Born and raised in Italy, I attended the Classical branch of the Italian high school system. I went on to study Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Florence, before immigrating to Toronto in 1991.

An indirect and eclectic learning path, as a full-time housewife and mother, business owner and graduate of a six-year program in integrative energy medicine and bioenergetics, led me to reconnect with my calling and to apply in 2014 to the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy.

After graduating from the Centre in 2020, following my interest in the way shame and dissociation shape relational, emotional and cognitive capacity and in the therapeutic role of the embodied relational presence of the analyst, I trained at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and took courses with D.Dana on polyvagal theory applied to psychotherapy and with J.Fisher on trauma induced dissociation and fragmentation.

Currently I am a registered psychotherapist in private practice, working with adults struggling with the intersecting effects of developmental, multigenerational, historical and social trauma. I also hold a position as Graduate Fellow at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, supporting students in the Foundation Phase of the program.