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What makes Therapsy unique
12 languages
Our multilingual therapists break down communication barriers and provide support tailored to your emotional and cultural needs, so you feel truly heard and understood.
Online and in-person
Access therapy wherever you are, with flexible options for online or in-person sessions. Whether you prefer the comfort of your home or a safe and welcoming space, we adapt to your lifestyle.
No algorithms
Talk one-on-one with our Clinical Director, who will hand-pick the therapist best suited to your needs, preferences and language. No automated questionnaires or impersonal chats.
Why Therapsy exists
Most expats don’t quit therapy because they don’t need it.
They quit because they couldn’t be themselves in their fourth language.
They quit because they couldn’t be themselves in their fourth language.
I started Therapsy because I kept meeting people in Italy who had given up on therapy. Not because they didn't need it, because they couldn't find a therapist who'd understand them in their first language, and in their context, not just their words.
Licensed therapists hand-picked for you
Today, Dr. Francesca personally matches every new patient with a therapist from our carefully selected team.
How Therapsy works
1. Fill out the form
Tell us a bit about you and what’s on your mind. Our Clinical Director will contact you shortly via WhatsApp to personally guide you through the next step.
2. Personalized matching
Have a free dedicated conversation with our Clinical Director, who will carefully understand your needs, preferences, and language. Based on this, we will thoughtfully match you with the therapist who best fits your goals and personality.
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3. Free assessment call
Meet your assigned therapist for a free initial assessment call. This session is designed to get to know you, explore your concerns, and explain how therapy works.
4. Start your journey
Continue with flexible therapy sessions, online or in person across Italy. If the fit isn’t right, we’ll rematch you. No awkward conversations, no extra cost.
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Your questions, answered!
Quick answers to the questions most expats ask before booking. If you don’t see yours, just write to us at info@therapsy.it (we read every email).
Yes. Your first 15-30 minute assessment call with your assigned therapist is completely free, with no commitment to continue. You can use it to meet your therapist, share why you’re seeking therapy, and decide if it’s the right fit for you.
Matching is done by a real person, our Clinical Director Dr. Francesca A. Boccalari, not by an algorithm. After your free request, she reviews your needs, language, and preferences, then assigns you to one of 50+ licensed therapists. You’ll get the matched therapist’s name within a few hours.
Individual therapy starts from €70 per session, with no surcharge for online vs in-person. Couples therapy from €100, psychiatric consultations from €110. The first assessment call is always free. Italian tax deduction (19%) applies, and Cigna and other private insurance plans often reimburse therapy abroad.
Most clients start their first paid session within 3-5 days. The flow: you fill our form, our Clinical Director contacts you within a few hours, you’re matched with a therapist, then you have your free assessment call within 1-3 days. Italian private therapy waiting lists typically run 2-4 weeks, so we’re significantly faster.
Together our 50+ therapists speak 12 languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Polish, and Hebrew. You can do sessions in your native language whether you’re online or in person at one of our Italian locations.
Yes. Online sessions work from anywhere in Italy or abroad, in any of our 12 languages. In-person sessions are available across 20+ Italian cities including Milan, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Turin, Naples, and more. You can also mix online and in-person throughout your therapy.
Therapsy is a multilingual psychotherapy service in Italy, designed primarily for expats and international students. We connect you with licensed therapists who speak your native language, online from anywhere or in person across 20+ Italian cities. The first 15-30 minute assessment call is always free.
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How can we help you
Anxiety isn't always panic. Sometimes it's the 3 a.m. mental loops, or feeling on edge for no reason you can name. Our therapists help you find the root, not just manage the symptoms.
Depression doesn't always look like sadness. It often looks like going through the motions, losing interest in things you used to love, or feeling flat in a life that should be working. We help you find what's underneath, and slowly turn the volume back up.
Burnout doesn't show up overnight. It's the slow drift from caring about your work to dragging yourself through it. We help you spot the early signs, set the boundaries you've been avoiding, and rebuild a relationship with rest.
When emotions feel like the volume knob is broken (too much, too fast, too often) daily life becomes exhausting. We help you understand the patterns underneath, build skills to navigate them, and feel less at the mercy of your own reactions.
When the same fight keeps coming back, the problem usually isn't the fight. We work with couples and individuals on what's underneath the need that isn't getting heard, the pattern no one has named yet.
Anger is rarely the real emotion. It's usually fear, hurt, or exhaustion wearing a louder costume. Our therapists help you read what your anger is actually telling you, and respond instead of react.
