Online social and emotional coaching for children and teenagers growing up between countries.
One to one online coaching for ages 7 to 18, for the friendships, confidence and motivation that come with an international childhood.
Academic confidence and emotional steadiness, wherever you are.
- London Teacher of the Year Award 2021
- BSc Psychology and Qualified Teacher Status
- One to one online coaching, across time zones.
At a glance
- Main service
- One-to-one online coaching for children and teenagers
- Ages
- Coaching for ages 7 to 18
- Areas of support
- Friendships, social confidence, emotional regulation, executive functioning, organisation, school transitions and independence
- SEN and neurodiversity
- Psychology-informed support adapted for autistic children, children with ADHD and children with other additional needs
- Format
- Individual online sessions tailored around the child’s strengths, needs and goals
- Availability
- Sessions arranged around the child’s school day and local time zone.
- Practitioner
- Ruby Cole, qualified teacher, BSc Psychology (Hons), former Assistant Psychologist and London Teacher of the Year 2021
- Scope
- Education-led, psychology-informed coaching. This is not therapy, counselling, psychological assessment or clinical treatment
Where and when Ruby works
Ruby works with families in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and works across time zones. Coaching is delivered online, one to one, at a time agreed around your child's school day.
If you are not sure whether your time zone works, ask Ruby.
Coaching comes first
Coaching is the main way Ruby supports international and expat families: structured, one to one support for the friendships, confidence, motivation and sense of belonging that come with growing up between countries. It runs from age 7 to 18.
Settling into a new country takes more than finding a new school.
A move abroad can look fine from the outside while a child is quietly carrying a lot. Coaching gives them a steady, structured space to work it through, one to one and online, with someone who understands both children and change.
Coaching runs from age 7 to 18, so it continues through secondary school and into the teenage years, which is often when the questions about identity and belonging surface most clearly.
Children who grow up between countries and cultures, sometimes described as third culture kids, often carry a rich sense of perspective and adaptability. Alongside that, they may be working out where home is, how to keep friendships across distance, and how to belong in a new place while still feeling connected to the last one. Coaching gives them space to make sense of that experience and to build the confidence and social skills that travel with them. There is more on friendship and social confidence coaching and on support with transitions and moving school.
Settling into a new school and country
Making friends in a new school, joining a class where everything works differently, and finding a footing when home and school feel very different.
Identity and belonging
What it means to grow up between cultures and countries, and how children and teenagers can feel secure in who they are wherever they are living.
Friendships and homesickness
Missing the people and places left behind, and building new friendships and confidence in a new setting, without losing the old ones.
Growing up between cultures
The bigger questions that come with an international childhood, worked through steadily in one to one sessions that fit your time zone.
Who this is for
- Families at a British or international school abroad wanting UK-qualified specialist support
- Expat families whose child has recently relocated
- Children finding a new school, new country or new friendships hard
- Neurodivergent children without easy access to local specialists
- Families moving back to the UK and wanting to bridge the gap before they arrive
Qualified teacher, psychology graduate, and award-winning specialist educator.
Ruby Cole is a qualified teacher with Qualified Teacher Status and a BSc Psychology (Hons), and winner of the London Teacher of the Year Award 2021. With 10+ years working with children and young people across the UK and internationally, she supports both how a child learns and how a child feels.
Qualified teaching background
Classroom and specialist experience across London schools brings clear knowledge of progression, assessment, school expectations, and age-appropriate teaching.
Psychology and child development
A background in psychology supports careful attention to motivation, confidence, emotional regulation, and how each child feels safest and most ready to learn.
Additional needs and neurodiversity
Sessions are adapted for neurodivergent learners and children with additional needs, without lowering expectations or making a child feel singled out.
How it works
- 1Book a free 15-minute discovery call, at a time that works in your time zone.
- 2Ruby talks through what your child needs, academically and emotionally.
- 3Most families start with coaching, and sessions continue for as long as they are useful.
- 4Sessions are delivered online, scheduled around your family and your child's school.
Questions international families ask
What is the difference between tuition and coaching?
Coaching gives a child tools and support for the social and emotional side of things, like friendships, confidence, feelings and settling. Tuition is more about academic support, like schoolwork and subjects.
Can coaching continue through the teenage years?
Yes. Coaching runs from age 7 to 18, so it continues through secondary school and into the teenage years, which is often when the questions about identity and belonging surface most clearly.
Do you support neurodivergent children abroad?
Yes. Ruby adapts sessions for neurodivergent children and children with additional needs, which can be especially valuable where local specialist support is hard to find.
Which countries and time zones do you cover?
Ruby works with families in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Sessions are online, and Ruby works across time zones, with slots arranged around your child's school day.
How do online sessions work?
Sessions are one to one, over video call, at a regular time agreed around your child's school day and your time zone. Everything Ruby offers in person also runs online.
Online coaching and support by location
Ruby works online with children and teenagers aged 7 to 18 in international and expat families, with sessions arranged around their local school day and time zone. These pages set out what tends to come up in each place, and how coaching can help.
Singapore
For families in a fast-moving international community, where friendship groups change with every school year.
Online coaching for children in SingaporeHong Kong
For children managing a full, fast school week alongside friendship changes.
Online coaching for children in Hong KongMalaysia
For families in Kuala Lumpur and beyond who want experienced UK support that is hard to find locally.
Online coaching for children in MalaysiaThailand
For children in Bangkok and other international communities who have already moved more than once.
Online coaching for children in ThailandDubai and the UAE
For families in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and across the Emirates, including those preparing for a UK school.
Online coaching for children in Dubai and the UAEEurope
For families anywhere in Europe, at international, bilingual, local and British schools.
Online coaching for children in Europe
What this is
Education-led, psychology-informed coaching, delivered by a qualified teacher with a background in child psychology.
What this is not
This is not therapy, counselling, or clinical treatment. If Ruby believes a child would benefit from clinical support, she will always say so.
Wherever you are, let's talk.
A free 15-minute discovery call, arranged around your time zone.