Turning emotions into tools for change.
Helping international talent, workplaces, and communities address the overlooked emotional barriers to integration — fostering resilience, belonging, and long-term retention.
About Us
The Emotional Health Project was founded on the belief that true inclusion happens when both international talent and employers are equipped to navigate the emotional side of change — not just the logistical. We were created to bridge a gap we see everywhere: the missing conversation and action needed around the emotional barriers to integration and retention. These hidden challenges shape whether people move to, stay, thrive, and belong in their new country. By combining personal experience with professional expertise, we bring a first-of-its-kind perspective to migration challenges. Our work strengthens inclusion, retention, and belonging, adding meaningful value to national and regional strategies — and positioning host countries as destinations of choice for skilled labour.
Our Mission
Migration is more than logistics; it’s an emotional journey.
Our mission is to address the emotional barriers and adjustments that influence whether skilled migrants choose to move to, stay, thrive, and belong in their new country — or ultimately return home. By doing so, we help position host countries as destinations of choice for global talent, strengthening their competitiveness and supporting long-term integration and retention goals.
Our Approach
Our approach is grounded in the Emotional Logic framework. We help international talent and workplaces understand the useful purpose of emotions and how this strengthens their ability to adapt to change. By addressing overlooked emotional barriers early, we create the conditions for people not only to move to and arrive in a new country, but also to stay, thrive, and belong.
Through our work, we equip skilled migrants and workplaces with practical, tools to learn how understanding the useful purpose of emotions can help them:
Adapt to change with confidence and self-compassion.
Recognise and recover hurt values.
Turn unpleasant emotions into purposeful drivers of change.
Adjust after setbacks and move from stuckness and confusion to clarity.
Rebuild confidence, purpose, and relationships.
These tools form part of a lifelong learning process that helps people move out of stuckness, foster resilience, and build meaningful connections. By strengthening emotional resilience, we can make integration not just possible, but lasting. In doing so, we contribute to inclusive recruitment, better integration, and long-term retention of skilled talent— creating more sustainable workplaces and communities and enhancing a host country’s competitiveness in attracting and keeping global talent.
Target Groups
This work is grounded in an understanding of the emotional barriers on both sides of integration. International talent and employers alike may experience a range of unpleasant emotions — such as shock, panic, anger, frustration, guilt, denial, or depression — that can hinder inclusion, retention, and long-term success.Through the Emotional Logic approach, we help both groups recognise the useful purpose behind these emotions, understand the values at risk, and turn emotional reactions into constructive action. This lifelong learning process enables people to adapt to change, move forward from setbacks, and foster positive change in ways
that strengthen relationships, inclusion, and resilience.
Contact Us
We’d love to hear from you — whether you’re an immigrant, an employer, or a potential partner. Let’s explore how we can work together to strengthen integration,resilience, and belonging.
General Enquiries
Email: info@emotionalhealthproject.com
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Partnerships and Collaboration
We welcome opportunities to collaborate with organisations, community groups, and
businesses that share our vision for inclusive, sustainable integration. Contact us tostart the conversation.