Dr. Sudeh Hosseini

Dr. Sudeh Hosseini is an English and Persian-speaking clinical psychologist who works exclusively online, with patients across Italy and abroad, in English and Persian. She works with children, adolescents, young adults and parents. All her sessions are held online, so you can see her from anywhere in Italy or abroad.

She holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Tehran and is completing a second master’s in developmental and educational psychology at the University of Padua. She is registered with the Veneto Order of Psychologists and has worked in mental health for more than ten years.

She was born in Iran, and before joining Therapsy she worked as a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support consultant with immigrants, refugees and communities under strain. That matters in the room: the cultural adjustment, the language fatigue and the quiet grief of having built a life somewhere else are familiar ground for her, not something you have to explain from the beginning. For Persian speakers in Italy it also means therapy in your first language, which is often the only one in which certain sentences can be said at all.

Her work draws on cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy, which in practice means sessions that stay concrete: what happened this week, what set it off, and what can be done differently next time. Alongside that she teaches practical skills, from stress management to mindfulness and emotional regulation, the kind you practise between sessions rather than advice you receive during them.

She works with people carrying anxiety, low or unstable mood and difficulty regulating emotions, and with neurodivergent people, including those with ADHD and autistic experience. Her starting point is that a neurodivergent mind is not a fault to be corrected: the work is understanding how yours actually runs, and building a life and a set of strategies that fit it.

She also carries out clinical diagnosis and psychological assessment. For many people that is the step that turns a long-standing sense of something being off into something nameable, and therefore workable.

A substantial part of her practice is dedicated to parents. Through Parent Management Training she works both with parents who simply want to support their child’s development and with those raising children and adolescents through behavioural difficulties, anxiety or neurodevelopmental conditions. The work happens with the parents, in their own language, and it changes what happens at home during the week, not only what happens in the session.

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. Hosseini 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.

Fewer than 1 in 100 therapists joins the Therapsy team. Dr. Hosseini was personally vetted by our Clinical Director, Dr. Francesca A. Boccalari, on non-negotiable criteria: she shares our values and she speaks at least one language beyond Italian. She works online with patients across Italy and abroad.

Sudeh Hosseini does not work alone. She takes part in Therapsy’s internal clinical supervision, a standing group where clinicians bring their most demanding cases, train together and ask for help when a situation calls for it. Every clinician in the network, Case Managers included, can turn to our Clinical Director for clinical questions and further training, and Therapsy runs regular professional training with senior therapists and external trainers. Scheduling, invoicing, payments and the rest of the paperwork are handled by Therapsy, so that her time with you stays clinical work and nothing else. On your side, the same platform gives you one place to see your sessions, invoices, payments and documents.

At Therapsy you do not have to pick your clinician from a list: you start by speaking with Dr. Francesca Boccalari, our Clinical Director, who listens to what you are going through and matches you with the person she believes is right for you: Sudeh Hosseini, or one of her colleagues. Then you have a free introductory call, and only after that do you decide whether to start.

And if the fit turns out not to be right, you are not back at square one. Dr. Boccalari and her team find you another clinician inside Therapsy, at no cost, without you having to tell your story from the beginning. Choosing a therapist while you are struggling, in a language that is not your own, is a lot to ask of a person. That is the part we take on.

Dr. Hosseini is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. She works online only, with patients across Italy and abroad.