English-Language Counselling · Bergamo & Online
Counselling that
actually moves
you forward.
In-person in Bergamo. Online across Italy and worldwide. Working in English with a multi-modality approach — because some things need more than a conversation.
"I've been going to the same therapist for years and nothing has really changed."
Good conversation isn't the same as good therapy. If you're not moving, something needs to change — including possibly the approach.
"I can't find anyone who works in English and actually understands where I'm coming from."
Working in your first language isn't a luxury. When the work goes deep, precision matters. So does being understood without translation.
"I don't want to be in therapy forever. I just want to get through this."
That's a reasonable expectation. Counselling that works should make itself unnecessary — not create an appointment you feel you can never miss.
What I Help With
The things that keep
showing up.
These are the patterns I work with most. Not because they're simple — but because they respond well to the right approach.
Anxiety & Stress
The mind that won't switch off
Persistent worry, overthinking, physical tension, the sense that something is always about to go wrong. Anxiety responds well to the right combination of approaches — and is frequently mishandled by generic talking therapy alone.
Burnout & Exhaustion
Running on empty
When you've been operating beyond your capacity for too long and the usual recovery stops working. Burnout is not laziness — it's a mechanics problem. Understanding how your energy actually works is where the rebuild begins.
Midlife Transitions
The checkpoint nobody warned you about
Around 38–52, something shifts. The career, the relationship, the sense of purpose — things that used to feel settled suddenly don't. This isn't a crisis. It's a developmental stage with its own logic. Understanding it changes everything.
Low Mood & Depression
When the colour drains out
Not every episode of depression requires years of analysis. Many respond well to targeted, structured work that addresses the patterns maintaining it — often more quickly than people expect.
Motivation & Procrastination
Knowing what to do and not doing it
The gap between intention and action is rarely about willpower. It's usually about fear, identity, or a mismatch between how you're wired and what you're trying to do. Finding the real reason changes the result.
Identity & Self-Worth
Not being sure who you are anymore
After relocation, career change, relationship transition, or becoming a parent — the sense of self can become uncertain. This is normal. And there is a way through that doesn't involve pretending you're fine.
Relationships & Communication
Patterns that keep repeating
The same argument. The same dynamic. The same feeling after. Relationship patterns are usually old — and they respond well to work that goes beneath the surface of what's being said.
Life Direction & Purpose
The quiet question underneath everything
What am I actually doing this for? Sometimes the presenting problem isn't the real problem. Counselling that goes deep enough often uncovers a direction question that was always there — and never asked.
Adolescents & Teens
When the usual conversations aren't landing
Working with young people navigating pressure, identity, social complexity, academic stress and digital life. In English, with someone who understands what it means to grow up between cultures. In addition to clinical training, I hold a double degree in Education — so I understand the academic environment and the system your child is moving through, not just the emotional experience of it.
Career & Leadership
Where professional life
meets the human underneath it.
Twenty years inside global organisations — major international banks, global law firms, listed engineering and construction groups — working with leaders, graduates, high-performers and people navigating pivotal career moments gives me a perspective on professional life that most counsellors simply don't have.
I've sat across from people at every level: the new graduate trying to find their footing, the manager who can't understand why they keep hitting the same ceiling, the senior leader who has everything on paper and feels completely hollow. The professional context is never separate from the personal one. I work with both.
This isn't life coaching dressed up in corporate language. It's the real intersection of clinical depth, professional experience and a genuine understanding of how organisations — and the people inside them — actually work.
Career Counselling
Finding the work that actually fits
For people at a crossroads — facing redundancy, considering a change, returning after a break, or simply feeling that what they're doing no longer makes sense.
- Career direction and pathway clarity
- Values and design-based career mapping
- Transition support — roles, sectors, countries
- Graduate and early careers guidance
- Redundancy and career reset support
Leadership Development
Leading from who you actually are
For leaders who want to develop — not through generic frameworks, but through a genuine understanding of how they are wired to lead, decide, and influence.
- Executive coaching — 1:1 individual sessions
- Leadership identity and presence
- Decision-making under pressure
- The invisible ceiling — why capable people stall
- Leading through change and uncertainty
Performance & Wellbeing
Sustainable high performance
For professionals who are performing but at a cost — and want to understand how to sustain output without sacrificing everything else.
- Burnout prevention and recovery
- Energy management by design
- Confidence and imposter phenomenon
- Work-life integration for the genuinely busy
The Approach
Different tools.
One direction.
Modalities used
The modality is chosen based on what your situation needs — not what I happen to offer. Sometimes one session uses several. Sometimes one is enough on its own.
Expat Support
Living here is not the same
as belonging here.
I moved to Italy from Australia with my family. I know what it costs to rebuild a life in a country that wasn't yours — the administrative exhaustion, the language barrier that closes off your interior life, the grief that comes with distance, and the strange dissonance of living somewhere beautiful while quietly falling apart.
The expat experience is not a minor inconvenience. It is a profound identity disruption that most support structures — and most therapists — are not equipped to meet properly. Working in your first language, with someone who has lived it, changes the quality of what's possible.
I work with expats across Italy — in Bergamo in person, and anywhere via secure video. Whether you've just arrived, have been here for years, or are navigating a return, this is a space where you don't have to translate yourself.
What expat clients typically bring
- Identity loss — "I don't know who I am here"
- Isolation and loneliness despite a full life on paper
- Relationship strain — the move that was harder on one of you
- Career disruption and professional identity questions
- Parenting between cultures — especially as children navigate schools
- The grief of distance from family and the life you left
- Anxiety about belonging, language, permanence
- The "when do we go home?" question that has no easy answer
- Navigating Italian bureaucracy, healthcare and systems without burning out
About Tania
The background
behind the work.
I came to counselling through an unusual route. Twenty years in corporate HR, learning and development, and organisational change — inside major international financial institutions, global law firms, and large engineering and construction organisations — before training formally in clinical practice.
That combination is not accidental. Sitting across from hundreds of high-functioning people in corporate environments taught me something that most clinical training doesn't: the presenting problem is rarely the real problem, and the solution is almost never the one the person came in with. I learned to read what wasn't being said long before I had the clinical language for it.
I then trained formally in psychotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy, NLP and coaching — because I wanted tools that matched the depth of what I was seeing. Counselling that only works at the surface level is, in most cases, just expensive company.
I moved to Italy and rebuilt my life and practice from the ground up. I offer counselling in English, in person in Bergamo and online worldwide — to people who are ready to actually move, not just talk about it.
Please note: In accordance with Italian professional regulations, I practise as a Counsellor in Italy. I hold formal postgraduate qualifications in psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy obtained in Australia.
Qualifications
Memberships
Practical Information
How to get started.
Sessions
50 minutes, by appointment
In-person in Bergamo or via secure video. Individual sessions, no minimum commitment. Frequency agreed together based on what your situation needs.
First step
A short introductory call
Before booking, I offer a 15-minute call to understand what you're looking for and answer any questions. No pressure, no commitment. Just a real conversation first.
Contact
Reach out directly
Email info@taniaromeo.com or book a call via the link below. I respond within one business day.
"The goal of counselling is not to make you comfortable with your life as it is. It's to help you build one you don't need to escape from."
Tania Romeo
Ready to have a different kind
of conversation?
In-person in Bergamo or online, wherever you are. The first call is free — no commitment, no pressure. Just an honest look at whether this is the right fit.