Dr Sonia Gallucci PhD Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Focusing Oriented Therapist

I have long term experience in providing pastoral care and therapeutic support to individuals coming from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds. I have gained most of this experience in the U.K. where I lived for nearly two decades and worked in various Education and Mental Health Institutions. In 2019, I moved back to Italy, and since then I have been working in private practice internationally as a Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Focusing-Oriented Therapist both online and in person. I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) and of the Italian Association for Counselling (AssoCounseling). I am also certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist with The International Focusing Institute (TIFI) and the British Focusing Association (BFA).
My therapeutic approach is existential and interpersonal, with elements of person-centred and focusing-oriented psychotherapy. In accordance with the codes of ethics and practice of my professional associations, my modality of practice is based on the values and principles of the humanistic-existential approach: develop the inherent tendency towards autonomy, empowerment, freedom, meaning, personal growth and responsibility, while focusing on client’s subjective experience. It is a modality that aims at raising awareness on the relations we have with others and with ourselves, including the relation between emotions, mind and body. I offer face-to-face as well as telephone and online counselling to adults in Italian and/or in English.