Hello, I am Letizia, a bilingual therapist and mindfulness tutor.

After a long career in education (from 1983 to 2012), I retrained as a counsellor: since 2014 I have practised in NHS mental health services in different parts of the UK (Penzance, York, Newcastle) and delivered almost three thousand counselling sessions, both face to face and remotely.

Clients I have worked with include academics and teachers, asylum seekers, carers, ethnic minorities, medical doctors, police officers, refugees, students, and survivors of abuse. I have worked with a broad spectrum of human experiences and issues including bereavement, cultural diversity, depression, discrimination and inequality, gender identity and sexual orientation, relationship and family issues, self-harm and suicidal ideation, trauma, and work-related stress.

I have been a Zen meditation and mindfulness practitioner since 2002: the practices I have encountered during my retreats have helped me greatly to deepen my own self-awareness and to inform and enrich my therapeutic interventions as a counsellor.

When I am not working, I can be found on a yoga or meditation mat, on retreat or volunteering at a meditation centre, swimming in the North Sea, cycling and exploring the beauty of nature.

Qualifications and training:

Foundation Degree in Counselling
Certificate of competence: Person-centred Experiential Counselling for Depression
Certificate of achievement: The Couples Counselling Toolkit
Certificate of completion: Nonviolent Communication Foundation Training
Certificate of attendance: Introduction to Teaching Mindfulness
Certificate of attendance: The Mindful Therapy Programme

What I can help with:

Bereavement, communication issues, cultural identity, depression, discrimination and inequality, past abuse,
relationship dynamics, work-related stress.

Services:

Person-centred counselling, mindfulness-based counselling, couples therapy, counselling for education professionals, mindfulness courses.

Along with sessions in clinical rooms, I also offer outdoors and telephone therapy.

Fees:

One-to-one counselling £50.00
One-to-one mindfulness £ 50.00
Outdoor and telephone counselling £40.00
Couples Counselling £75.00
Mindfulness/meditation classes and workshops: prices on application

Where I work:

My face to face and outdoor work is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, around the Jesmond and Heaton areas.