“It is a serious thing/
just to be alive
on this fresh morning/
in this broken world.”
Mary Oliver
Evidence-based trauma-informed pychotherapy for adults in Bologna and online, with a focus on positive mental health, life transitions, and the psychological challenges of uncertainty in a changing world.
Psychotherapy · Climate & Nature · Talks & Workshops
Welcome- I'm glad you're here. My name is Lucia Tecuta, and I'm an American and Italian bilingual licensed clinical psychologist based in Bologna. I support individuals navigating life’s challenges, including anxiety, depression, painful life events, and life transitions including adjusting to new environments and challenges.
I also support individuals facing broader world-related distress tied to global events, climate disruptions and ecological losses and uncertainties about the future.
Whether you're struggling with painful thoughts, feeling stuck, or simply wanting to deepen your sense of well-being and connection, my approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based therapies.
What I offer
Psychology for people and a changing world
My work brings together clinical psychology, evidence-based psychotherapy, and a growing understanding of how our relationships, communities, and environments shape psychological well-being.
Alongside psychotherapy, I work in ecopsychology and climate psychology, exploring how people respond to climate change, ecological loss, and uncertainty, and how to foster connection with the natural world, resilience, and a renewed sense of meaning, both individually and collectively.
Individual Psychotherapy
My overall approach is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an evidence-based approach that has been extensively researched. I also offer trauma-informed therapy and am specialized in EMDR (Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing).
I am a practitioner of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and draw on different cognitive behavioural approaches, adapting them to each person’s needs, goals and life experiences. Therapy can help develop greater awareness of how we think and respond, recognize and question beliefs that may contribute to distress, and develop more flexible and helpful ways of thinking.
The aim is not to eliminate difficult emotions, but to learn to understand and make room for them, developing a more balanced relationship with ourselves and with what we experience, while fostering unconditional self-acceptance.
I also specialize in psychological responses to climate change, ecological distress and our relationship with nature.
Looking for Psychotherapy?
→Cognitive-behavioral therapy
→Trauma-informed and EMDR therapy
Climate and Nature
I’m interested in helping individuals, communities and groups cultivate connection to all parts of nature, whether it be a part of themselves, their surrounding environments, other human beings and the greater web of life we are embedded in. In doing so, we understanding how (dis)connection from the natural world affects us, and how we respond to the drastic climatic and ecological changes unfolding around us. How can psychology help us navigate uncertainty, loss, connection, and hope, while supporting meaningful and conscious action?
I collaborate with local and international organizations to advance climate psychology and ecopsychology, and to bring these perspectives into clinical practice, education and public conversations in Italy and across Europe.
I am an active member of the following associations and organizations working on understanding the relationships between psychology and nature, CBT and climate distress, and comunicating about climate distress to a wider audience:
The Charter of Psychologists of Emilia-Romagna,
I offer walk and talk ecotherapy and nature connection workshops to foster nature connection and therapy for climate distress.
Looking for climate aware therapy or therapy in nature?
Find out more:
Talks, Workshops, and Media
After having conducted scientific research on nature connection, the intersection of mental health and climate change, including eco-emotions like eco-anxiety:
I offer:
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Talks and workshops to the wider public in collaboration with organizations, associations, schools, festivals
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Trainings for mental health professionals in ecopsychology and climate psychology, past collaborations include Giunti, PsySimple, Studi Cognitivi.
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Interviews and written commentary, having been featured in Vanity Fair, La Repubblica, Psyche Magazine, Radio Popolare, Climalteranti.
I am available for journalistic interviews, expert commentary, public talks, workshops, podcasts and collaborations on topics related to ecopsychology and ecotherapy, climate psychology and mental health.
Looking for a speaker, expert commentary or trainer? Find out more:
→ Talks, workshops, training events
→Interviews, podcasts, and articles