About me

I took my degree in Clinical Psychology at Sapienza in 2017 and did my placement in a mental health service of ASL Roma 2, in a clinic that mostly saw young adults. That is where I learned two things that have stayed with me: that almost nobody arrives able to say what is wrong, and that how someone is received in the first half hour decides whether they come back.

I have been registered with the Psychologists' Board of the Lazio Region since 2019. Since 2021 I have been in specialist training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy: the clinical work I do is supervised, as that training requires.

How I work

I do not give advice and I do not set exercises. I ask questions, and what interests me most is what repeats: the same scenes, the same sentences, the same points at which a story gets stuck. The work consists of making that pattern visible while it is happening, because as long as it stays invisible it keeps deciding on our behalf.

It is a slow way of working. It does not promise results in a set number of sessions and it will never tell you what to do with your life. For some people that is exactly right; for others it is not, and in that case I prefer to say so at the first meeting and point them elsewhere.

Supervision and continuing training

I take part in a monthly supervision group and in clinical seminars through the academic year. In supervision, cases are discussed without any element that would allow a person to be identified: that is a rule, not a courtesy.