Dr. Mariateresa Volpe

Dr. Mariateresa Volpe is a French and English-speaking psychologist and CBT psychotherapist in Bari. She receives patients in person in Bari and works online with people across Italy and around the world, in French, English and Italian, with adolescents, adults and couples.

She is licensed in both Italy and Quebec, Canada, and has over 15 years of clinical experience. Dual licensing is rare and it means something concrete: her qualifications have been examined and accepted under two different regulatory systems, on two continents.

Her work is firmly evidence-based, drawing mainly on third-wave cognitive behavioural therapy: DBT, ACT, CBT-E and mindfulness, adapted to the person rather than applied as a fixed sequence.

Her particular expertise is in eating disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, personality disorders, complex trauma and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She also works on burnout and work-related stress, and offers parent training.

She has specific experience supporting LGBTQI+ communities and, unusually, states plainly that she takes on complex clinical cases. Most practices quietly filter those out. For a person who has already been passed along more than once, a therapist who says this openly is worth knowing about.

Between the dual licensing, the fifteen years and a practice held in English and French, she is a natural fit for expats and international patients who need both cross-cultural understanding and serious clinical depth.

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. Volpe 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. Volpe 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 Bari where you can meet in person, not only online.

Mariateresa Volpe 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: Mariateresa Volpe, 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. Volpe is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists and licensed in Quebec. She receives in Bari and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.