Dr. Sofia Collatina

Dr. Sofia Collatina is an English-speaking clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Rome. She receives patients in person in Rome and works online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, offering sessions in English, with adolescents, adults and parents.

She graduated summa cum laude in Developmental and Educational Psychology from the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, and began her clinical career at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and at the TSMREE, the public mental health and rehabilitation service for children and adolescents, working on early developmental dynamics.

She specialised in Socio-Cognitive Transactional Analysis at the SSSPC in Rome. Transactional Analysis is unusually legible as a method: it works on the patterns you repeat in relationships and on where they were learned, and its stated aims are awareness, spontaneity and intimacy. She describes her role as a professional adult companion: someone who walks alongside you rather than pronouncing on you, with autonomy as the goal.

Her work has two distinct halves.

Trauma and clinical work. She has advanced training in EMDR under Roger Solomon, one of the field’s most recognised trainers, and specialises in symptoms linked to traumatic experience, including PTSD and complex PTSD. She also treats mood disorders, including depression and anxiety, and sleep and eating disorders.

Life and career orientation. She works with students and young professionals on educational and career choices, on academic blocks and on burnout. For an international student or a young professional who moved country for a job that is not working, this is a specific and rarely offered combination: the clinical side and the practical decision, held by the same person.

She also offers parent training, and lived for two years in the United States as a child.

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. Collatina 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. Collatina 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 Rome where you can meet in person, not only online.

Sofia Collatina 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: Sofia Collatina, 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. Collatina is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. She receives in Rome and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.