About me
Dott. Antonio Cozzi
Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with an integrated cognitivist and cognitive-behavioural orientation. I offer personalised therapy for adults and adolescents, in person and online.
I graduated in Clinical Psychology at the University of Padua and specialised in Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT). I work in private practice at my office in Padua and online.
I work with situations of distress, unease and suffering, periods of crisis or change, difficulties at work, in study and in relationships, and emotional difficulties, with particular attention to the early stages of these difficulties in adolescence. Beyond the most common forms of distress, I deal with clinical disorders, minor traumas and disorders from major trauma, obsessive symptoms and disorders, panic attacks, phobias, somatisation disorders, stress, depression, personality disorders and psychosis. Alongside psychological counselling and psychotherapy, I also offer psychological testing and assessment, support sessions for family members, psychoeducation, and the use and teaching of basic relaxation techniques.
My training, with a strong focus on clinical work and psychological disorders, has included the study of effective protocols and constant updating on scientific progress and research in psychology. During my specialisation and professional career I have integrated standard CBT practice with process-based and third-wave therapies, in particular Mindfulness and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Metacognitive and Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy, and DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy). I am a certified EMDR therapist, a member of the Italian Society of Psychotraumatology and, since 2014, a member of IEPA (International Early Psychosis Association).
After graduating and completing my first internships in the Psychiatry ward (SPDC) and the Mental Health Centre in Padua, I trained at the Orygen Youth Health Centre in Melbourne (Australia), an internationally renowned clinic and research centre, where I studied assessment and early intervention in psychotic onset and in the premorbid phases of psychological disorders, specialising in the care of adolescents and young adults in situations of distress or risk. I contributed to founding the Centro Adolescenza in Bassano del Grappa (ULSS 7), a service dedicated to at-risk adolescents and early psychopathology, and over the years I have worked with the Veneto public health authorities (ULSS) and local social cooperatives, combining clinical practice with research, science communication and teaching, and keeping up to date through national and international conferences.
Education
Specialisation in Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy
Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Ricerca (Studi Cognitivi Group), Milan
Certification as an EMDR Therapist (Levels I and II)
State examination and professional licence
International Psychologist Visitor
Orygen Youth Mental Health Center, Melbourne (Australia) · Director Dr. Patrick McGorry
Master's degree in Clinical Psychology
University of Padua
Bachelor's degree in Behavioural Sciences and Social Relations
University of Bologna
Professional experience
2016
Private practice
Private practice · Padua and online
Psychologist and Psychotherapist
ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana, Treviso Sud and Asolo districts · Childhood, Adolescence, Family and Counselling Unit — Developmental Age Service. Fenice Project: work with minors and with parents of young people in psychological distress (freelance engagement)
2023
Senior Psychologist
ULSS 5 Polesana, District 1 Rovigo · Disability and Non-Self-Sufficiency Unit — Disability Service (fixed-term post)
2022
Psychologist and Psychotherapist
ULSS 3 Serenissima, District 4 Chioggia · Childhood, Adolescence and Family Unit — District Adolescent Functional Unit (UFDA) (freelance engagement)
2013
Psychologist and Psychotherapist
ULSS 7 Pedemontana, District 1 Bassano del Grappa · Developmental Age Service – Centro Adolescenza, a service for early intervention with at-risk adolescents. Psychologist from 2016, psychotherapist from 2020 (freelance engagements); previously postgraduate and specialisation internships
Teaching and scientific work
I have written for the online scientific magazine State of Mind and authored studies presented at national and international conferences (including IEPA 2016 Milan, IEPA 2018 Boston, and the Riccione Forum of Psychotherapy and Research) on psychopathology in young people. Among these, the study New pathways of intervention for adolescents at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis was published in the international scientific journal Adolescent Psychiatry (vol. 8, no. 2, 2018).
Teaching
From youth distress to psychopathology: analysing risk factors through clinical case discussion
ULSS 6 Euganea · Psychiatry — Clinical psychology
Care models with reference to clinical pathways (PDTA) in borderline psychopathology and psychotic onset
ULSS 6 Euganea · Psychiatry — Clinical psychology
PSIVE 19 — Innovation of knowledge in psychiatry: the challenges within institutions
Italian Society of Psychiatry, Veneto Section
Lectures on at-risk states and psychotic onset in adolescence, psychosis and schizophrenia, within the Descriptive Psychopathology course
IUSVE University of Venice, Faculty of Psychology
Evidence, meaning and the sense of care in mental health
ULSS 7 Marca Trevigiana · Psychiatry Unit
2014
Collaboration on the Descriptive Psychopathology course (Prof. A. Silvestro)
IUSVE University of Venice, Faculty of Psychology
Registered in section A of the Veneto Order of Psychologists, no. 9746, since 22/02/2016.
Certified EMDR therapist · Member of IEPA and of the Italian Society of Psychotraumatology.
VAT no. (P.IVA): 05572710654