Approach
"The patient is my teacher."
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What this means
This sentences is the foundation of how I work. I do not come into a session with a ready-made answer. I come with curiosity, training, and experience. But you come with something I will never have: the knowledge of your own story and the environments that shaped you.
That is why we build the path together. Not because it sounds nice, but because it is the only way therapy can truly take into account the worlds people live in.
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What culture really means
In a transcultural perspective, culture is not simply about being from one country or another. It's something broader and more personal. The family you grew up in, the values you absorbed, the social context around you, the experiences that shaped you. Culture varies greatly from person to person, even within the same country. It's not a fixed label. It's the environment, visible and invisible, that influences how you understand yourself and your suffering.
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Why transcultural matters
Most psychological approaches are rooted in Western frameworks. Developed by Western researchers, tested on Western populations, built on Western assumptions about what a healthy mind looks like. That doesn't make them wrong. But it makes them incomplete. Transcultural psychotherapy starts from this awareness. It doesn't assume. It asks. It takes the environments that shape your life as seriously as your symptoms.
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What this looks like in our work
Your culture is never a side note. It's part of every conversation. The environments you grew up in, the values you carry, the experiences that shaped you. All of it matters in how we understand what you're going through. I won't pathologize something your culture considers normal. I ask before I assume. The direction of our work is shaped by what matters to you, not by what a textbook says should matter.
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Where this comes from
I completed a four-year specialization in transcultural psychotherapy at Fondazione Cecchini Pace in Milan, integrating psychodynamic theory with transcultural perspectives. I am also trained in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), an evidence-based intervention developed for people who have experienced multiple traumatic events.