Mindfulness & Compassion Coaching
Personalized Support for Navigating Life Abroad
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Feeling overwhelmed or stuck in a major life transition
You are navigating a big life change – like a break-up, burnout, or a health issue – while living abroad. You are managing not only its emotional toll, but also the absence of familiar support (family, language, cultural fluency) and the confusion of complex systems (visas, healthcare, or labor laws).
In mindfulness & compassion coaching, we slow down. Through guided meditation, embodied inquiry and gentle conversation, you begin to feel more grounded, meet your experience with tenderness, tap into your inner wisdom, and gain clarity on your needs and next steps.
Craving support that understands your context
You’re emotionally aware, intellectually curious, and growth-oriented, but the support you’ve found so far doesn’t fully get your multicultural experience. You want to feel less alone in your inner work, and more supported as you navigate complex questions.
I've lived and worked across three cultures — Turkey, USA and France — and many of my loved ones come from many other cultures. I not only bring deep experience as a mindfulness & compassion teacher and coach, but also as a foreigner who understands the layers of navigating change in a multicultural life.
Struggling to apply what you know
You’ve learned the tools - meditation, journaling, movement - but it’s hard to turn them into lasting change. You lack the inspiration and accountability to make it stick.
These sessions offer structure, compassion, and a co-regulating presence. Together, we clarify what matters, gently rebuild your rhythm, and adapt practices to your real life — closing the gap between knowing and doing.
Session Details
60 minutes
Online via Zoom
Flexible Schedule
English, Turkish, French
How often and for how long do we meet?
Real change takes time. It takes a few sessions to settle in, build trust, and begin bringing what we explore into your daily life.
Most clients find that a real shift happens around session 6, and that the change sticks (becomes who you are and how you move through life) around session 12.
You are welcome to book a single session if you'd prefer to try coaching before committing to a longer journey.
We can meet weekly, every other week, or whatever rhythm fits your life. Weekly sessions build momentum and help you stay connected to the work; more time between sessions lets life unfold before we meet again.
What happens in a session?
These sessions explore your chosen topic like therapy, but we spend a big chunk of the session meditating (mindfulness + self-compassion). The focus is on somatic awareness, and connecting to your inner wisdom rather than just talking. If traditional talk therapy wasn't helpful—sometimes talking increases suffering—this approach might be worth a try. If you're currently in therapy, these sessions are wonderfully complementary.
Each session unfolds in response to what’s present in your life. We might:
Your Investment
The 12-Session Journey
€80 per session. Payment plans available.
Real, lasting change in the areas you came here to work on. Mindfulness & compassion begin to feel like who you are and how you move through life.
Includes:
- Guided meditation recordings and resources (books, videos, articles) to use at home
- Email check-ins between sessions
- Worksheets we work on together
- A reflection from me at session 6: what has shifted, what's ahead
- Free access to my weekly mindfulness & compassion groups for the full duration (a community of others living abroad)
The 6-Session Journey
€90 per session. Payment plans available.
Learn real tools, gather insight, and begin to sense a shift.
Includes:
- Guided meditation recordings and resources (books, videos, articles) to use at home
- Email check-ins between sessions
- Worksheets we work on together
Single Session
One focused session to explore what's present, or to experience this way of working before committing to a longer journey.
Includes:
- Guided meditation recordings and resources (books, videos, articles) to use at home
Our financial situations vary widely, especially when building a new life abroad. If these prices are prohibitive, please reach out to me at hi@zeynepesin.com to discuss a sliding scale and/or a payment plan.
Ready to begin?
Let's see if we're a good fit. Book a free, 30-minute introductory session with me. We’ll discuss where you are and how mindfulness coaching can support you. This is a no-pressure, no-commitment conversation.
If you’ve met with me before, you can book your next session directly here:
About Me
I’m a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Coach shaped by many homes and life transitions. I bring 13 years of personal practice, and in depth-training from renowned teachers like Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. I help people navigate big changes when living abroad, survive and celebrate life away from home. Mindfulness changed my life. I hope it supports you, too.
Testimonials
Ready to begin?
Let's see if we're a good fit. Book a free, 30-minute introductory session with me. We’ll discuss where you are and how mindfulness coaching can support you. This is a no-pressure, no-commitment conversation.
If you’ve met with me before, you can book your next session directly here:
FAQs
You might be navigating one or more of these:
- health issues, loved ones getting sick or dying,
- separation (break-up, divorce, estrangement from family),
- becoming a parent, infertility issues, expansions of family (pregnancy, adoption, merged families),
- relocation, life split across multiple cities or countries,
- traumatic events,
- burn out, loss of purpose, career change, unemployment, retirement,
- moving abroad, obtaining a visa or citizenship,
- the loss of democracy, safety or dignity in your country,
- anxiety about ecology and global warming…
This list is not exhaustive. If your specific circumstance isn't listed, please reach out to me at hi@zeynepesin.com to see how I can support you.
No. As long as you are open to trying and learning, no previous experience is necessary. In fact, these sessions are a great, guided way to start your mindfulness & compassion practice.
No, they are highly complementary. Many clients work with both a mindfulness & compassion coach and a therapist. Our sessions strengthen your inner exploration by offering tangible mindfulness & compassion tools and new ways of relating to your experience. This focus is particularly supportive if your therapist is not trained in or focused on somatic and mindfulness & compassion practices, or if you are not finding traditional talk therapy supportive (sometimes talking doesn't help or even increases suffering).
Feel free to bring a notebook — many people find it helpful to jot down insights or things they want to remember.
You may find it supportive to be in a calm environment where you have privacy.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic framework developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. It works with the idea that we all have different inner parts, such as an inner critic or a younger burdened self. This isn't a new idea: mindfulness and Buddhist tradition point to the same concept, and my teachers speak to it directly. What IFS does is take it further, offering a structured way to become aware of these parts and approach them with curiosity and compassion. This helps you stop being the part, and rest as the bigger self, the larger awareness that holds it. In our sessions, I may gently invite you to notice and turn toward your inner parts.