Dr. Thieny Ribeiro

Dr. Thieny Ribeiro is a Portuguese, Spanish and English-speaking clinical psychologist in Padua. She receives patients in person in Padua and works online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, in Portuguese, Spanish, English and Italian, with children, adolescents and adults.

She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Padua and is training as a psychotherapist in a constructivist approach, specifically Personal Construct Psychology. The premise is that each person builds their own working model of the world out of what they have lived, which means the therapy has to start from that model rather than from a general one.

She has extensive experience with young adults and adolescents facing psychiatric difficulties in vulnerable contexts: settings where support is thin and where a young person is often dealing with more than their diagnosis.

A distinct part of her work is palliative psychology. She supports people and families facing life-limiting illness, and works with grief, existential distress and the practical weight of that period. It is among the hardest areas in the profession and one of the least covered: most people in it are told to be strong and left to manage. Working in your own language matters here more than anywhere.

She also works with personality disorders and uses autogenic training, a structured relaxation method with a long evidence base.

Her therapeutic method centres on a collaborative and empathetic relationship, guiding people through their own narratives towards self-awareness, and she works with an explicitly intercultural perspective, adapting to each person’s background rather than expecting them to adapt to hers.

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. Ribeiro 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. Ribeiro is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists (registration no. 14613). She receives in Padua and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.

Further reading from Therapsy: grief therapy in English in Italy, therapy in your native language.