About me
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I offer sessions to Individuals, Couples & Families. Online session are via Video Zoom and I meet clients face to face in New Milton and London Mayfair.
I have worked as a Couple & Family Psychotherapist for 15 years, across different areas of London in children NHS services and in Hampshire in adult NHS services, supporting the recovery of individuals and families affected by severe mental health difficulties and collaborating with schools, local authorities and health care agencies in delivering mental health training to colleagues and teachers.
Through my online practice, I enjoy the opportunity to meet with clients from different parts of the world, allowing clients to find a space for therapeutic sessions amongst busy work schedules and wider context pressures, bridging the barrier of spatial distance, childcare needs and time limits.
In my online sessions , I encourage the parallel practice of engaging with the evidence based strategies of mindfulness activities, to promote a level of change that is internalised in both our mind and conscious awareness and our nervous system and emotional responses within our body.
In our sessions we explore and identify unhelpful patterns of relating and coping and together find the resources within you to achieve satisfying and fulfilling ways of being and relating.
Life events such as family conflict and high expression of emotions, betrayals and infidelity, moving home/country, a new job, a birth, a loss, a break-up, difficulties in communication, sensitivities in relationships, are amongst some of the common themes and events for which individuals, couples and families seek clarity and support. These difficulties can result in individuals distancing, triggering past attachment injuries and lead to isolation and feeling stuck in unhelpful dynamics. They can result in mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety to the point of affecting daily functioning.
By exploring and gaining awareness of beliefs and narratives you hold about past and current difficult events, of yourself and others, of your family of origin, we identify core internal processes that influence your emotions, behaviours, needs and preferred outcomes. We identify your current emotional regulation and thoughts patterns, your relational dynamics that are unhelpful, that cause distress and need understanding, re-adjusting and repairing, and identify healthy strategies for self and co- regulation.
You will regain a secure and confident sense of agency in how to live your life with authenticity; find the right fit in your expression and commitment to your needs and of those around you; how you remain present in your intimate and wider relationships for more connecting and satisfying encounters, feeling grateful and grounded.
The way you will start to experience positive change and the course of the therapy process will vary depending on what you have experienced in your life.
A significant element for therapy to be successful is building a comfortable and trusting therapeutic relationship. Each person I meet in my work continuously enriches me in my therapeutic stance.
I provide a safe and warm space for people to feel held, make sense of their experiences and grow in understanding, acceptance and love, for themselves and life, offering tools to reach preferred outcomes. Clients tell me they feel held in their struggles and supported with clarity in building inner resilience and lasting strategies to continue to navigate independently the journey of life.
I specialise in working with couples and families and I offer therapy both in English and Italian.
I provide support to clients affected by:
- Relationship & couple difficulties
- Adult child and parents difficulties
- Family difficulties
- Parenting difficulties with young children
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Low self-esteem
- Stress and worry
For more information on my work, please visit my website and do get in touch for a free brief call to see if this feels like the right space for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc Systemic Family & Couples Psychotherapy- King’s College London & Institute of Psychiatry
- PG Dip CYP IAPT, Children and Young People, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: PG Dip Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression- King’s College London, University College London & Anna Freud Centre
- BSc Psychology- Universita’ degli Studi di Padova
- Cert Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)- King’s College London, University College London & Anna Freud Centre
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Accreditation (DBT)- The Association for Psychological Therapies
- Family- Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (FB-IPT)- Anna Freud Centre
- AMBIT Lead: Team Leader for Adolescent Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment- Anna Freud Centre
- Professional Membership with UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Member organisations
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UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Parenting difficulties
Therapies offered
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Clients’ feedback:
“Sara has helped me find my authentic self. She guided me session by session with clear goals about what I wanted to get out of our meetings. She is very warm and made me feel comfortable when talking about difficult stuff. I now feel more confident and see life from a happier place.” EM
“After our sessions I thought everyone should have family therapy! Our son started to have behavioural difficulties at school. We couldn’t see a way out. She helped us see the problem from a wider perspective and not make him the problem. We can now all see what we do to contribute to that. We found better ways of communicating our emotions and be there for one another. Sara also helped us set up meetings with the school to make sure we are all on the same page in supporting him.” AW
“My wife and I were struggling in our marriage for a long time. The sessions with Sara helped us finding solutions to our issues. We now feel equipped to talk to each other and enjoy our marriage again. I was initially reluctant. Her transparency and patience helped me see the benefits of therapy.” DM
