Hi, I'm Susan Saxtorph.

A Danish special educator with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and an expat parent living in Bangkok, Thailand.

My family's international journey began in Málaga, Spain, where we moved for my husband's work. Those first years abroad were harder than I expected. Language barriers, cultural differences, and the quiet feeling of not quite belonging made me realise how much expat families, and especially children are left to navigate on their own.

When we moved on to Bangkok, things felt easier. But the questions stayed with me.

Professionally, I have spent years working with children who needed extra support, through early identification of children requiring additional resources, residential care for unaccompanied refugee children, and closed institutions for young people in crisis. I have seen, up close, how deeply instability, loss, and disrupted safety can affect a child. Often in ways that are invisible from the outside.

What I noticed was a gap. There is very little professional, research-informed material that truly addresses the emotional experience of expat children and Third Culture Kids. That is why I created Little Humans Abroad.

My hope is simple: to help expat parents better understand their child's emotional journey, and to give families practical tools for a better quality of life abroad.

Because children don't need perfect transitions. They need to feel understood.

— Susan, Little Humans Abroad