Andrea specializes in the design and facilitation of cross-cultural programs for international business transferees and their accompanying family members and career planning and job search assistance. She brings to this work a wealth of first-hand experience.

With her IBM executive husband and three sons, she joined in a 30-year odyssey of expatriate assignments in San Francisco, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Taichung (Taiwan), Florence, and Seattle. 

After personally organizing and overseeing each international move, Andrea researched schooling options, hired and supervised household staff, joined support organizations, studied local languages (Portuguese, Cantonese, and Indonesian), and created a succession of homes for her spouse and children. In addition, in São Paulo she taught English to Brazilian executives. In Hong Kong, she opened a small export clothing business. In Jakarta, she directed programs at a community center that offered services, classes, and support to people of 52 nationalities. In Taichung, she taught at the American school while building communication competencies with her Chinese assistant. And in Florence, she worked as a cultural consultant traveling to England, Hong Kong and China.

Andrea D Davis,    MA  LMHC

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After returning to the United States, she earned a masters degree in psychology from Antioch University Seattle focusing her studies on cultural communications and career development. Besides providing expatriate coaching for other consultancies, Andrea has her own private coaching business, Transition-Resources with a focus on cultural awareness for clarity and reconciliation and career consulting with individuals and groups. She has been trained to interrupt such profiles as the MBTI, DISC, FIRO-B, CCAI, Values Clarification and Articulating Your Dependable Strengths which Andrea uses to support clients in their personal and professional growth. Andrea resides in Seattle, Washington, where she writes about the pros and cons of the expat lifestyle and how it has affected each family member. She is the Past-President of the Seattle Counselors Association, a professional organization that supports a diverse group of mental health counselors to continue growing in their work through monthly educational opportunities.