Federica Gianotti

Psychologist, psychotherapist, group analyst, Advanced trainer Dynamic Neurofeedback Nonlinear Neuroptimal.

 

I was born in Turin, Italy, where I graduated in Clinical and Community Psychology, during my training I obtained a second level Postgraduate Master in Emergency Psychology, psychological management of stressful and catastrophic events at the University of Padua. I subsequently specialized in psychotherapy with individual and group psychoanalytic orientation, from this approach follows a reading of the psychic suffering also in multi-term not reducible to the structures and/or functioning of the internal world of the individual.

 

In over twenty years of experience I worked in different fields, I started in the field of adolescence, I then worked in the context of dual diagnosis and comorbidity, treatment of addictions related to personality disorders. In 2011 I started working as a psychologist abroad, first as a humanitarian worker of Doctors Without Borders (an organization with which I continue to work) in difficult contexts such as the Middle East and Africa.

I have also worked in the field of disability in projects to support autonomy.

 

From 2015 to 2021 I lived in Barcelona where I continued and consolidated my activity as a freelancer working in presence and online. In 2021 I moved to Prague where I reside and practice as a psychotherapist.

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I deal with every group of users and psychological discomfort, the therapist approach is integrated psychodynamic, which is based on the co- construction of the therapeutic relationship with the patient who is active and participating subject, co-therapist of the process that is directed to the recognition, the acquisition of awareness of their dysfunctional and contradictory mechanisms, active in the relationship with themselves and with others, looking in past experiences and traumas the possible sources of learning of such patterns in order to be able to change them, abandon them. The process is based on supporting the patient’s ability to think in a different way and to break out of an outdated dysfunctional patterns, and finally also to foster awareness that the past is past and the present needs new skills and proper use of existing capacities.

We search in the past the origin of the learning of those patterns of behaviour and thought that cause malaise and complicate social relations with the aim of freeing the present from the past and from those mechanisms no longer useful and necessary but so hard to leave go,

In recent years I have focused on the study and treatment of complex trauma and on the evolution of techniques related to neuroscience, such as mindfulness and dynamic Neurofeedback not -linear, tool that facilitates and supports the process of thinking and change that is activated in psychotherapy.

 

Neuroptimal with its own functioning helps to stay in the present, freeing it from the past.

A trained brain is ready for change and sustains it.