"Moving to a new community may be one of the most stress-producing experiences a person or family can face.” 

Psychological counseling and therapy for foreigners and non Spanish speakers is an important and underserved healthcare need in all the existent cosmopolitan cities.

There is always a great difficulty in finding an adequate English speaking psychotherapist where you are able to express yourself in your own language and to help you manage and cope with all the variety of problems that one may find when one is abroad. Mensalus is a place where this can be found.

Some of the main issues of moving to new surroundings are firstly, the need to adapt to a completely different culture and secondly the language barrier, where in Barcelona a person may find it twice as hard due to two different languages.