“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Perhaps you arrived here because something, within you or around you, has become difficult to carry on your own. You may feel confused, tired, stuck or overwhelmed, or simply sense that it is time to listen to yourself more closely.
Therapy is a space where you do not have to face all of this alone.
A place where you can feel listened to, welcomed and supported as you make sense of what you think and feel, at your own pace and without needing to have all the answers already. Because sometimes change does not come only from understanding what is happening to us, but also from being able to move through it with someone who stays, listens and walks alongside us as we build new possibilities.
I am a psychologist and psychotherapist, and I work online with adolescents and adults, offering a safe space to explore and work through emotional, relational, psychological and somatic difficulties together.
I have been living abroad for 9 years, and my training and professional experience have taken place across Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Spain.
Alongside individual psychotherapy, I facilitate online groups focused on parenting support, neurodivergent functioning (ADHD, autism and specific learning difficulties), and relational difficulties.
Alongside my clinical work, I am involved in mental health research. I am currently completing a PhD at King's College London & Queen Mary University of London, focused on the relationship between childhood neurodivergence and the development of psychiatric, medical and functional difficulties across the life course.
Each service is offered in Italian, English and Spanish.
Specialisation in Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy at Instituto Carl Rogers, Barcelona.
Training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma treatment at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Barcelona.
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Psychology at Sigmund Freud University, Milan & Vienna.
Master’s in Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology at King's College London.
Master’s in Forensic and Legal Psychology at Istituto Galton, Milan.
PhD at King’s College London & Queen Mary University of London.
Over the years I have gained experience in a range of professional and international settings, including:
Human beings are deeply complex: we are shaped by the interaction of biology, genetics, temperament, environment, relationships and life history. Each person thinks, feels, experiences and expresses themselves in a unique way. This uniqueness also shapes how we experience psychological and somatic distress. For this reason, I work with an integrative therapeutic approach, able to adapt to each person’s subjectivity and needs.
The therapeutic relationship is at the heart of the process and one of the main drivers of change. I strongly believe that therapy is, first and foremost, a meeting between human beings. For this reason, it is essential to me that therapy is a safe space where each person can feel welcomed in their complexity and subjectivity. My therapeutic values are:
Explicit memory allows us to consciously remember what happened and place it within our life story; implicit memory, on the other hand, can automatically reactivate sensations, emotions, impulses and defensive responses.
Traumatic experiences can also leave traces in implicit memory, automatically reactivating bodily sensations, emotions and defensive responses. For this reason, rationally understanding what happened is not always enough to change what we feel.
Through Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, we work directly with the body and nervous system, gradually integrating the lived experience and creating new experiences of safety and regulation.
We learn how to relate through our relational experiences, which influence how we seek closeness, manage distance, set boundaries, express our needs, or respond to the possibility of rejection and abandonment.
Through attachment theory, Gestalt Psychotherapy and inner child work, we can explore what happens in our relationships in the present while also connecting with needs, emotions and wounds that belong to our history, creating new emotional and relational experiences where they were missing in the past.
Emotions are one of the ways our system informs us about what is happening within and around us. Over the course of our lives, however, we may have learned that some emotions are too intense, dangerous or difficult to express, developing strategies to control, avoid, suppress or disconnect from them.
Through the Hakomi Method, attention is brought to present-moment experience with an attitude of curiosity and non-judgement, observing how emotions, bodily sensations, thoughts and meanings emerge and organise themselves in the here and now.
Therapeutic work is not about eliminating or controlling what we feel, but about learning to recognise, tolerate and move through emotions without being overwhelmed by them, gradually expanding our capacity to stay with what is happening within us.
Different parts of us can hold different needs, fears and desires, sometimes appearing to contradict one another. One part may deeply want a relationship while another fears closeness; one may want to change while another continues to engage in behaviours that seem to hold us back.
Through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, we can understand these parts not as something wrong that needs to be eliminated, but as aspects of ourselves that developed throughout our history, often with a protective function.
In therapy, we learn to approach different parts with curiosity and compassion, understanding what they are trying to protect and what needs they carry, in order to reduce inner conflict and build a more integrated and conscious way of relating to ourselves.
THERE ARE PLACES WITHIN US THAT WE CAN ONLY REACH WHEN WE NO LONGER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THEM ALONE.
If you would like to start psychotherapy or receive more information, you can contact me via: