
ATLANTIC CBT & EMDR IS A PROFESSIONAL, COMPASSIONATE AND CONFIDENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE OFFERING EVIDENCE BASED AND EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES.


ROMINA SCARAMAGLI - PSYCHOTHERAPIST
ABOUT ME
I am an Accredited CBT and EMDR psychotherapist providing a professional, compassionate and confidential psychotherapy service to adults. I offer evidence based and effective psychological therapies that are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
I am based in Cornwall and offer either in person sessions in Cornwall or secure online video therapy sessions using Zoom to clients throughout the UK. Myself and many other therapists have found online sessions to be as effective as face to face. I offer a free 15 minute phone consultation for you to ask me any questions, discuss your needs and help us decide if I might be an appropriate therapist for you to book an assessment with. Please contact me to arrange this.

Do you feel bad about yourself and worry what others think of you?
Does that stop you from doing things or do you neglect your own needs?
Does this make you feel sad and anxious?
I can work with you to understand what is contributing to and maintaining unhelpful patterns like this and learn skills to develop more helpful and positive beliefs about yourself so that you can achieve your goals.

Do you have intrusive memories about past upsetting or traumatic experiences that make you feel anxious or overwhelmed?
Does this make you feel unable to cope with daily life?
Do you try to avoid thinking about these things but find that very difficult?
I can work with you to process past trauma so that you can move forward in your life.

Do you worry excessively about things that don't seem to bother other people?
Does this make you feel anxious and exhausted?
Do you feel the need to plan for every eventuality or control situations?
I can help you understand why you are doing this and learn strategies to let go of worry and get on with doing the things you want to in your life.

Do you experience distressing intrusive thoughts that make you feel anxious?
Do you engage in behaviours to try to manage this but find they only help for a short while before the whole cycle starts again?
I can help you understand why this is happening and learn ways to let go of upsetting thoughts and feel able to get on with your life.

DIFFICULTIES I CAN HELP YOU WITH?
I work with people with a range of mental health problems including:
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Anxiety
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Attachment wounds
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Busy mind
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Coping with bullying
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Depression
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Excessive worry
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Fear of flying
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Flashbacks
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Health anxiety
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Impact of ADHD
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Loss of confidence
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Low self-esteem
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Managing phobia (Emetophobia)
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Managing stress
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OCD
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Over thinking
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Panic
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Post-traumatic stress
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Social anxiety
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Trauma
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Worry about health / germs
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Engaging in therapy takes commitment, courage and the willingness to make changes. If you are motivated to do this, I can work with you to understand your difficulties, develop coping strategies, process trauma and reduce your distress.

SUMMARY OF THERAPIES

CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Helps you to understand the unhelpful patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are causing you emotional distress and problems in your life. By learning new skills you can manage your responses, feel more stable and get on with achieving your goals.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
An effective treatment for a range of mental health difficulties that have developed as a result of traumatic or distressing experiences. It helps reprocess and leave in the past, intrusive memories, upsetting thoughts and emotions associated with the distressing experience so that we can heal and move forward.
CFT
Compassion Focussed Therapy
Helps address mental health difficulties that are linked to self-criticism, shame and guilt. It incorporates aspects of CBT, Mindfulness and evolutionary developmental and social psychology. It focuses on the development of self-compassion and our 'soothing system' in order to reduce feelings of shame, guilt and anxiety.
CLIENT FEEDBACK
My therapy sessions with Romina have been incredible. I instantly felt at ease during my first session. Romina created a very safe space to open up in. She has provided me with solid techniques that I will continue to use in life.
I will be forever grateful for the help and support Romina gave me during our sessions and cannot recommend her enough. Thanks so much once again.
When I finally agreed to get help with my OCD, I was still very hesitant and whilst I knew I needed help I was very skeptical that anyone would be able to help me, especially during the pandemic.
With any form of therapy, you need a therapist that you can trust and open up to. My first consultation with Romina changed my skeptical perspective, and I immediately knew that I would be able to trust and open up to her.

All I can say is that the change I feel within myself, and the changes my family see in me is all testimate to Romina. EMDR is an amazing tool in her arsenal, and that combined with her lovely manner, and ability to get me to open up and make changes have reduced my OCD and anxieties to a manageable level despite the ongoing pandemic.
From start to finish Romina has been fantastic and quite honestly life changing for me. We started with CBT and some EDMR, I was scared at first, but as soon as we began, I realised there was nothing to be worried about. I was able to be completely honest, vulnerable and always felt safe within our sessions. I've learnt so much, not only about myself, but how to help anxiety and cope with other things throughout the rest of my life. From our very first session, I already was seeing positive changes in myself, I really couldn't believe it. My only regret would be not picking up the phone sooner and making my first appointment.
I cannot recommend Romina highly enough. In my time working with her, I have achieved more self growth than I ever could have imagined. Romina always provided me a safe and trusting relationship, sound advice, and excellent tools and skills which both supported and pushed me.
While I'm sure I'm not completely cured, I have learnt from Romina that healing is not a constant. And in leaving her, Romina has ensured that I can feel more than capable than ever to take on whatever life throws at me next. I am very sad to leave her, but her help will last with me my entire life time. And I'm certain she'll go on now to benefit someone else in the same way.
My therapy with Romina has changed my life. I am no longer anxious, which feels amazing. I have been anxious all my life and never thought I would be free from the holds of anxiety.
Romina teaches you to be your own therapist, which gives you confidence and freedom. Romina is very understanding and caring, allowing you to open up. Romina always ensured that you were happy with the session and the plan.
I had both cognitive behavioural therapy and eye movement desensitisation therapy which were brilliant. I really recommend Romina as a therapist.
After a couple of traumatic life events and feeling the need to talk to someone, I was recommended to Romina by a friend. From the outset, Romina was kind, professional and immediately put me at my ease. The online nature of the sessions suited me, as I have a puppy and I could be comfortable at home with him during sessions. In addition, I found the EMDR part of the therapy extremely powerful and Romina's management of these sessions was excellent. I never came away from time with Romina without feeling better able to cope and somewhat lighter within myself. I can highly recommend Romina as being someone who helped me immensely during a very dark period in my life and I am so grateful to have found her. Should I need further help in the future, I would not hesitate in getting back in touch.
During the period of lockdown I suffered terribly with OCD and a number of issues surrounding it. Since then, I recently made contact with Romina who provided me with structured and sensitive therapy delivered in a relaxed and humanistic way. She was able to furnish me with a new set of tools which would allow me to rationalise what was happening to me, whilst at the same time take events, feelings, and emotions, and pick them apart in a logical and positive manner.
My therapy with Romina has undoubtedly changed my life for the better and I am beginning to thrive, not just survive.
Working with Romina was a priceless experience for me. We firstly dealt with my depression and different ways I could process my emotions and different triggering situations. We focused on systems to help me better navigate my life along with mindfulness practices which help to keep me centred and greatly reduce my anxiety levels.
During the process we discovered that actually a lot of the confusion and frustration in life stems from me having ADHD which I had never considered. I have now been diagnosed and understanding the ADHD way of thinking makes it feel much more comfortable to be ME.
I would highly recommend Romina's services.
Romina is a brilliant therapist. I came to her really struggling with anxiety, low mood and low self-esteem following various challenges as a teenager and in more recent years. I found the balance of talking therapy and EMDR in my sessions perfect and Romina is such an empathetic and motivating therapist. Our work together has really changed my life and I feel so grateful to be back to my old self, but a happier and stronger version. Thank you!


