Third Culture Therapy is a podcast that explores the unique ways social identity and cultural heritage impact mental and emotional well-being.
Produced and hosted by Layla Maghribi, the series explores how multiple – sometimes conflicting – identities affect how we feel about ourselves and the world around us.
During in-depth interviews with people from diverse backgrounds, Layla delves into the vastly different journeys taken in the pursuit of inner wellness and explores what aspects of their culture have had a positive, and negative, impact on their mental health.
Listen to audio recordings of all episodes below, or visit the podcast channel directly on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

A podcast exploring how social identity and cultural heritage impact mental and emotional health. Through conversations with people from different backgrounds and professions, Third Culture Therapy’s host Layla Maghribi delves into the layers of social, cultural, religious and political factors that add complexity to caring for our inner well-being. Listen to interviews with third culture artists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, healers, therapists and more.
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Nisrine Maktabi is a Lebanese Canadian psychotherapist, trauma-informed coach, and founder of Rooted and Resilient, a program supporting multicultural individuals in reclaiming belonging and inner peace.
In this intimate conversation, Nisrine joins Third Culture Therapy podcast to explore the invisible threads of intergenerational trauma, the grief we inherit, and the embodied paths to healing. We speak candidly about tracing ancestry, reclaiming joy through storytelling, and how somatic therapy helps multicultural communities move from survival to connection.
💬 Topics Covered:
✔️Tracing ancestry and grief after loss
✔️How unacknowledged grief shows up in high-functioning adults
✔️The sacredness of ancestral storytelling and cultural grief
✔️What healing looks like in a trauma-informed lens
✔️Somatic tools: breath, movement, self-touch, and sensory grounding
✔️ Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work
✔️From blame to compassion in parent-child dynamics
✔️The power of community healing and group therapy
Learn more about Nisrine here
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