Mr Alessandro Carmelita

Mr Alessandro Carmelita is a psychologist and psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience helping patients. He specialises in a range of problems including relationship issues, stress and trauma, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and dissociative disorders. He treats both adults and children as well as individuals and couples. Mr Carmelita studied clinical psychology and cognitive behavioural psychotherapy at the University of Padua in 1998. He has attended an intensive course in CBT as well as training by Zindel Sigal and Mark Williams in Mindfulness.

Mr Carmeliata founded the Institute of Cognitive Sciences in 2004 with his wife, Valeria. The organisation contributes to psychotherapy and neuroscience events, allowing for leading experts in the field to deliver talks and workshops. Mr Carmeliata has specialised in schema therapy at the Schema Therapy Institute of New York and has also trained in emotionally focussed therapy for couples at Ackherman Institute of New York. He now trains other psychologists and psychotherapists and has created a new approach to treating emotional problems called MIMT (mindful interbeing mirror therapy).