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 complimentary 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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Focus on integrative mind-body therapies to ensure accessibility across cultural, language, and social barriers.
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.
Together, Let's Make An Impact
Global Therapists is making a significant 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 locations have been selected based on the clinic's request for care and collaboration. 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.
Global Therapists Guiding Principles
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We observe and reflect on the conception and concerns of global placement
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We support the feedback and communication styles prompted by the selected international placement
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We aim to learn about different cultures
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We aim to adapt practice to meet the needs of children from all backgrounds.
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We aim to hold space for the unification of health
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We aim to be an accompaniment to the child & clinic
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We aim to celebrate and foster connection with the placement community
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We aim to identify the universal patterns of the body, movement, and health
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We strive for cultural alignment and differentiation.
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We aim to use observational skills and connected language
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We are culturally grounded by movement and the mind/body connection
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We aim to hold space for growth, harmony, and healing
Support for Intern
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Reduce implicit bias
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Reduce and prevent burnout
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Increase engagement
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Cultivate presence & connection
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Support acculturation & homesickness
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Foster open dialogue and ongoing learning
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Collaboration with Graduate school & Local Clinic treatment teams
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.
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.
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.
Cultural Competence
Global Therapists are making a significant 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 complementary care for their children at a professional level.
The locations have been selected based on the need for care and collaborative support.
Dance/Movement Therapy
Our Graduate Students primarily focus on Integrative Approaches within the modality of Dance/Movement Therapy: DMT is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to foster the social, cognitive, physical and mental integration of the individual..
Dance/Movement Therapy is an innovative therapeutic approach that integrates movement and creative expression to promote healing and well-being. This non-verbal and embodied form of therapy provides a unique avenue for self-expression, self-discovery, and personal growth. Dance/Movement Therapy has been shown to improve emotional regulation, enhance self-esteem, reduce stress, and foster overall mental and physical well-being, making it a powerful tool for healing. Visit ADTA.org for more information.

Get Involved
We are looking for collaboration across multiple areas. Select from the list below.
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.
