Dr. Irene Pinucci

Dr. Irene Pinucci is an English-speaking psychiatrist working in Florence and in Rome, and online with patients elsewhere, in English, French and Italian. She is a medical doctor specialised in diagnostic assessment and pharmacological prescription.

That distinction matters, and it is worth being explicit about it. A psychiatrist is a doctor: she can make a diagnosis and prescribe medication, which a psychologist cannot. The two roles are not alternatives. Many people are best served by therapy alone, some by a psychiatric assessment alone, and some by both running in parallel, with the therapist and the psychiatrist each doing what they are trained for.

She graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Florence and specialised in Psychiatry at Sapienza University in Rome.

She is committed to scientific research and is currently a PhD candidate in Clinical Experimental Neuroscience and Psychiatry. For a patient this is not an academic detail: prescribing well depends on keeping up with evidence that changes, and someone doing research is reading it as it arrives.

Her strongest clinical experience covers mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders and sleep disorders.

She also works with the psychiatric side of physical illness, including oncological disease. It is a specific and often neglected area: what a serious diagnosis does to sleep, to mood and to the sense of a future is a clinical matter in its own right, not something to be endured quietly alongside the treatment.

During her training she spent several months in Paris and Amsterdam, and she works with patients from all over the world in English and French. A psychiatric consultation is a conversation in which precision matters more than almost anywhere else in medicine, and being able to hold it in your own language changes what the doctor actually hears.

You do not have to pick her yourself. At Therapsy every person is matched by a human being, not by an algorithm: our clinical team reads your request, and if a psychiatric assessment with Dr. Pinucci is what fits, they will introduce you. The first call is free, and it is there to check that the fit is real before anything begins.

Dr. Pinucci is a registered medical doctor with the Italian Medical Association (registration no. 14217). She receives in Florence, in Rome subject to availability, and works online.