Navigate Life Transitions with Clarity and Support
Life transitions can be exciting—but they can also feel overwhelming, especially when you’re adjusting to a new culture, job, school, or relationship dynamic. In Dubai’s fast-paced and diverse environment, even positive changes can trigger emotional distress. If you’ve recently relocated, started a new role, entered a different life stage, or faced a major disruption, you might be experiencing anxiety, sadness, difficulty concentrating, or a loss of identity. These symptoms may point to adjustment difficulties that require support.
At MapleTree Psychotherapy Center Dubai, we help you process change in healthy ways and move forward with resilience and emotional clarity.
When Life Feels Unsettled
Common triggers for adjustment difficulties include:
- Relocating to Dubai from another country
- Starting a new job or changing careers
- Entering university or transitioning into adulthood
- Divorce, separation, or ending a significant relationship
- Becoming a parent or an empty nester
- Losing a loved one or facing financial stress
- Receiving a medical diagnosis or undergoing surgery
- Shifting into retirement or midlife changes
These life events may disrupt your routines, sense of stability, or identity. Therapy can help you find your footing again.
How Adjustment Disorder Therapy Helps
Our licensed therapists offer:
- Emotional processing of transition-related stress
- Coping strategies to manage anxiety, sadness, or irritability
- Guidance in decision-making and goal-setting
- Support in finding purpose and personal direction amid change
- Strength-based approaches to rebuild confidence and inner security
- Skills to regulate emotional ups and downs triggered by transitions
We provide a compassionate space where your feelings are validated and explored without judgment.
Our Therapeutic Approach
We tailor therapy to your unique experience using:
- Psychodynamic therapy to explore deeper identity shifts or unresolved patterns
- Mindfulness and grounding techniques to manage emotional overwhelm
- Narrative therapy to help you re-author your personal story during change
- Solution-Focused Therapy to empower action and adaptability
- EMDR to process and reframe distress, reduce reactivity, and promote adaptive coping
- ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for navigating uncertainty and discomfort
- Existential Therapy to explore personal meaning in the face of transition.
- AEDP and BWRT to accelerate emotional healing in the aftermath of change and reduce distressing responses to new situations
Who We Help
This service is ideal for adults, teens, university students, expats, professionals, and retirees facing life changes in Dubai. Our diverse team offers support in multiple languages including English, Arabic, French, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Finnish, and more—helping you feel heard and understood, no matter where you’re from.
Begin Your Adjustment Journey Today
Support can make all the difference during periods of change. Whether you’re new to Dubai or navigating personal crossroads, we’re here to help. Learn more on our Individual Therapy & Mental Well-being page, meet our Dubai psychologists, or Find a Therapist that aligns with your needs. Ready to talk? Contact us to schedule your first appointment.
Dr. Katerine LeMay, Ph.D., C.Psych. (CAN)
Clinical Psychologist/Director and FOUNDER
Dr. JP Arzul, Ph.D. (SA)
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Ava Ghasemi, PSY.D., C.Psych. (CAN)
Clinical Psychologist
Matleena Vanhanen, M.A. (uk)
Counselling Psychologist
Dr. Tima El Jamil, Ph,D. (USA)
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Sarah Sease, Psy.D. (USA)
Clinical Psychologist
Karen Anne Hope Andrews, M.Clin.Psych. (SA)
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Mohamed Tal, Ph,D., (SLO)
Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst
Dr. Clarice Mendonca-King, PsyD (USA)
Clinical Psychologist & Neuropsychologist
Hanadi Beydoun, M.A., (LEB)
Psychologist
Our Team