Clinical Psychologist- Complex Trauma Therapist
Every human being is unique in their story, strengths, struggles and life trajectory.
I use an integrated approach that use different tools and theories with the aim to offer a session where your needs and your peculiarities are welcomed and accommodated, to give you an experience that is unique to you, without following rigid protocols or timing. I believe, in accordance to recent studies, that the therapeutic relationship is the essential promoter of change in therapy, and I am committed to do my best to ensure you feel seen, heard and cared for.
I am always looking to expand my clinical knowledge and I am currently attending a 4 years training in systemic and transcultural psychotherapy.
In my practice, I integrate:
Systemic Theories
These approaches to therapy see the person as part of various contexts (individual, family, work, society, culture, religion) and aim to read the person's symptoms, and make sense of them, while considering the function that these symptoms have in the person relational contexts.
Systemic approaches look at reducing the power imbalance between therapist and client, using appropriate self-disclosure while empowering collaboration. The therapist is seen as part of the system they are observing, and reflect on their impact on client presentation.
Pg Certificate in Systemic Practice,
Institute of Family Therapy London (2021)
Psychodynamic Theories including Mentalized Based Therapy
This approach tends to focus on early experiences and attachment styles as lenses to look at current difficulties, both within the individual and in interpersonal relationships, including the therapeutic relationship.
Psychodynamic approaches are curious about discovering the internal dynamics that influence our being in the world, analysing thinking processes, emotions, defences and paying attention to the relationship between therapist and client as an example of the client relational patterns.
Internal Family System
This approach derives from systemic approaches and tends to look at the psyche as composed of parts that evolve with the person. This parts are composing our internal family, that often reflect the family we hold outside our inner world. In times of struggle, a part might become fixated on extreme roles, trying to protect or to manage a difficult reality, creating unwanted consequences. This approach aims to restore balance in the internal world acknowledging the role that each part plays.
Trauma informed perspective
This perspective aims to consider the impact that potentially traumatic events have on the individual and sees symptoms as learned coping mechanisms.
Every person has some level of resilience to adverse life events, and when this ability gets overwhelmed, the person might experience symptoms like anxiety, depression, OCD and needs for control, self-harming of different sorts, flashbacks, dissociation, depersonalisation or derealisation.
The goal is to collaboratively help the person find the inner and external resources to cope with the consequences of their experiences and create an alternative empowering narrative.
Trauma Master, Beck's Institute Rome, 2023
Sensorimotor
This approach integrates talking therapy with body-oriented approaches, aiming to elicit the healing power of the body, and restore safety and trust in self, and connection with others.
CBT
This approach looks at the interconnection between thoughts, feelings and behaviour in the individual, and aims to help in developing alternative thinking patterns to deal with current struggles.
