Alice Fiorica - Psychologist & CBT, ACT- Couples & Bipolar- English & Italian
Hi, I am Alice, I am the founder and clinical director of Crossroads Psychology.
I am a HCPC registered Psychologist, CBT therapist, ACT Therapist and a Mindfulness Teacher.
I have over 20 years experience in working in public health services, charities, councils and in private practice both in the UK and in Italy.
I work primarily with adults 18+ and couples. I specialise in the treatment of Stress and Anxiety Disorders (such as GAD, OCD, PTSD, Panic, Perfectionism, Social Anxiety and Impostor Syndrome); Depression and Bipolar Disorder; Trauma and relationship problems.
I also help clients to achieve the life they want to live through self development and working on living their values.
The aim is to move forward in life by identifying unhelpful behavioural and cognitive patterns and changing what is stopping you from living a full and meaningful life. Being that self critical thoughts, difficult emotions, traumas or childhood issues.
Therapy as well as life is for me a journey of self discovery and self improvement. I greatly value the opportunity to be a companion and a support on your journey.
Together we will identify where you want to go in life and what you want to achieve with therapy. We will also identify what has got in your way up to now or is still affecting you in living the life you want to live.
I’ll be on your side to help you understand the unique message each emotion brings and to help you in developing behaviours that acknowledge the difficulty, whist still moving forward in your chosen direction.
We will use a combination of CBT, Mindfulness, ACT and Coaching to identify your values and the life you want to live, creating a Mindful awareness and a different relation with your thought and feeling, while changing unhelpful behaviours into values driven effective action that will help you achieve your goals in life.
We will address any issue in an open and supportive way.
I graduated in Clinical and Social Psychology from the University of Padua, Italy in 2002 and I was a registered psychologist in Italy between 2003 and 2008. Since moving to the UK I trained in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) at Royal Holloway University, London, in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), in Mindfulness and in Coaching for Success.
You can expect a therapy that is both practical and reflective, delivered with empathy, collaboration and compassion in a non judgmental, safe space that you can own.
I firmly believe in the power of a good therapeutic relationship to maximise the benefits of specific psychological techniques.