Mrs. Graziella Ferigo | Psychologist and Psychotherapist

We use – brief and advanced interventions (10 sessions) – for the treatment of specific mental health problems such as: •Anxiety disorders •Obsessive-Compulsive disorders •Depression •Eating disorders •Relationship problems (families & couples) When we have a problem we try to find a solution by choosing among the “coping strategies” that worked in the past. It’s an automatic response based on associative processes. In some cases it works quite well and the problem is solved. However people requesting psychological support have already tried to solve their problems several times with “attempted solutions”. In most of the cases the attempted solutions have become the problem in itself (Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch, 1974). In fact the reiteration of them become a vicious circle of “helpless and worthless” feelings. Our therapy aims to break the vicious circle through specific strategies, apparently simple solutions – which enable the clients to – perceive the problem from a different perspective and solve it in a short period of time (ten sessions). The Brief Strategic Therapy model The Brief Strategic Therapy was born formally as Brief Therapy in the early ’70’s from the meeting between the tradition of Brief Systemic-Strategic Therapy of the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto and the therapy developed by Milton Erickson in the context of the so-called hypnosis without trance. The clinical research and practice carried out within the last twenty five years by the Strategic Therapy Centre of Arezzo directed by Prof Giorgio Nardone, has produced significant achievements in terms of efficacy and effectiveness of specific therapeutic interventions. Dr Graziella Ferigo is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist accredited with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and with the British Psychological Society (BPS). She is a Brief strategic Therapist and strongly believes in the importance of working in partnership with her clients in order to solve their problems in a short period of time and enhance their wellbeing. For more than ten years she has been working as a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist in London both in the private and in the public sectors (North East London Foundation Trust, West London Foundation Trust, East London Foundation Trust, Springfield University Hospital). She had undertaken her training in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bologna and clinical placement at the Department of Mental Health – Az. Ca’Granda Niguarda, Niguarda Hospital – Milano. After the State examination for Chartered Psychologists, she had carried out her postgraduate specialisation in Psychotherapy. She trained in Brief Strategic Therapy at the School of post-graduate specialisation in Brief Strategic Therapy -Centro di Terapia Strategica (CTS) of Arezzo, founded by Paul Watzlawick and Giorgio Nardone. Dr. Graziella Ferigo had been working with other professionals to support clinical research conducted by the Centre of Strategic Therapy of Arezzo and carried out the role of representative – responsible of the Master in Brief Strategic Psychotherapy of Milan organised by the Centre of Brief Strategic Therapy from 2003 until 2005. Within her clinical experience she has developed a specific attention to the woman condition and its psychological implications. Dr. Graziella Ferigo is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist accredited with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and with the British Psychological Society (BPS). She is also registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Free initial phone consultation Health insurance provider: Aviva, Cigna, Bupa, Healix, Vitality e Axa.