Luca Fiorilli

At the moment I am mostly working on-line. I am pretty flexible with times and days of the week. I have some availabilities on each day of the week.

It seemed very clear to me then that the key to making art was not in surrendering your story, but in surrendering your desire to fight it." (Ann Patchett)

I believe that there is a time in life when we feel ready to start the therapeutic journey with somebody. This moment is called the "kairos", the appropriate time. I can help you find out if this is your moment to ask for help or not.

Most of us are dealing with anxiety, that feeling of having no choice but being trapped in a place, our lives, that is getting tighter and tighter. We feel we cannot breathe, we cannot move: our relationships go wrong, we don't feel supported. We are away from our families, our friends are busy. Having to face this, some of us rely on depression and sadness, other become even more activated and try every solution.

This is where I think there is a chance to find the right moment for therapy and find an ally that helps us make space for us to breathe. Life is too big for one person only.

I support therapy as an act of responsibility. By this I do not mean, culpability, blame or guilt. I mean the "the ability to respond" to ourselves and to other people or life events. We can't heal or fix everything, but we can relate and respond to what is making us suffer. I am not particularly focused on a therapy based on "who have you been" as much as "who are you being and who may you be". Therapy is the place where we can still surprise ourselves, where the unexpected is yet to come.

Mostly the idea of therapy I have is progressive, which means that all suffering is linked to how we are dealing with a life crisis that is addressing our present and , even more important, our future.

Whenever there is a crisis we are faced with a current coming from the past and one from the future. We are stuck in the middle dealign with both currents. That is where I can be with you and next you.

I have developed in the last few years a strong interest in working with masculinity, spirituality and couple work.

Also I work a lot on line with expats and themes about belonging and isolation.

I am also a clinical psychologist in Italy where I have worked with adolescents and family.

What do I work with?

Some of the themes that interest me are:

anxiety, general detachment and lack of interest for life

relationships (couples therapy)

ageing and illness

spirituality

complex trauma

sexuality

bereavement

masculinity- fatherhood

LGBTQ+

artists and creativity (creative processes