Living with intrusive thoughts is exhausting - and the rituals you've built to cope often make it worse. We use evidence-based treatments (ERP, CBT) to help you turn down the volume on the thoughts and step out of the loop.
Especially abroad, social dynamics can feel like a game where everyone else got the rulebook. We help you build real connections, not just survive small talk.
Frequent conflict wears down even the strongest relationships. We help couples step out of the blame loop and into a conversation where both people actually feel heard.
Therapy built around your life
Adults
Modern life keeps raising the bar - on work, on parenting, on how you should look and feel. Most adults we see are exhausted from chasing a version of "good enough" that keeps moving. Add unresolved stuff from earlier in life and the result is the same: trouble sleeping, relationships that drain instead of fill, a vague sense of being behind on your own life. 
Couples
Most couples don't come to therapy because love is gone. They come because the same fight keeps coming back, communication has turned into walking on eggshells, or one move abroad has shifted the balance of the relationship in ways neither partner expected. We work on what's underneath the recurring fight: the need that isn't getting heard. 
Adolescents & young adults
Becoming an adult has never been more confusing. Add social media, climate anxiety, a job market that won't sit still, and you have a generation under constant low-grade pressure. We give teens and young adults a space that's not home and not school - somewhere to figure out who they are without being judged for the answer. 
Expats & foreign students
The first six months abroad are exciting. Then everyone goes back to their lives and you realize yours hasn't started yet. The friendships are surface-level, the bureaucracy never ends, the family group chat happens while you're asleep. Loneliness, anxiety, and a creeping sense of "what am I doing here" are not weakness - they're the most predictable consequence of moving countries. We're here for that part. 
Adults
Adult life doesn’t arrive with a manual, and the expat version has even fewer pages translated. Our adult patients come to us with the struggles that don’t make for good Instagram captions: a manager who won’t change, a marriage running on autopilot, a parent’s health starting to slip back home, the person you thought you’d be by now.
Therapy with us is a space to slow down and look at all of it without performing. We use evidence-based approaches (CBT, ACT, EMDR, psychodynamic) chosen for what helps you, not what we prefer.
Some people stay 8 sessions, some stay 2 years. Both are fine. What matters is that you leave each session with something you didn’t walk in with.
Couples
A large share of the couples we see are international: one partner moved for the other’s job, or you come from different countries and built your relationship in a third. The dynamics are real. The “trailing spouse” cliché exists because it captures something true: the quieter partner often loses career, identity, and social network at once, while the other is busy with the new role and doesn’t fully see it.
Couples therapy with us is not about finding who’s right. It’s about finding the conversation neither of you is having: the resentment that’s gone underground, the appreciation that’s gone unsaid, the assumption one of you brought from your culture and the other never agreed to.
Sessions can be in your shared language, or in two languages if each of you prefers their own. Most couples leave with fewer fights – not because they avoid them, but because what was underneath has finally been named.
Adolescents & young adults
Adolescents often arrive at our door through their parents – sometimes willingly, sometimes resentfully, occasionally as a condition. Either way, the first thing we do is build trust on the teenager’s terms, not the family’s. What gets shared with parents is decided with the teenager, never behind their back. Adolescents who feel monitored shut down; adolescents who feel respected open up.
Many of our young patients are third-culture kids: growing up in a country that isn’t their parents’ country, switching languages between school and dinner, holding identities that don’t fit the categories adults assume. We get this. Our therapists work in the languages your child actually thinks in, not just the one they were tested in at school.
Expats & foreign students
Expat life has phases. The honeymoon (everything is charming), the adjustment (everything is exhausting), the integration (everything is just… life), and for some, the return shock (going “home” and finding it’s not). Each phase comes with its own emotional load, and the load gets heavier when you can’t process it in the language you grew up in.
Therapy in your fourth language doesn’t fail because you can’t speak it well enough. It fails because grief, anger, shame, longing – the things therapy actually works on – live in your first language. Translating them in real time, while a stranger watches, is exhausting and inaccurate.
With a therapist who speaks your first language, you can stop translating yourself and start being yourself.
Latest insights
From our therapists, articles on what expats in Italy actually struggle with, and what helps.
- Dr. Francesca Adriana Boccalari
Your safe place in town
The numbers behind the work.
Our patients tell us how they feel, here’s what they say.
New patient retention
95%
Patients satisfaction
98%
Patients satisfaction at follow up (3YRS)
84%
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