Umberto Crisanti

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) and Supervisor. EMDR Therapist & Cognitive Constructive Counsellor.

Umberto is a very warm-hearted, compassionate and experienced online clinician, with 20 years’ experience working within a wide variety of clinical settings.

He qualified as a Psychologist in 2004 in Italy, and then trained for a further 4 years and qualified as a Cognitive Constructivist Psychotherapist. Cognitive Constructive Therapy is a non-blaming approach to counselling, based on the attachment theory, which aims to help clients to develop a conceptual reframing that permits a new course of action. He then moved to the UK and trained to become accredited as a BABCP CBT Therapist.

Umberto trained and has practiced for over 10 years working with an NHS Trust where he offered CBT to adults with a wide range of emotional, cognitive behavioural and adjustments problems such as anxiety, stress, depression and relationship problems. As part of his NHS therapeutic work, he qualified and received the status of BABCP CBT Supervisor which led him to provide guidance to over 50 clinicians on suicide risk screening, in addition to their personal and professional development as well are their reflective practice.

Since 2019, Umberto actively collaborates as Invited Speaker with USERN (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network) with the main purpose of promoting peaceful and humanitarian education and research, universally. He has recently been rewarded by Springer Nature with the publication of the chapter:

Can the Phylogeny of Compassion Focused Therapy and the Ontogeny of Transactional Analysis Go Beyond Dual-Process Theories and Propose Multiple Modes of Thinking? https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15959-6_19

Leaving the NHS, Umberto has developed his private practice based in Canterbury, Kent. He has specialist expertise in effectively treating PTSD, Trauma, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addictions. 

Umberto is highly experienced in all evidence-based practices for treating people with a wide range of disorders including:

  • Addictions - Substance

  • Addictions - Pornography / Sex

  • Addictions - Gaming / Gambling / Other

  • Anger

  • Anxiety - Stress

  • Anxiety - Agoraphobia

  • Anxiety - Generalised (GAD)

  • Anxiety - Health

  • Panic / Panic Attacks

  • Anxiety - Performance

  • Anxiety - Separation

  • Anxiety - Fears of abandonment

  • Anxiety - Social

  • Anxiety - Phobias

  • Emetophobia (Specific Fear of Vomit)

  • Chronic Fatigue / ME

  • Dementia

  • Depression - Low Mood

  • Depression - Major

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Family Issues - Conflict

  • Low Self-Esteem

  • Parenting Issues

  • Health conditions - Acute / Long Term

  • Relationship - Attachment issues

  • Relationship - Codependency

  • Relationship - Communication difficulties

  • Relationship - Doubt in relationship

  • Relationship - Infidelity, affairs & betrayals

  • Skin/Hair picking (tricotillomania / dermatillomania)

  • Sleep - Problems

  • Sleep - Insomnia

  • Tinnitus

  • Trauma - Childhood Trauma

  • Trauma - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Trauma - Complex PTSD

  • Trauma - COVID-19 based PTSD

  • Trauma - Road Traffic Accidents

  • Type 2 diabetes

  • Work - Stress

Specialist services & expertise

Umberto has trained in Long Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms at the University of Christ Church and he has successfully reversed his own type 2 diabetes and has successfully addressed his experience of tinnitus. He now offers single consultations or continued support for both these as well as other conditions, providing guidance and enhancing both physical and mental health arising from problematic symptoms.

He has been a lifetime martial art enthusiast and avid trainer, practising Japanese Jiu-jitsu, Tai Chi and Muay Thai. He also enjoys playing football on an amateur level and can provide therapy to athletes who struggle with trauma, performance anxiety and depression.

Umberto works calmly and kindly with authenticity and integrity. He can be with you for a short intervention, or for long term therapy to examine where you are in your life, to bring the unconscious to the surface and to understand your deep-rooted feelings. Umberto aims for his clients to find wholeness and meaning, and for them to feel empowered to be able to leave therapy as soon as possible and continue their journey on their own. 

Models & Methods Umberto is trained to use in his online practice

  • BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Supervisor (CBT)

  • Cognitive Constructive Psychotherapist

  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

  • Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • LTC certificate (Long term conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms)

  • Mindfulness

  • Person-centred therapy

  • Integrative Therapy

  • Interpersonal therapy

  • Psychodynamic therapy

  • Transactional Analysis

  • Schema

Reviews about therapy with from Umberto

"I have never had any kind of therapy before. I have found this process incredibly helpful and supportive. I feel I have been guided skilfully on a path to help me address the areas that have been causing me stress."

"When I first was referred I didn't want to come, it took a lot of f***ing persuading. After the third session, I realised you were a nice counsellor and a human being. Some of the advice was helpful and I feel more in control and able to put my foot down with X. I have learned that I've got the right to say no and it is okay to ask for help. All the coping mechanisms seem to be working".

"It's great that I can talk and you don't tell me how to solve problems but you give me hints. I felt safe and never judged."

"It's been amazing, it has made so much sense. It's practical but you need to understand what it is about, and then you understand what's going on"

"It was a great safe space to openly talk about how I was feeling and even sometimes when I didn't really know how I was feeling and I went in a bit of a spiral of words, somehow my ramblings made sense to you. I really liked how it was a great way to get an understanding of myself whereas before I thought therapy was a place where the therapist sits there and tells you about yourself. I am happy I was in control of the process of getting those self insights"

"I feel it has really benefitted me and it has given me tools to work with in the future. I have skills and strategies that I can use to prevent me from becoming overwhelmed"

"You have listened to me, and you have not prompted me. This has made me feel comfortable has enabled me to feel better and recover. And this helped me to make me understand how I really feel. And I thank you for that. "

"It's been really helpful. It has stopped my worry and I thought I wouldn't have been able to stop it, but I can now. I learned a lot.

Clients Umberto works with.

  • Adults (19-65 Years)

  • Elderly (65+ Years)

 

Umberto’s training, credentials & professional memberships.

  • Accreditation as Psychotherapist and Supervisor with the BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies) - 120830

  • EMDR Standard EMDR training as defined by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) with some additional protocols included in Part 3.

  • Member of EMDR Association UK.

  • LTC certificate (Long term conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms)

  • EACLIPT membership (European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment)

  • MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) 8-Week Program Qualified High Intensity Therapist in CBT

  • Diploma in Cognitive Constructivist Counselling Psychotherapy

  • MSc in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, University of Palermo


 

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