is, find the professionals who genuinely fit it — here, in mainland Spain, in the UK, or further — and stay with the family until the arrangement holds without me.
Start with one conversation
A short private inquiry, then a conversation. Nothing is committed to and nothing is shared.