
Patrizia Vadalà - Foundation Lead Tutor/ Diploma Tutor
Patrizia Vadalà is one of our lead tutors for the TAC Foundation in Counselling and the Diploma in Integrative Counselling. She also teaches our short course on Applied Gestalt Theory.
Patrizia is a fully qualified Gestalt Counsellor trained and accredited with the Italian Gestalt Centre in Italy and a Psycho-Pedagogic Body Movement Practitioner (a method that gives great importance to the body-somatic experience in order to achieve greater awareness), a registered member of the BACP and accredited with the CNCP, (National Council for Professional Counsellors). Patrizia runs a private practice, both in English and Italian.
Patrizia has experience in working with NHS England, charities and schools, with clients from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds, ages, ethnicities and sexual orientations and deeply believes in the impact and importance of culture and ethnicity on everyone’s wellbeing.
As a teacher, Patrizia believes in the empowerment of her students; in fostering an environment of curiosity, exploration, creativity and ultimately confidence. She believes in the embodiment of the Gestalt approach and she teaches in an experiential way in order to facilitate that process.
I found the Gestalt therapeutic model very much inline with my idea of a healthy soul. It takes a holistic approach to mental health and well being. My theory tutor Patrizia was very good in teaching this model. I found her warm and pleasant. She was also very patient and accomodating in modeling how the Gestalt model works in a therapist and client counselling session which helped bring theory and practice together.
The course tutor, Patrizia, is very knowledgeable; she has years of experience and is approachable.