Services
I offer individual therapy either one-to-one or in a group setting.
All the sessions I offer are online (Zoom). My working languages are English and Italian. I understand Norwegian.
› Online one-to-one therapy session
Be met where you are, as you are, with any problem, issue, question you would like to address, explore, find clarity about. The session involves a “self-encounter” and lasts up to 90 minutes.
Online | Price: €114
› Online group therapy session
Are you a group of friends who would like to work together? Would you like to have a “self-encounter” with your own group of participants? Please contact me to arrange one or a series of group sessions.
I warmly welcome men’s groups.
Online | Price subject to agreement
› Online workshops for involuntarily childless
I offer online workshops for groups of women, men, or mixed groups to organizations, support networks, groups of individuals, and institutions. The workshops are designed to help participants deal with the emotions, questions and problems that revolve around involuntary childlessness. You can explore below an example of what a 6-session workshop might involve. Contents of the sessions and their number, however, can be taylored to your specific needs.
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I facilitate these sessions by drawing on my own experience as infertility survivor, trauma therapist, researcher of the way society subtly makes us “invisible.” The sessions are designed to combine honouring participants’ emotions (the heart) with reflections on issues that affect them as individuals without children (the mind) and strategies to improve their daily well-being (the body).
The group is a safe space where participants are welcome as they are and where all their feelings are valid: there is no shame, no judgement, no “have you thought about…?” They are all part of a supportive community Read more ›
The group setting is ideal to:
- Realize one is not alone
- Share one’s experience (as much or as little as one feels like) or be inspired by that of others
- Understand how deeply the roots of the grief for the loss of parenthood reach into one’s past, mind and body
- Find support and understanding while dealing with difficult emotions and important questions
Explore possible themes for a 6-session workshop
1. The shock of infertility
We thought it would be easy, but it did not turn out that way. Questions we will explore in this session are: What is our story? How are we dealing with the most unexpected change of plan in our life? How do we begin to navigate a life we had not even imagined?
2. Childlessness and trauma
Infertility, pregnancy loss, IVF treatment, among other experiences, can all be traumatizing in themselves. In addition, they might also nest within previous traumas. In this session we explore the deep and multifaceted repercussions that trauma has on our lives.
3. Grief and loss
Yes, it is possible to grieve somebody who was never born and never died, or lived only briefly. In addition to this, not having a baby is not one issue, it rather has many dimensions: we are going to explore the multifaceted repercussions that not having a child has on the entire course of our life.
4. Who am I now? Identity and the body
In a society that continuously tells us that it is by having a child that we become “real” women, who are we? Do we see ourselves as women at all? How comfortable are we with our femininity? We will be dealing with issues of identity, gender, and the relationship to our bodies.
5. Navigating relationships and friendship
When, one by one, our friends tend to disappear into their newly formed families, it is easy to become isolated. We might also not want to spend time close to children because it hurts too much. In this session we will address the question: How to manage friendships, relationships, and social engagements?
6. Where do we go from here? Looking at the future
Childlessness does not stop when you “stop trying”: not having children affects our entire life-course. For example, as we grow older, we will be reminded that we are “different” when people around us will start getting grandchildren. In this session we deal with the questions: How do we relate to the future? How can we re-imagine the notion of “family” so that we feel welcome and “at home”? What does not having children mean for how we organize ourselves and manage our resources?
‘I am looking forward to joining the online workshop for involuntarily childless because I struggle with the fact that childlessness is still a taboo that is rarely talked about. Personally, I don’t know any other women who have gone through similar experiences, adding to the feeling of loneliness. I am eager to connect with others, support one another in our different journeys of childlessness, and be inspired by each other’s resilience. I know that Cristina will create a space where all these feelings can be present and where she will guide us through the sessions with care and respect’ (Maria, Vienna, Austria)
Conditions
Payment
Payment online by card or upon reception of invoice, either by card or bank transfer. In all cases please provide correct details of name, surname and address. Payment is required before the session.
Cancellations & non-attendance
If you cancel more than 24 hours in advance your booking can be transferred to a later date. With less than 24 hour notice or in case of non-attendance, unfortunately it will not be possible to provide a refund.
“Participant” bookings in scheduled group sessions and in bespoke group sessions: in case of cancellation or non-attendance these places are unfortunately non-refundable.
Non-attendance in a package of multiple sessions is also non-refundable.
