Dr. Silvia Vitello

Dr. Silvia Vitello is an English-speaking clinical psychologist in Milan. She receives patients in person in Milan and works online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, in English and Italian, with people from 16 years old onwards and with couples.

She graduated from the Faculty of Clinical and Health Psychology at San Raffaele University in Milan, and is close to completing her specialisation in cognitive-constructivist therapy and EMDR.

Eating disorders are the area where her experience is deepest. She worked for years with anorexia, bulimia and obesity at Niguarda Hospital in Milan, one of the largest hospitals in the country. Hospital work with eating disorders is not the same as reading about them: it is where the severe cases go, and it changes what a clinician recognises early.

She also has substantial experience with drug and alcohol addiction, gained at the NOA Centre, a service dedicated to addiction treatment.

A second strand of her work is couples. She holds a certificate in the treatment of groups and couples, and has worked privately with couples, individuals, families and groups. Her approach is cognitive-constructivist: the interest is not only in what you think, but in how you build the version of reality you are living inside, and what happens when two people build different ones.

She also works with stress-related disorders, the physical and psychological cost of a life that has been running at the wrong speed for too long.

She spent a year training in Canada, where she learned to hold clinical and cultural considerations together rather than treating culture as background noise. That is what made her a bilingual therapist rather than a therapist who happens to speak English, and it shows in how she works with people whose life is split across two countries.

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 Dr. Vitello is the right fit for what you are bringing, they will introduce you. The first call is free, and it is there to check that the fit is real before anything begins.

Dr. Vitello is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists (registration no. 21632). She receives in Milan and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.

Further reading from Therapsy: therapy for body image, support for binge eating in Italy.