I'm Ylenia.
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Couples Therapist 3+ years clinical experience NCPS accredited English Italian

About me

Why relationships,
and why repair.

I’m Italian, from Lazio, and I’ve lived in the UK for over ten years. I work in both languages, and I know from the inside what it takes to build a relationship across two countries: the small daily translations, and the ones that aren’t about language at all.

I didn't come to this work by accident. I grew up in a family where arguments never got sorted out. Nothing was ever repaired, it just went quiet and came back later. That's why repair is the thing I care most about: nobody is born knowing how to do it. It can be learned, I had to learn it myself.

I studied and worked full time for years to get here: a degree in Psychosocial Studies & Psychodynamic Counselling, then years volunteering with Samaritans, then a two-year Level 5 Diploma specialising in relationship counselling.

Samaritans taught me the thing Ylenia Therapy is built on: being properly heard changes what a person can bear to say next. 

In the room I'm warm, but I don't drift. I'll say what pattern I can see and hold you both to it equally; because neither of you is the problem here. The pattern between you is.

And because I live between two languages myself, I know how much falls into the gap. For couples from two cultures, that gap is often the whole argument.

My priority is a therapy shaped around you: tailored to what you actually need, because your wellbeing matters, wherever you are.

MY JOURNEY

I came for a year. I'm still here.

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