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I'm one of the UK’s most experienced, certified Emotionally Focused psychotherapists and one of a few with triple ICEEFT certification in work with individuals, couples and families. I live in the UK and work with clients worldwide via Zoom.

 

Intimate relationships are where we are most ourselves but also most vulnerable. Over more than eighteen years of clinical practice, that is the insight I keep returning to. The people I work with are often high-functioning in every possible way, but what brings them to therapy is usually a growing sense that their closest connections are missing something and  could hold so much more, coupled with a desire and readiness to find out what that might feel like.

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My own path here was not that linear. I grew up in Italy, came to London on an Erasmus exchange in 1995, loved it and stayed.  After graduating from the University of Bologna in Psychology of the Arts, I spent several years in management roles at J. Walter Thompson and BBC Broadcast, where I learned a great deal about communication, persuasion, and the gap between how people wish to present themselves and what they actually feel inside. It was that gap, more than anything else, that eventually led me towards psychotherapy.

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In 2003 I began postgraduate training, drawn immediately to existential psychotherapy and its unflinching engagement with the questions that matter most: how to live, how to love, how to find meaning. I completed my MA in Existential Psychotherapy at NSPC London, awarded by the University of Sheffield, in 2008, and went on to work across NHS and private settings, including St Thomas’ Hospital, The Awareness Centre, and BUPA Psychological Services. In 2009 I founded TherapyTime Group Practice.

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The turn toward couples work deepened everything. It led me to Emotionally Focused Therapy, and to Dr Sue Johnson’s very first EFT training in London in 2010, which greatly enriched my clinical work with its invaluable focus on attachment theory.  EFT is one of the most rigorously researched approaches in the field, and it works precisely because it takes emotional experience as a meaningful espression of our humanity,  rather than treating it as something to be managed or overcome. In 2017 I became a Certified EFT Couple Therapist. I have since added certification in EFT for Individuals (EFIT) and EFT for Families (EFFT), a combination held by very few practitioners in the UK.

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More recently, my clinical focus has expanded in two directions that feel personally as well as professionally significant. My own later-in-life ADHD diagnosis gave me an understanding of that experience from the inside, and I now bring particular depth to supporting individuals, couples and families navigating ADHD in their relational lives. A sustained clinical interest in narcissistic dynamics in couples led me to engage with the work of a leading expert in the field. Dr Ramani Darvasula, and to qualify as a certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician. This work sits close to my heart; the damage narcissistic abuse leaves behind is often invisible and not well understood by people who are lucky enough to have never experienced it.

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I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a registered Clinical Supervisor, trained at CTSD London. I am currently training with ICEEFT to become a Certified EFT Supervisor. I see clients worldwide via Zoom, and I work from my home on the Kent coast.

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Therapy, at its heart, is about deepening connections within oneself and with others. Research consistently confirms that the connection between therapist and client is the single greatest factor in a successful outcome and I strive to offer all my clients a relationship with me that is of genuine care and dedication to their emotional growth.

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