About Me

I am Erica Ceciliani, psychologist and transcultural psychotherapist. As a therapist, partner and mother, I personally experience the need to structure my professional work across different places, offering psychological journeys tailored to those who cannot attend in-person sessions.

I am Erica Ceciliani, psychologist and transcultural psychotherapist. As a therapist, partner and mother, I personally experience the need to structure my professional work across different places, offering psychological journeys tailored to those who cannot attend in-person sessions.

I graduated with honors in Clinical, Developmental and Neuropsychology at the University of Milano Bicocca in 2012, and later specialized in Transcultural Psychotherapy in 2019. My therapeutic approach takes into account how each person's stories, cultures, values and life contexts shape the way we exist in the world.

Over the years I have worked extensively with schools, cooperatives and family support services, meeting many parents and children, accompanying families through moments of change, confusion or difficulty, and developing specific expertise in parenting and support for minors in vulnerable situations.

Change is not something that happens to us, but something we can build

Therapy, for me, means deeply believing that the possibility of change exists, while recognizing that change is not something that happens to us, but something we can build. Therapy means dedicating time to making this transformation possible, within a protected and dedicated space, giving room to one's inner voice and putting it in dialogue with the voice of the other — the therapist.

Therapy means giving voice to one's own story, not so that the story itself can be changed, but so that what can change — even radically — is the meaning we give it, and its impact on who we are now.

There exists a personal micro-culture made of everything that has shaped our story up to this point.

For each of us, culture is the filter through which events pass and are then interpreted as meaningful. According to my approach, culture is not only the macro-culture imposed at birth by coming into the world in a specific land, civilization or historical era. Culture is also that far more personal micro-culture that makes each person unique — within which we can seek the elements underlying personal suffering, but also the resources for growth and healing. Therapist and patient then build a dialogue, in which the patient's voice, values and uniqueness always remain at the centre.