Valentina Iadeluca

Psychologist & Psychotherapist

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy

Primary Attachment Therapy
Passion & Presence®
CBT
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Welcome!

PSYCHOLOGIST, SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST
CERTIFIED HAKOMI THERAPIST & TEACHER
MINDFULNESS TEACHER & TRAINER
AUTHOR

Before we begin any deep and intimate work together, it is important for you to take the time to understand who I am, what experience I have, and my vision. Take the time on to consider whether the counselling I offer could be right for you at this moment in time.

First and foremost, I’m a licensed, internationally trained psychologist and somatic psychotherapist. I was also the first Certified Hakomi Therapist & Trainer in Italy. Building on this foundation, I have travelled the world seeking out effective healing techniques from Eastern and Western schools of thought, so my clients can count on a fully personalized, caring and, above all, effective approach to their mental health.

The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves.
C.P. Estes

My Approach

My approach to psychotherapy is mainly inspired by the Hakomi Method, integrated with techniques from Primary Attachment Therapy.

Hakomi MSP is a gentle yet powerful approach based on the following guiding principles:

Primary Attachment Therapy is designed to uncover how we learned to exist and connect with others in our earliest years of life. These ways of interacting with others continue to shape our interpersonal relationships in the here and now and are often behind our sense of dissatisfaction with the way we relate to the people we love.

In addition to exploring your personal experiences, feelings and emotions, we will take time to observe the bodily sensations that accompany them.

I have been trained in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), which allows me to calibrate work on deeper issues, acting on the symptoms that a person finds limiting and accompanying them in identifying the right strategies that will empower them to face and overcome the challenges of life, whether large or small.

Why not give it a try?

See if my approach to psychotherapy is what you have been looking for

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Polyvagal Theory in Action

What makes some people respond effectively and creatively to life’s challenges? What makes them able to re-emerge from pain and difficulties quickly? The answer is the flexibility of their Nervous System.
Polyvagal Theory elucidates how the Nervous System responds to safety or danger inputs detected in the environment, determining our feelings and our narratives about reality.
Wired to Connect is a group program that teaches how to recognize the impact of these processes on our experience and to dialogue with our biology, re-educating it to dwell in a state of regulation.
Our ancestral need for connection – to ourselves, others, and life – can find fulfillment here.
The authors integrate disciplines as diverse as yoga, meditation, or music and structure a path rich with practical tools such as theoretical windows, exercises, and guided immersions in mindfulness. The program’s conduction is simple and accessible to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers, educators, community workers, and health professionals.

In bookshops and on Amazon from March 2022!

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

This book is the Italian edition of the volume by Woods and Rockman, “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Protocol, practice, and teaching skills”, which I translated into Italian and edited. It is a comprehensive guide to facilitating the 8-week program that allows instructors to teach the heart of MBSR.

In bookshops and on Amazon from January 2022!

Meditare con la vita

Mindfulness is a practice steeped in age-old wisdom that, in its radical essentiality, allows us to regain a sense of freedom and control over our own lives. It consists simply of stopping and observing reality in a non-judgmental way as it presents itself to us here and now. It teaches us to dwell in the moment and fully savor its juice.

The book helps the reader become familiar with meditation in its various forms by presenting numerous mindfulness exercises. The emphasis is on transferring the same quality of presence experienced during meditation into everyday life: from daily tasks to relationships to the profession. It concludes with a review of psychotherapeutic models based on mindfulness.

It concludes with a review of psychotherapeutic models based on mindfulness.

What I offer

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