Helping You Find Harmony and Grounded Life Direction
Work with Dr Rita
Dr Rita is a highly qualified, passionate, and sympathetically listening professional, who provides an empathic, non-judgmental presence, and a confidential space, giving her clients the privilege to express who they truly are.
She’s been working for 25 years to help adults to cope more effectively with life and relationship issues, and mental health problems, at every age and stage of life.
Practising in the centre of Coventry, Leamington Spa and Stratford upon Avon, she offers Professional Counselling, short and long-term Integrative Psychotherapy focused on Transactional Analysis, and Life-Coaching.
Dr Rita also offers Counselling and Psychotherapy services to Italian speaking Expats
in Birmingham, Coventry, and surrounding areas.
Welcome!
About me:
I am a highly trained, qualified and licensed Counsellor, Clinical Psychologist-Psychotherapist and Coach. I have gained 25 years’ experience in the field of Psychology and Clinical Neuroscience, helping adults at every age and stage of life with a variety of life’s challenges, including personality and brain disorders.
The Focus of my Private Practice
After many years of working in hospitals and clinics overseas, I have chosen to focus on my private practice in the Midlands, giving my patients all the attention and personalised care they deserve. I warmly offer them Professional Counselling, short and long-term Integrative Psychotherapy, focused on Transactional Analysis, Body-oriented therapeutic treatments, and Private Coaching.
Empathic and Creative Alternative Treatment
As a former dancer, I also joined my studies and passion for dance with the psychotherapeutic use of body movements as an implicit and expressive instrument of communication and expression of Self. Thus the relational process in which my patients and I are engaged is very empathic and creative, offering an alternative treatment for anxiety symptoms, low mood and depression, anger and stress-related disorders, body image issues, and other concerns.
Culturally Open and Sensitive
Thanks to my cross-cultural experiences, and speaking three languages, I am culturally open and sensitive and I do like to work with diverse and multi-ethnic individuals. I am also interested in Cross-Cultural Psychology which is the study of similarities and differences in behaviour among individuals from a different cultural background.
What Can I Do For You?
Firstly, I am passionate about supporting my patients through the Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) approach focused on Transactional Analysis. I do see how they are engaged and fulfilled with the therapeutic sessions they have. IBP is a unique, non-invasive body-mind approach that treats the whole person in a creative way, integrating many validated tools used in psychotherapy today. This approach enables me to do deeper and more meaningful work in less time with more lasting results.
Secondly, I clarify the personality for my clients from the neuroscience perspective.
Due to my studies, work, and interest in neuroscience, I refer to personality neuroscience which integrates techniques from personality psychology and neuroscience to explain the neural basis of individual differences in cognition, emotion, motivation, and behaviour. This endeavour is pertinent not only to our understanding of healthy personality variation, but also to the aberrant trait manifestations present in personality disorders. I must admit I am astonished in seeing the great eagerness to know showed by my clients about this area.
Whatever The Problem, Be a Part of the Solution
Dr Rita will carefully accompany you, step by step, to your personal process of understanding, growth and transformation, identifying what is preventing you from getting what you really want and need.
CONTACT DR RITA TO LEARN HOW TO
FINALLY FIND YOUR OWN BALANCE
AND HARMONY IN LIFE.
Main Certifications and Studies
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) and Integrative Psychotherapy
(Scuola Superiore di Specializzazione in Psicologia Clinica e Psicoterapia – SSPC-IFREP – Salesian Pontifical University, Rome, 2004-2008);
Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA),
European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA), International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA), Rome, 2004-2008;
Master’s Degree in Professional Counselling and Educational Psychology
(Scuola Superiore di Specializzazione in Psicologia Clinica, Mestre-Venice, 2004-2007);
Clinical Neuropsychology
and Psychophysiology MSc
(Università degli Studi di Padova, 2000-2001);
Post-graduate Training Course in: “Autogenic Training of J.H. Schultz”, and “Autogenic Training in Obstetric Psychoprophylaxis”, C.I.S.S.P.A.T. – Italian Centre Development Studio Short Term Psychotherapy,
Padua, Italy, 1996-1997;
Certification Dance Movement Therapy
(Art Therapy Italiana-Goldsmiths’ College
London, 1995-1996);
Psychology BSc, I/O Psychology MSc
University of Padua, Italy (1988-1993)
Years of Clinical Practice
25 years of work in Clinical Psychology
in public services and in private practice,
of which 12 years of clinical work in Neuropsychology
Member Organizations
BNA – British Neuroscience Association;
EATA (European Association for Transactional Analysis);
Albo e Ordine degli Psicologi (Veneto, Italy) – section A (licensed Psychotherapist);
IRPIR – Research Institute of Intrapsychic and Relational Processes;
Founder member of Salus Euganea Association,
an Italian nonprofit organization for Health promotion and healthy lifestyle for neurological disorders and mental diseases.
Ethical Standards
I am a qualified member of the above professional body and organizations. I abide by and work within their boundaries of the Ethical Principles and Codes of Professional Conduct.
National Board Registration since 21/09/1995 as licensed Psychologist
and then Psychotherapist (license n. 2397)
https://www.ordinepsicologiveneto.it
National Examination to practice as Psychologist, June 1995;