Candice A. Hughes, PhD

Founder & President of Bridging Cultures

Dr. Hughes, a graduate of the Urban School Psychology program at Fordham University in New York City, is an experienced teacher and school psychologist who has worked in public schools in the United States and in international schools in Germany and Switzerland. She lived abroad for fourteen years as a member of an expatriate family. Her personal and professional international experiences led Dr. Hughes to serve as one of four partners in the establishment of the company, Bridging Cultures GmbH, in Zurich, Switzerland in 1996. Its focus was to help internationally mobile people with their cross-cultural transition challenges as well as opportunities for personal growth.

Following her family’s repatriation to the United States in 1999, Dr. Hughes established Bridging Cultures Inc. to help individuals, families, and organizations in cultural transition. She holds school psychology certification and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois. She has created a Cultural Transition Resiliency Model which she uses in her private practice with individuals and families and in her consulting and training work with multicultural school and organizational communities. Dr. Hughes also conducts training workshops and provides coaching services on topics related to Living, Learning, & Working Multiculturally. She is a board member of the national organization SIETAR-USA, the Society for Intercultural Training, Education, and Research.

Dr. Hughes has focused her personal and volunteer efforts to topics related to special education, parenting and family development, adoption, and mental illness. She currently serves as either a committee member and/or in a leadership capacity in several organizations devoted to these topics.

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