About me | Priscilla Berardi MD, psychotherapist

Written by Priscilla Berardi on 13 April 2012.

Medical Doctor (enrolled in the Professional Register of Bologna), Psychotherapist with a Systemic-Relational approach, I work in private practices in Bologna and Rimini.
As a psychotherapist, my activity is addressed towards couples, families and individuals and it focuses on consultation, support and therapy.

As a trainer, I teach courses and conferences on sexuality, sexual identity, self-image, disability and limit management in various Italian cities. The target of my courses are families and all the professionals who work in the field of education, psychology and sexology.
Also linked to the area of sexuality, are the psychosocial research projects run with colleagues from diverse disciplines, examining e.g. disadvantages and resources in life of homosexual people who have a disability; the relationship between sexual orientation and mobbing, or between homosexuality and HIV-positive status. You can download the final reports of these investigations from my publications section on this website.

From 2010 to 2013 I joined the production of "Sesso, Amore & Disabilità" (Sex, Love & Disability), a documentary-film about sexuality, affectivity, and disability, as co-author and scientific supervisor (Italian audio; English, Spanish and French subtitles).

In order to acquire a more effective and grounded knowledge in Sexuality Studies, I have enriched my competences in Sexology specialising at the Italian Centre of Sexology in Bologna and at “Panta Rei” Centre of Milan. In April-May 2018, I attended a two-month supplementary detailed class about support to transition in gender dysphoria at the Italian Centre of Sexology in Bologna.

Since May 2018, I've been enhancing my techniques' range with EMDR Therapy training courses and in October 2022 I became EMDR Therapy Practitioner.

Relationship Addiction, also called Love Addiction, is another subject of profound interest to me. I work with love addicted patients in individual therapies and in mutual support groups.

From 2009, I have occasionally carried out evaluations regarding separation, custody, fostering and psychological damage, as an expert consultant for clients during Court-appointed expertise.

I am author of articles for Psicosessualità.it - Agi e Disagi della Sfera sessuale website and also for the magazine Fibromialgia. La rivista italiana, with the goal of spreading psychological and scientific information, awareness and knowledge about sexuality and relationships.

Psychological consultations are available in English and Spanish.
Online consultations are also available for Italian expats living abroad.

Sexology

Written by Priscilla Berardi on 14 June 2017.

Sexology is a recent science, its history is just over a century old but it is substantial and significant for the evolution of human knowledges. This discipline concerns social, psychological, cultural, anthropological, emotional, relational, physiological and medical aspects of sexuality.

When we talk about Sexuality we refer to non verbal communication between individuals, to the exchange and the emotional play that uses the body as a language and, at the same time, to the subjective dimension of being sexuate, to pleasure and self-care, to the contribution that sensory perceptions give to cognitive growth.

Thanks to awareness acquired in behavioural, medical, social and psychological fields, Sexologists now deal with many questions about human sexuality and can often help those who have problems in this sphere, through dialogue, listening and techniques of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, systemic-relational and socio-constructive repertoire. Sexological therapy sees beyond the sexual symptom and inside the sexual symptom, exploring the symptom’s history, its verbal and non-verbal expression, its mode of expression and area where it manifests. Sexologists recover the symptom’s meaning and permit the acquisition of new emotional and body language, offering alternative and more satisfying ways of ‘being together’ and looking to one selves.