Life can throw up a great deal of difficulties and emotional struggles, and it can be beneficial to take the time to make sense of these in a safe and supportive space. The therapeutic relationship is a space in which to better understand your suffering, to understand its origins and what keeps it going, whilst bolstering your resilience and personal strengths. I believe that the key to successful therapy is a collaborative and trusting relationship, where you feel understood and are given the space to work towards your personal solutions. Time will be spent reviewing what is working well and what is getting in the way of us making progress.

The therapeutic process encourages us to see ourselves as an active participate in our lives and empower you to learn new skills and ways of coping, harnessing your potential to create change. We will work together to establish your goals and values, with the aim of using them to make committed actions to moving towards a more fulfilling life.

I completed a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Canterbury Christchurch in 2017, having studied psychology since 2007. I have worked within the NHS since 2012 in various settings, including community mental health teams, inpatient services, and forensic secure services.

I am committed to supporting individuals to foster a more positive and compassionate narrative about their experiences and struggles and to strive for a healthy meaningful life.

I work with clients offering both brief and longer term therapy in a warm and supportive space in which to explore recent or more long-standing emotional suffering.

I do believe that through the establishment of a therapeutic relationship based on trust and genuineness we can work collaboratively focusing on the difficulties with which you are struggling at this specific moment and the changes you wish to make.

By assuming an attitude of curiosity, we will not only look at how your difficulties developed, but mainly at what maintains them, exploring and creating more helpful strategies and ways of living more meaningfully.

My choice to become a psychologist was influenced by a passion for the helping professions and an attitude of enquiring, which helped me to develop a critical way of thinking and questioning throughout my career.

After obtaining the Chartered Status as a Psychologist in Italy in 2004 I had the opportunity to work in different mental health services.

I also attended numerous courses to enhance my psychological knowledge and expertise, including a 3-year PGdiploma in group psychotherapy at the Middlesex University in London, 2-year PGdiploma in systemic thinking and practice accredited by AFT (Association of Family Therapy) and numerous cognitive behavioural therapy courses for specific disorders.

I put my patients and their carers first in my day to day and I have always been driven by making the difference to patients’ care and lives. I am passionate about it and I excel in achieving this goal.

I work towards creating a strong relationship and alliance with my patients and their families. I enable them to make informed choices, including discussing treatment options available, mechanisms of action of medications and side effects.

My vast knowledge and experience in psychopharmacology and my biological approach has allowed me to get excellent results. To ensure a holistic approach is explored and maximised, I encourage liaison with other practitioners, such as Psychologists, Occupational and Vocational Therapists and GPs.

I qualified in Italy as a medical doctor achieving the highest grade, 110 summa cum laude, in 2007. In 2012, I completed my training in Psychiatry in Italy, again gaining the highest grade of 50 summa cum laude.

During my training, I also worked as a locum General Practitioner and I did shifts at local Accident & Emergency Services all around the island of Sardinia. This allowed me to develop myself as a doctor and get clinical experience in treating medical emergencies as well as common physical health conditions. In November 2011, while still in training, I started practising Psychiatry privately. I continued my private practice in Italy until October 2017, after three years of living in the UK.

After completing my training, I worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Italy for about two years, which allowed me to get considerable experience in the community, hospital and forensic settings, including maximum secure prisons. During those years, I also worked as an expert witness for the Court as well as for private clients. The mixture of private work and public sector offered me the opportunity of coming across different clinical presentations and find ways to engage with patients, carers and stakeholders at various levels.

In 2014 driven by the challenge of getting out of my comfort zone and acquaint myself with different cultural/professional dimensions, I made plans to move to abroad. I chose the United Kingdom as I felt it was a country with a thriving, inclusive and diverse society.

I worked as a psychiatrist in a forensic low secure unit in Cambridge and in a Community Mental Health Team in Saffron Walden for two years and three months.

I took on my first Consultant role in the NHS in January 2017, when I started working with Cameo North, the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, and in an Acute Assessment Unit, a 72 hours acute assessment ward, both based in Peterborough.

I currently work as a Lead Consultant Psychiatrist in COAST, the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service based in Croydon, with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. I am the local Medical Advisory Committee chair and the Early Intervention forum chair for the Trust.