Relocating sounds exciting, and in many ways it is. Yet, no one prepares you for the invisible transitions that accompany a move.
It’s a layered experience.
We often start by tackling visible, practical problems – what to pack, where to live, how to manage work or visas. We voice the logistical questions and thoughts that fill our heads, but what often remains unspoken are the emotions behind those decisions.
Every practical choice carries with it hidden fears, hopes, and unresolved tensions.
Decision-Making & Planning
Practical: Where to go, when to move, how to plan
Cognitive: Clarifying priorities, envisioning different futures
Emotional: Fear of making the wrong choice, guilt, uncertainty
Emotional Readiness & Resilience
Practical: Creating routines, knowing when to ask for help
Cognitive: Building resilience, managing expectations, and self-regulation
Emotional: Homesickness, emotional fatigue, regret, doubt
Logistics & Daily Life
Practical: Housing, healthcare, transport, legal requirements
Cognitive: Navigating systems, staying organized, managing admin fatigue
Emotional: Decision paralysis, constant adaptation pressure
Relationships & Support System
Practical: Meeting people, creating friendships, maintaining long-distance ties
Cognitive: Building new trust, overcoming cultural differences, staying open
Emotional: Loneliness, disconnection, craving real community
Workplace & Professional Adaptation
Practical: Job search, language at work, remote work, resumes, and interviews
Cognitive: Navigating new hierarchies, communication styles
Emotional: Feeling underestimated, culture shock at work, career disruption
Language & Communication
Practical: Survival language, daily conversations, long-term language goals
Cognitive: Perceptions of intelligence, identity in multiple languages
Emotional: Fear of making mistakes, shame
Belonging & Identity
Practical: Finding your place socially and culturally, navigating dual identities
Cognitive: Redefining who you are, shifting values, recalibrating your sense of self
Emotional: Feeling like you don’t fit, nostalgia, self-doubt, grief over identity shifts
Partner Moves / Family Impact
Emotional: Loss of autonomy, imbalance, grief, resentment
Cognitive: Reclaiming agency, redefining purpose
Practical: Building an independent structure
How Can I Support You
Migration happens for many reasons – searching for opportunity, following a partner, escaping a place you don’t feel safe or welcome, or simply exploring a new chapter.
Relocation
Before the move, we often begin with urgent practical concerns: paperwork, finances, timelines, housing, and more. But beneath every task is a layer of emotions such as fears of the unknown, tension with loved ones, excitement mixed with guilt or doubt.
Integration
After arrival, the questions shift: This is great, but what’s still missing? Why do I feel so out of place? How do I manage everything when I’m already stretched thin?
Values that Guide My Work
Welcoming the Evolving Self
Respecting your past, present, and emerging future.
Staying connected to who you were, who you are, and who you are becoming.
Respecting the richness of your own background and the differences of others.
Creating connection by staying true to yourself and welcoming the uniqueness in those around you.
Embracing Uniqueness
Courageous Belonging
Respecting your choice to show up, to try, to belong.
Building connection through the courage to be seen, and to see others as they are.
Respecting the ties that remain, even across distance and change.
Nurturing connections with those from your past and with fellow travelers forging their own path.
United in Being Apart
Who’s Mila?
I’ve lived many lives in one lifetime—musician, tester, project lead, coach.
I’ve moved across countries, changed careers, and rebuilt my identity more than once.
From Belgrade-Tel Aviv-Berlin to Lisbon, each move asked new questions of me—about belonging, purpose, and how to start again without losing myself. That journey brought me here: to coaching people like you who are navigating their own in-between moments.
My work is rooted in curiosity, empathy, and practical support. I’m certified in transformational coaching, clean language, systemic modeling, and group facilitation, but more than that, I bring the experience of someone who’s walked this path.
Others about me
Her work is hard to express in words. Intuitive, curious, holding the space, asking the right question at the right time—each conversation with Mila is a smooth journey into your own self-discovery, allowing you to see things you wouldn’t be able to see on your own.
Tina, Croatia to Germany
Truly a gem, with lots of hands-on experience. Highly recommended.
I was moving back to my hometown and preparing to become a single parent. I wasn’t sure how people would react, and I carried a lot of doubt.
Elena, Israel to Russia
Mila’s calm, non-judgmental presence helped me feel accepted and supported.
Our sessions gave me the clarity and confidence I needed to move forward.
She is friendly, present, very good energetic listener and very accurate in the reflection she gives! The process she followed and the correct questions was a magical combination to unlock my thinking and design the steps i wanted to follow. After each session i knew exactly what i want, and how to implement it! Thank you Mila for this wonderful experience!
Ana, Greece
Mila’s style is wonderful: she listened and partnered up with me to find a solution to my challenge. She brings structure to the process, helping to stay focused. Mila is a dedicated coach who made me feel at ease and kept me focused on the goal I hoped to achieve. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have had Mila as my coach!
Olga, Netherlands to Portugal
Mila has a very considered, thoughtful, logical style that really makes you think and reflect on the topic at hand from a number of angles. I was able to map out some pretty key projects and meetings that were happening at work at the time and be really prepared for them having deep dived into what I needed to do and what could be missing!
Nicola, UK to UAE
I had the relocation and integration coaching with Mila, and for me it was also a rewarding transformative journey. Mila is super inspiring and I absolutely reccommend working with her to anyone thinking about moving (abroad)!
Aleksandra, Serbia to Spain
