Marco Pilia


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About me
I offer adult face to face online individual psychotherapy and counselling.
As BACP qualified integrative psychotherapist, I work across a wide range of areas and interests: lifestyle and relationship issues, “existential emptiness”, loss of meaning and motivation, bereavement and loss, trauma, mood disorders (anxiety and depression), past abuse, intimacy and substance abuse problems, ageing and later life concerns.
As Advanced Accredited Sexual Diversity Therapist I work with identity and sexuality, gender-fluidity and diversity issues, internalised phobias, anger and lighter forms of verbal aggression, aiming to explore their way and HIV+, HAART, HRT, chemsex support and relationship concerns.
Theoretical Approach: Integrative Psychotherapy ( influences: Psychoanalysis, Existential, Humanistic), ACT Group Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, DBT
As an integrative psychotherapist I work across a wide range of areas and interests, lifestyle and relationship issues, anxiety, existential emptiness, loss of meaning, bereavement and loss, trauma ,cry spells, people pleasing and mood disorders (anxiety and depression), past abuse (addiction and prevention of relapses), ageing and later life concerns. As an accredited sexual diversity therapist I work with identity and sexuality, gender-fluidity and diversity issues, internalised phobias and anger.
Sessions can be conducted in English, Italian and German.
I offer both short-term (usually 12 sessions) and open ended work.
Training, qualifications & experience
My trainings are strictly related to my personal experiences. Two decades of experience in assisting and management within both the military and civil aviation provided the platform which set off my interest in inner healing.
My attention to language and the extensive cross cultural knowledge added to humanistic studies set off my journey within the talking therapies . I offer support for a range of difficulties, discomforts and disturbances from simple anxiety management to existential episodes and recurring events that need processing in a safe, confidential and not judgemental space.
I graduated in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology at Regent's University London. Additionally I fulfilled the requirements for and was awarded with "Alternative Sexualities Certificate" issued by Pink Therapy and "Train the Trainers- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" - Group Protocol for Improving Employee Well Being and Performance issued by University of London and City and Hackney Mind.
Moreover I facilitate DBT (Dialectic Behavioural Therapy) to individuals and groups and graduated as a 7-PATH Self Hypnosis Teacher (Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnotherapy) in California and currently am practising in London, Rome, the UK and Internationally.
As Pink Therapy's Clinical Associate I offer my services to organisations, schools and universities organising and facilitating Workshops of GSRD, ACT, DBT, Hypnosis to communities across the UK and Italy.
Member organisations

BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership

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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer sessions in English, Italian and German. These can be short term (usually 12 sessions) and long term.
As each individual is immersed in a different context, I'd like to discuss the fee, structure and length of sessions with each client and tailor them to their current needs.
Initial consultation fee is fixed at £60. Sessions are usually one hour a week. Evening and weekend appointments are available as well as early morning appointments.
I welcome anybody, make allowances for students and trainee therapists and counsellors. I mainly provide Online Video Counselling services and have opportunities for face to face sessions as well.
When I work
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Morning 07,30 am till 10,30 am;
Afternoon from '1,00 pm till 03,00 pm;
Evening from 05,30 pm till 09,30 pm;
Nights are offered internationally for clients outside GMT zone 22:00/ 00:00;
Further information
I worked for various charitable organisations both LGBT and non such as London Friend and Mind. Finally, I am a visiting lecturer and Director of International Relations for CIPA Counselling School at Tor Vergata University in Rome.
Lastly, I am the author of counselling-related articles for a peer-reviewed online magazine (www.cipacounselling.eu/cipazine/sessualita) and translated from English into Italian "Healing Conversations, What to Say When You Don't Know What to Say" (Guilmartin, N - 2002 - CA: Jossey Bass ED).