On this page you find a list of symptoms that brought past clients of mine into therapy  

You may be looking for help to explore and clarify some important aspects of/challenges in your life, or you may want to accelerate your own personal growth and discovery, or you may be looking for a behavioural change, or to work on specific symptoms or issues that affect your quality of life.

Whatever your reason to attend therapy, it can be better done in presence of a trusted other who is not a friend nor a relative, who can listen to you in a non-judgmental way and in confidentiality, who can help you to find out what is right for you to bring a better balance in your life. 

Below is a non-exhaustive list of symptoms/issues/focuses my clients and I worked on over the years:

  • Abuse (physical, sexual, emotional)

  • Addiction(s)

  • ADHD

  • Anger

  • Anxiety

  • Attachment-related issues

  • Bereavement

  • Body dysmorphia

  • Childhood bullying-related mental health issues

  • Compulsions

  • Confidence issues

  • Cultural issues

  • Depression

  • Domestic violence-related mental health issues

  • Dissociation

  • Eating disorders

  • Envy and jelousy

  • Family-related mental health issues

  • Feeling sad

  • Feeling stuck (personal or at work)

  • Gender issues

  • Health-related anxiety

  • Identity problems

  • Impulse disorders (shopping, gaming, gambling)

  • Internet Addictions

  • Intersectionality

  • Loneliness

  • Loss

  • Low self-esteem / self-confidence

  • Marriage/Couple-related issues

  • Menopause-related stress

  • Men’s issues

  • Mental health issues

  • Mood disorder (depression, bipolar affective disorder)

  • Neglect

  • Obsessions

  • Panic attacks

  • Paranoia

  • Perfectionism

  • Personal development

  • Phobias

  • Procrastination

  • Psychosomatic disorders

  • Redundancy-related emotional issues

  • Relationships issues

  • Relationship Problems

  • Self-harm

  • Separation and divoce-related mental health issues

  • Separation anxiety

  • Sexual abuse

  • Sexuality-related issues

  • Social Anxiety

  • Somatic illness

  • Stress

  • Trauma (one-off events, developmental, relational, intergenerational)

  • Women’s issues

  • Work related issues / Career change

  • Unexplained medical symptoms

Or you may be looking for specialised professional help with:

  • Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

  • PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder)

  • Complex PTSD

  • Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME / Fibromyalgia

  • Personality disorders (any PD)

  • Suicidal thoughts. 

Feel free to contact me to explore how I can help, even if your symptom/diagnosis is not mentioned on this page. 


“Like a filing cabinet, the past is a resource of information for learning, but it is not a place to live.“ - Anonymous

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” - D.W. Winnicott

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen

“Your trauma might or might not have started with you, but it could end with you” - unknown

“I am not defined by my scars, but by the incredible ability to heal.” - Lemn Sissay

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” - Rumi

“And suddenly you realize that silence Has the face of the things you've lost” - translation from “La voce del Silenzio”, Paolo Limiti and Mogol

“I go out looking for You and find You coming towards me.” - Yehudah Halevi

“It was a while before we came to realize that our place was the very house of difference rather the security of any one particular difference.” - Audre Lorde

          Only for clients who contact me via this website, I offer an initial complimentary 20 minute consultation.

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