Dr. Eleonora Semenzato

Dr. Eleonora Semenzato is an English and Italian-speaking clinical psychologist in Padua and Venice. She receives patients in person in Padua and in Mestre, on the Venice mainland, and works online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, in Italian and English.

She graduated in Psychology at IUSVE in Mestre and is in her second year of postgraduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the COIRAG school in Padua. Alongside it she has completed a Master’s in Counselling and a Master’s in Psychotraumatology at the A.T. Beck school in Rome, and trained in Autogenic Training and clinical hypnosis at CISSPAT in Padua.

She was born in Venice, and before focusing on clinical work she worked in residential communities for minors, in nursery schools and in special education support. Those settings shaped her sensitivity to helping relationships and her ability to meet a very wide range of needs.

Her way of working is informed by her psychoanalytic training. The work starts from what you bring and pays attention to what repeats: the patterns in relationships, the reactions that feel bigger than the situation, the questions that keep coming back. The aim is not only to ease what hurts now, but to understand where it comes from.

She offers psychological support to people dealing with anxiety, with moments of crisis or change, and with difficult or painful experiences, drawing on her training in psychotraumatology. When stress has settled into the body, Autogenic Training can become part of the work, as a practical way to bring the level of tension down between sessions.

She sees the therapeutic relationship as a space not only to relieve suffering but to grow: to build a life that feels more authentically your own, rooted in what you are actually capable of.

She also offers support to couples, in Italian and in English, for partners who want to understand what keeps going wrong between them before it hardens into distance.

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. Semenzato 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. Semenzato 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 Padua and Mestre where you can meet in person, not only online.

Eleonora Semenzato 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: Eleonora Semenzato, 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. Semenzato is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. She receives in Padua and in Mestre and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.