Dr. Anna Valfredi

Dr. Anna Valfredi is an English-speaking clinical psychologist and psychotherapist 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 adolescents from 12 years old, young adults, adults, couples and parents.

She graduated in Clinical, Developmental and Neuropsychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca and specialised in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at Area G in Milan, with a focus on adolescence and adulthood. She has years of clinical experience across private practice and public mental health services.

What sets her practice apart is who she has worked with. She has extensive experience with expatriates, migrants, refugees and international patients, and her declared focus is identity, cultural transitions and the psychological impact of migration.

That is a spectrum most therapists never see the ends of. Someone who moved for a job and someone who arrived with no choice at all are living different situations, but they share the part nobody at home understands: that you can be safe, employed and fine on paper, and still not know who you are here.

She works with anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, OCD, identity difficulties, school and work stress, parenting and family difficulties, trauma, grief and life transitions.

Her approach is psychoanalytic, constructivist and relational: it takes the relationship in the room seriously as the place where things change, and reads a difficulty through the history and the meanings a person has built around it.

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. Valfredi 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. Valfredi is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists (registration no. 22109). She receives in Milan and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.

Further reading from Therapsy: the expat identity crisis, grief therapy in English in Italy.