Dr. Tehreem Qureshi

Dr. Tehreem Qureshi is an Urdu, Hindi and English-speaking psychologist in Naples, registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. She receives patients in person in Naples and works online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, with adults, couples, expats and international students.

She offers sessions in Urdu, Hindi, English and Italian. In Italy this combination is close to unique, and for a South Asian patient it removes the most common barrier to therapy: having to describe your inner life in a language you did not grow up in, to someone who will need the context explained first.

She is originally from Multan, in Pakistan. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and is specialising in Transactional Analysis, integrated with Gestalt and bioenergetic approaches.

She took part in an international research project with a thesis on identity development and cultural belonging among young adults with migrant backgrounds. That is not a peripheral academic interest: it is precisely the question a person is living through when they move country in their twenties and stop being sure who they are in either place. She also has a continuing focus on ethnopsychiatry, the study of how culture shapes both distress and care.

She has collaborated with Save the Children, UNICEF and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, supporting vulnerable populations including victims of torture and survivors of severe trauma, and has built strong competence in trauma-informed care.

Today she works with expats, international students and foreign nationals on cultural adjustment, anxiety, loneliness, identity, relationship difficulties and life transitions, as well as with depression, panic attacks, self-esteem, dependency and PTSD. Her method combines verbal processing, emotional awareness and attention to bodily experience.

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. Qureshi 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.

Dr. Qureshi is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists (registration no. 14446). She receives in Naples and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.

Further reading from Therapsy: therapy in your native language, the expat identity crisis.