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.

Fewer than 1 in 100 therapists joins the Therapsy team. Dr. Qureshi 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 Naples where you can meet in person, not only online.

Tehreem Qureshi 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: Tehreem Qureshi, 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. Qureshi is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. 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.