BSC in Psychology, University of Bologna
Specialized in Brief Strategic Therapy, Strategic Therapy Center in Arezzo, Italy, directed by Professor Giorgio Nardone.
Trained in therapeutic meditation techniques and Mindfulness, Institute of Applied Psychology,
Turin, Italy.
Currently training at the European Institute of Positive Psychology, Genoa, Italy.
Active in collaborations with social services in primary, junior and high schools, as well as foster care homes, to help kids, adolescents and adults with mental and physical disabilities via projects that promote their development and rehabilitation.
Active in collaborations with sports institutions that teach karate and personal defense, in projects that monitor group dynamics, athlete motivation and performance anxiety.
Intervention areas – Mindfulness (therapeutic meditation)
- Stress reduction
- Elimination of intrusive thoughts
- Management of emotions
Intervention areas – Mindful eating (mindfulness applied to eating)
- Overweight (in collaboration with a nutritionist or dietitian)
- Binge eating
- Bulimia with elimination behavior (self-induced vomiting, excessive physical exercise)
Intervention areas – Brief Strategic Therapy
Anxiety disorders
- Panic attacks
- Generalized anxiety
- Post-traumatic stress disorders
- Performance anxiety
Phobias
- Specific fears (cars, planes, animals, closed or open spaces, objects, situations, contacts, dirt)
Disorders related to the body and somatizations
- Hypochondria (fear of disease)
- Dysmorphophobia (fixations related to physical appearance or to a part of the body)
- Pain and sudden somatic and symptomatic manifestations
Fixations and obsessions (obsessive compulsive disorder).
- Repetitive thoughts or actions with or without ritualized behaviors (i.e. repeatedly washing hands, checking an action or thought several times, cleaning and disinfecting continuously)
Eating disorders
- Anorexia
- Bulimia (binge eating with or without vomiting)
- Obesity
- Alternation between abstinence from food and binge eating
- Food fixations
Mood disorders
- Depression
- Apathy
- Reactions to bereavement, loss and abandonment
Sexual disorders
- Impotence
- Anorgasmia
- Sexual fixations
- Vaginismus
- Difficulty with erection
- Premature ejaculation
- Disorders of desire
Relational problems in different areas
- Couple and family (conflicts, separations, problems in raising children)
- Work (conflicts, changes, burnout, mobbing, work-related stress risk, achievement of objectives)
Problems of childhood and adolescence
- Inattention
- Hyperactivity
- Provocative oppositional behavior
- Avoidance disorder
- Performance anxiety
- School phobia
- Specific fears (animals, situations, objects)
Disorders related to internet abuse
- Compulsive online shopping
- Pathological gambling
- Chat addiction
- Cybersex addiction
- Compulsive search for information
Disorders related to alcohol and tobacco abuse.