Dr. Anna Valfredi

Dr. Anna Valfredi is an English and Italian-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.

Fewer than 1 in 100 therapists joins the Therapsy team. Dr. Valfredi was personally vetted by our Clinical Director, Dr. Francesca A. Boccalari, on three non-negotiable criteria: she shares our values, she speaks at least one language beyond Italian, and she has a physical practice in Milan where you can meet in person, not only online.

Anna Valfredi does not work alone. She takes part in Therapsy’s internal clinical supervision, a standing group where therapists bring their most demanding cases, train together and ask for help when a situation calls for it. Every therapist 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 therapist 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 therapist she believes is right for you: Anna Valfredi, or one of her colleagues. Then you have a free introductory call with that therapist, 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 therapist 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. Valfredi is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. 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.