Global Therapists Program
LET'S MOVE TOGETHER
The G.L.O.B.A.L. Therapists Program
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Graduate students
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Learning implementation of therapeutic Interventions
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Openness to cross-cultural practices
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Bravery to encounter new experiences
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Awareness of the impact of facilitating integrative methods in diverse populations
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Legacy for connecting mental healthcare across the world
The Global Therapists Program Initiative (fiscally sponsored by AnchoRRa) bridges the global mental health gap by connecting graduate students in mental health fields with clinics worldwide.
Our Mission
Our Mission is twofold:
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To provide complementary therapeutic services to children in need and offer graduate students the opportunity to earn clinical hours in diverse, real-world settings.
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To ensure accessibility across cultural, language, and social barriers through the use of integrative mind-body therapies.
Our initiative is reshaping how therapists engage in global mental health work, cultivating a new generation of culturally competent, globally minded professionals. Ultimately, we are committed to fostering long-term, impactful change in the mental health landscape worldwide.
Let’s Make an Impact
The Global Therapists Program is making an impact on the lives of children and families around the world. We believe that everyone deserves access to quality mental health care, and our goal is to make that a reality.
This initiative was created to bridge the gap between the mental health needs of children and the access to qualified therapeutic care. The goal is to place learners (Graduate Students), who have chosen the educational and career path to serve children in need, with those families in clinics seeking care for their children at a professional level.
The Global Therapists Program involves supporting a cross-cultural relationship of mutual understanding, connection, and growth. To do this, the therapist must first step into a new environment with humility. They must listen, observe cultural practices, beliefs, and movement patterns, and wonder with openness for collaboration. This allows the therapist to develop compassion and openness for therapeutic alignment and overall mental health. It is a path through pathology, ease in disease, and a lens for challenges that arise. Overall, the goal of the program is to bring clarity to the mental health crisis. From a place of abundance, we can perceive partnerships that promote health for children all over the world.
What We Do
Global Outreach
Train future mental health professionals: Graduate students receive hands-on training in therapeutic support, guided by board-certified supervisors with a focus on cultural inclusion and best practices.
Support communities in need: We provide high-quality mental health care to children around the world that lack access to these services.
Foster cultural competence: Our program encourages open dialogue and learning about different cultures to create culturally competent therapists who can adapt their practice to meet the needs of children from all backgrounds.
Win-win: Graduate students receive hours towards certification and licensure while programs get complimentary support, outreach, and awareness that they deserve and need.
Together, Let’s Build a Legacy of GLOBAL Healing
Cultural Competence
Once global placement is secured, the country of origin will provide an in-service on cultural connections, covering beliefs, values, cultural preferences, and mental health history to support the graduate student's integration into the selected program. The graduate student receives supervision by a board-certified supervisor with best practices in mind -- cultural/diversity inclusion, observational hours, and clinic/supervisor feedback based on graduate program requirements. The locations have been selected based on the clinic's request for care and collaboration.
Once the therapist has invested time and received cultural guidance, they can articulate mental health support from an embodied modality. This means placing words into action through movement. The interventions meet all social, economic, religious, ethnic, and literacy levels, as movement is our innate way of communicating. All experiences are felt in the body and expressed through movement. The supervisor (with clinic input/honor) guides the learner (graduate therapist) in a contemplative manner to express questions, create meaning, and build a space for presence and attunement. With weekly supervision, the clinic, child/client, intern, and family build a dynamic team that is carried across the environment and generalized/maintained in daily life.
Our Story
Global Therapists was founded by Dr. Lori Baudino, a practicing clinician with over two decades of experience in mental health care. Dr. Baudino's passion for helping others led her to embark on a journey of practicum training abroad, where she worked to create healing opportunities for people in need of mental health care.
In order to gain the qualifications and placements she needed to make a meaningful impact, Dr. Baudino forged her own path, hiring her own supervisor and creating her own internship while fulfilling all the necessary requirements. Through this process, she realized the immense potential for global collaboration in mental health care and founded Global Therapists to connect universities and treatment centers across the globe and provide graduate students with the international placement, supervision, cultural training, and integrative therapeutic experiences they need to become qualified mental health professionals.
CONTACT GTP
Want to learn more? Email GlobalTherapist.Info@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram @global_therapists.