Every Page of This Site Now Reads in Three Languages

I added something to this site that I have wanted for years: a language button that turns every page on najlasallum.com into English, Português or Español with a single tap. No separate versions, no asking anyone for a translation. The page you are on right now can be read in the language you dream in.

I practice in South Florida, so let me tell you what I see in my office. A Brazilian mother brings her son in and quietly translates my intake forms for him in the waiting room. A father from Venezuela reads an asylum letter three times because the English keeps sliding off. A grandmother from Cuba nods along politely and then asks her granddaughter, in Spanish, what I actually said. These are smart people. The language is the wall, not the mind.

Mental health vocabulary is hard enough in your first language. Words like hypervigilance, adjustment disorder, or extreme hardship do not translate themselves in your head while you are anxious, grieving, or scared about a case. When the subject is your own nervous system or your family's future in this country, you should not have to work that hard just to read.

My sessions have always run in whichever language the client thinks in. I grew up between languages myself, and I have spent fourteen years doing therapy and immigration evaluations in English, Português and Español. The website was the last part of my practice that only spoke English. That gap is now closed.

Using it is simple. There is a small globe near the top of every page. Tap it, pick your language, and the whole site follows: the therapy pages, the immigration evaluation pages, this blog, the contact form. It uses Google's translation engine, so it covers every page I publish from now on without me doing anything.

Is machine translation perfect? No. Names, my phone number, and clinical terms of art stay as they are, and once in a while a sentence will come out stiff. If something reads wrong to you in Portuguese or Spanish, tell me. I read every message that comes through my contact form, and I will fix the wording that matters.

If someone you love has been squinting at English-only mental health websites, send them a page from this site in their language. It is a small gesture that says: you get to understand this too. Bem-vindo. Bienvenido. Welcome.