Dr. Svetlana Loginova

Dr. Svetlana Loginova is a Russian and English-speaking clinical psychologist and systemic psychotherapist, working in Milan and Bergamo and online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, in Russian, English and Italian, with young adults, adults and couples.

She is Russian, from Saint Petersburg, and Russian is her first language. Her academic path crosses three countries: a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology in Saint Petersburg, advanced training in Neuropsychology at the University of Cyprus, a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bergamo, and a specialisation in Systemic Psychotherapy at the Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia, one of the most established schools in the field. She has over five years of clinical experience across private practice and public mental health services.

Her approach is systemic, and its premise changes what a symptom is taken to mean: not an isolated fault to be removed, but a meaningful expression of emotional pain, relational dynamics and the situation someone is actually living in. The work explores that wider context, so that a person no longer needs the symptom as a way of coping.

Her particular expertise is in eating disorders and in body image and body dissatisfaction, and in international couples and intercultural relationships.

She also works with migration, adaptation to a new country, life transitions, separation from parents and becoming independent, self-esteem, anxiety and stress. Among her techniques are mindfulness, Gestalt, projective methods and mirror therapy.

She moved country herself and rebuilt a professional life in a language that was not her own. For an international couple, or for someone who has emigrated and cannot explain to their family back home why it is harder than it looks, that is the difference between being understood and being interpreted.

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. Loginova 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. Loginova is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists (registration no. 24662). She receives in Milan and Bergamo and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.

Further reading from Therapsy: therapy for intercultural couples, therapy for body image.