Letizia Cardelli (Italian Board Certified)

Letizia is an Italian Borad certified systemic therapist who specializes in working with individuals and couples. She assists clients in identifying the dynamics that trigger and maintain symptoms by establishing a safe environment to explore daily challenges, coping mechanisms, and communication styles.
Therapy can help clients disentangle the reasons behind such symptoms, alleviate strain on each family member, and provide broader insight into relationships, expectations, and objectives. She also treats trauma using various approaches, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Adopting a Systemic Perspective means looking at presenting problems not just as isolated occurrences, but rather as part of an intricate set of interactions. These are, in turn, developed and maintained within our system – our family, partner relationships, and the lenses through which we experience the world. Therefore, developing deeper self-awareness of this complexity is the first step toward healing and gaining healthier coping strategies.
Issues like eating disorders, mood disorders, and communication issues are frequent challenges that individuals and families face, often causing immense distress. Counseling may also involve topics such as domestic violence, personality disorders, and histories of emotional abuse and trust issues – circumstances that can benefit from exploring partners’ typical coping strategies and relationship patterns in therapy.
The ultimate goal is to better understand what triggers reactions and gradually increase a sense of control over emotions and responses. In doing so, family members gain a different perspective on their own and each other’s roles in perpetuating an unhealthy and painful dynamic, paving the way for new interaction patterns.
Therapy guides them through a journey of independence from rigid or outdated perceptions and strategies. It helps develop flexible and adaptive alternatives, along with strengthened self-reliance and renewed control over life outcomes.

Letizia holds a BSc in Behavioral Science and Psychology of Social Interactions from the University of Bologna and an MSc in Clinical and Social Psychology from Sapienza University of Rome. She then participated in a specialized training program in Systemic Family and Couple Therapy at King’s College London.
Upon completing her degrees, she worked as a Systemic Couple and Family Therapist for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) at St. Thomas’ Hospital and Maudsley Hospital.
She also worked at San Marino State Hospital in both the Family unit and the Adults and Couples unit. Additionally, she worked at Centro Sammarinese di Andrologia as a Systemic Practitioner. Letizia has experience working with adoptions through the San Marino State Tribunal and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on reproductive health and IVF services through the Ministry of Health.
She holds a Master’s in Emergency Psychology and Psychotraumatology from the European Institute of Psychotraumatology and Stress Management. She also completed EMDR training through EMDR Europe Association.