🇳🇱 Eindhoven
Netherlands
A small city with large companies, and a life that turns around one employer
Eindhoven is the heart of Dutch technology. Many Iranians here are engineers or researchers who came for one specific company. The city is small, the work is good, and that combination builds a particular vulnerability: if the job goes wrong, everything goes wrong.
When the city and the job become the same thing
Eindhoven is a small city whose economy turns around a few large technology companies. Your colleague is your neighbour, your friend works in the same building, and weekend gatherings are full of people who spent the working day with you.
That closeness is warm as long as everything goes well. If you have a problem with your manager, if your project is cancelled, if you want to change jobs, you discover that your entire social network is attached to the same company.
For an immigrant whose residency is also tied to that employment contract, the triple dependency of job, friends and status produces a background anxiety that does not switch off even on good days.
The engineering mind, and a problem that will not solve
Many clients here are engineers who have spent years trying to locate and fix how they feel as though it were a bug: read the books, changed the habits, added the exercise. When it did not work, they concluded the fault was in them.
Anxiety and depression are not engineering problems. Working on them needs a relationship rather than a solution, and for many people that simple point is where it starts.
The Dutch route, and a faster option
The process is the national one: the huisarts, the POH-GGZ, and if needed a GGZ referral with a wait of several months. In a city the size of Eindhoven, English-speaking therapists are scarcer than in the Randstad and Farsi-speaking ones are effectively nonexistent.
Online therapy in Farsi removes that geographical limit entirely.
What Farsi-speaking newcomers in Eindhoven find hardest
Job, friends and residency all tied to one employer
Long hours in the technology industry
Trying to solve emotional problems by analysis
A small city with limited treatment options
GGZ waits, and no Farsi-speaking therapist available
Social isolation outside the workplace
A relationship that is not connected to your employer
An Emotral therapist is not inside your workplace social network, does not sit in the same building, and will not be at the next team party. For many people in Eindhoven that distance is itself part of feeling safe.
Sessions are in Farsi, and starting requires no referral.
Farsi-speaking therapists available to you
Every Emotral session is online, so these therapists — wherever in the world they live — are available to Iranians in Eindhoven, and you see the session time in your own local clock.
Lena Ebadi
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Individual Therapy (Adults)
Dr. Mojgan Shariatpanahi
Individual Therapy (Adults), Family Therapy, Couples Therapy
Dr. Jalal Khademi
PhD in Psychology, Depression, Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Dr. Fatemeh Mesgarian
Analytic Psychotherapy, Individual Therapy (Adults), Individual Counseling
Dr. Farzaneh Abroshan
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, Group Therapy
Dr. Farzad Rasoulof
Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)