Dr Arianna Masotti is a Clinical Psychologist with an interpersonal and humanistic psychodynamic approach.
Work experience in Italy
Dr Arianna completed a Distinction master’s in clinical psychology at University of Padova (110/110 cum laude), a distinction master in Nonverbal Behaviour, a master in Group Therapy and a master in Couple Therapy at the Erich Fromm Institute of Florence. She also completed a First-class honours degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques at the University of Trieste (110/110 cum laude).
She is registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the UK professional body Health Care Professions and Council (HCPC, n.PYL042675) and with the professional body Ordine degli Psicologi, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.
Dr Arianna Masotti has been regularly engaged working with young people, adults, providing 1:1 and group sessions in Bologna, Italy. She gained experience with assessments, formulation, and interventions using a psychodynamic approach. She has worked within a MDT of psychiatrist, psychotherapists, doctors and nurses in a private clinic in order to take care of clients at 360 degrees.
Work experience in UK
Between 2019 and 2023, Dr Arianna Masotti has gained research and clinical experience across the private, public, and charitable sectors both nationally and internationally.
She co-facilitated art-therapy groups as a volunteer with the Charity Mind helping clients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, PTSD overcome trauma and difficult emotions. She has also conducted research on the beneficial effect of music in improving memory in Alzheimer’s patients at Middlesex University’s Department of Neuroscience.
In addition, she has written a paper on the therapeutic effect of art therapy as a bridge to communicate one’s inner reality to the outside world when experiences are untranslatable in words.
Expertise
Dr. Masotti believes in a “no size fits all” approach, adapting accordingly to each client’s unique needs, creating a tailor-made therapeutic pathway for each client. She delivers psychodynamic therapy, CBT, CFT, ACT and mindfulness both for individuals and for couples.
Her main areas of expertise are:
- Relationships
- perfectionism, self-esteem, self-criticism
- narcissistic, borderline and dependent personality
- narcissistic abuse
- anxiety, stress, burnout, work-life balance
- eating disorders
- career goals, empowerment
- domestic and sexual abuse
Languages:
Italian and English.
Insurance:
Bupa, Axa, Vitality and Cigna.
In summary:
Dr. Arianna Masotti is an Italian Clinical Psychologist in London.