Dr. Melania Anna Duca

I am a fully qualified, registered and accredited mental health professional working at Orthoderm Psychotherapy Clinical Department (Hillsborough, UK). I work predominantly with adults, families and couples. I do provide my services both face to face and online. I am specialised in personality disorders and neurodivergence. I have experience with counselling families of EUPD patients, adults with Asperger partner or children, coping strategies for OCD, paranoid thoughts and sex therapy. I do apply a mainly conservative and integrative approach to any psychological treatment. I do firmly believe that each one of us is unique and different so therapy has to be tailored on the specific needs of every new client asking for an assessment. My way of working is structured and systematic. A therapeutic plan is designed and agreed with the client before opening their folders. All cases are investigated carefully; confidentiality and protection of my clients’ privacy is a fundamental part of my work. I do often organise behavioural experiments to promote a new form of social therapy which my clients usually like to participate in and which empowers their journey towards recovery. I do offer two innovative mental health treatments: virtual reality exposure therapy and cranial electrotherapy stimulation, both within a psychoanalytic context.