Resolving Anxiety, Stress, and Identity Struggles
for Sensitive and Empathic
Adult Third Culture Kids
Find lasting relief from the unique challenges that come from feeling out of place. Feel more connected and at ease in your relationships, decisions, and daily life through a gentle and effective root-cause approach.
Helping Fellow Sensitive and Empathic TCKs Resolve Challenges with a Supportive, Step-by-Step Approach
Moving Beyond Coping To True Resolution
For sensitive and empathic Third Culture Kids (TCKs), resolving identity issues often involves moving beyond approaches that focus solely on the positive aspects of your TCK experiences or centering your identity entirely around being a TCK. It may also mean reconsidering the idea that your struggles are permanent traits you simply have to manage. Together, we can explore the root causes of these challenges, helping you to move forward without feeling defined by them.
Understanding the Root Causes of Identity Struggles
The identity struggles, anxiety, stress, and emotional challenges you experience often reflect deeper, unresolved causes. These root causes can stem from past experiences that leave behind deeply ingrained emotions and beliefs, shaping how you view yourself and your life. By gently exploring and understanding these influences, we can create space for meaningful change and growth.
Uncovering the Self That's Already There
Discovering your sense of self isn’t about building a new identity — it’s about letting go of what’s keeping you from naturally being yourself. Through coaching and a gentle, effective mind-body approach, we’ll work to release the emotions and beliefs that may be contributing to your struggles. This process can help you feel at ease with who you are and the unique qualities that make you, you.
Recognizing the Role of Sensitivity and Empathy
Sensitivity and empathy are unique qualities that bring depth and awareness, but can also intensify emotional and identity challenges, especially for TCKs. Together, we’ll explore how these traits influence your experiences, uncovering their role in shaping both the difficulties you face and the opportunities for creating a life that feels aligned and fulfilling to you.
Focusing on Immediate Challenges, One Step at a Time
Rather than tackling everything at once, we’ll focus on the specific challenges that bring stress or anxiety into your daily life. Whether it’s navigating social or professional situations, addressing relationship conflicts, or overcoming self-doubt in decision-making, this step-by-step approach creates tangible progress. Over time, addressing these areas helps us uncover and resolve the root causes of identity struggles, guiding you toward a life that feels grounded, connected, and true to yourself.
Who I Support
Sensitive and Empathic Adult TCKs
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A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is broadly described as someone who grew up in a culture different from the one in which their parents were raised.
(Learn more about this term.)
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I support a wide range of adult TCKs, including:
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Children of immigrants (1.5, 2nd, and 3rd generation)
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Children of expatriates who moved into another culture at least once
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Sensitive and empathic individuals are often highly perceptive, kind, and feel and think deeply about their experiences in the world.
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What unites my clients is a shared sense of feeling different — whether from their peers, family, or the larger environment in which they grew up. For sensitive and empathic TCKs, this sense of difference is often more complex, as their heightened sensitivity and empathy can deepen feelings of disconnection, anxiety, and identity struggles.
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I work with clients remotely across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and locally in Brunswick, Maine, USA.
Is This Work For You?
Living In Clarity is for individuals who want to:
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Break free from recurring anxiety, self-doubt, and second-guessing to feel more assured and at ease with themselves.
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Resolve communication and relationship challenges with family, friends, or colleagues.
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Overcome social discomfort and anxiety, feeling more relaxed and comfortable in interactions and environments.
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Move beyond people-pleasing tendencies to confidently honor their own needs and desires without guilt or fear of rejection.
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Let go of cultural labels and feel a natural ease with who they are.
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Choose which aspects of their background to appreciate and embrace.
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Make decisions about life with a sense of clarity, assurance, and direction.
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Discover people, places, and experiences that bring connection, joy, and support.
If you're seeking a way to better understand your experiences and move toward meaningful change, this work offers a supportive, collaborative space to grow.​
As a sensitive and empathic TCK myself, I understand the unique and complex challenges that we experience while growing up and how difficult it can be to resolve resulting identity issues and emotional struggles.
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I use a collaborative, compassionate approach to help others navigate the intricate layers of their experiences and find resolution to these challenges.
Meet Akiyo Kodera
Identity Coach | Anxiety & Stress Resolution Coach| Certified EFT Practitioner
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Gentle Support to Get You Started
Feeling unsure but curious? Let’s take one small step together. This session is a supportive space to explore what’s been challenging you lately — from situations giving you anxiety and stress, decisions you’re unsure how to navigate, to overarching identity struggles.
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Together, we’ll uncover new possibilities for moving forward in a way that feels safe, aligned, and entirely at your pace.
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