About

Welcome to Sacred Consciousness! A healing platform created by Dr Federica Graziano, a clinical Psychologist and IFS therapist.

Federica offers a holistic approach to the understanding and healing of developmental and complex trauma and its long-lasting effects.

Past adverse events and relational experiences that have caused hurt, can hugely impact our capacity to stay grounded, connected and true to our core essence, values, goals and to one another. The consequences of Childhood Adverse Events and relational experiences can be experienced in adulthood as a constant, underlying fear of failure, hyper-vigilance and anxiety, sense of guilt, shame, sadness and grief, feeling disconnected from Self and others, feeling rejected or not good enough, addiction to substances and behaviours etc. These experiences can deeply affect our ability to step into our full potential and personal power to live an authentic and fulfilling life. 

Federica helps people safely track back, explore and witness with compassion all their different emotional experiences and perspectives and the context in which they developed. We help people expand their sense of self-awareness and self-connectedness, by getting to know all the different parts of themselves, together with cultural, ancestral and collective energies that we all carry within, which affect our sense of identity, the perception of the ‘problem’ and how it ‘should be fixed’.

Federica helps people connect to their inner wisdom and safely release from the mind, body and energy field what no longer serves the adult Self, naturally restoring balance, wholeness and personal power.

Federica believes in the importance of working with mind, body and spirit/energy in psychotherapy. She brings together the understanding of the somatic code of trauma-related conditions that is written and stored in our body and nervous system. I value the understanding of people in the context of cultural, ancestral and collective systems, which affect their personal experience, the perception of the problem and of how it ‘should be fixed’.

The main tool and focus in Federica’s therapeutic work is awareness or consciousness, in its ordinary and non-ordinary states, the inner wisdom we all carry within, our connection to the invisible and the Sacred, our ability to notice with clarity and heart-warming compassion and to liberate ourselves from all constrictions, unlocking our inner capacity to heal.

Federica’s main therapeutic modality is Internal Family Systems, a psycho-spiritual model created by Dr R Schwartz) that brings attention and absolute respect to all human experiences, physical, mental, energetic and spiritual, transcending all diagnostic labels and going back to the person, their stories of life, their humanity and inner wisdom.

Federica also values experiences of non-ordinary states of consciousness – that can be induced by meditation, breath-work, prayer and mantras, movement, shamanic journeys and rituals – as a powerful tool for transformation and she facilitate access to these transformative experiences, in synergy with talking therapy.

I believe in cultural change and the importance of safe relational spaces for the healing of personal and collective trauma that is associated to cultural and collective burdens like individualism, racism, patriarchy, materialism. For this reason, I am passionate about facilitating IFS therapy groups and workshops on the topic.

When not serving other people, Federica can be found in nature, meditating, playing music, learning, dancing and sensing…She is often in Brazil where she learns from plant medicine and indigenous people on the use of shamanic practices and rituals to support the healing of mind, body and soul.

Qualifications and Experience: Federica qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in Italy and then in the UK. She specialised in several therapeutic approaches (e.g. CBT, ACT, CFT, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems Therapy). She has 11 years of experience working in the field of physical and psychological trauma within different settings and cultural landscapes. Federica has extensive experience working with children, adults, couples and families in the public sector and in private practice.

Federica also has knowledge and experience in the field of neuropsychology (she worked extensively with people with neurological conditions, traumatic brain injury, stroke and chronic physical health conditions).

She also worked in CAMHS, supporting children and adolescents with their emotional struggles and with their neuro-diversity (ASD and/or ADHD). Having a neurodiversity herself has enabled Federica to find various ways of supporting neurodivergent people living in a neurotypical world.

Federica now works in private practice and offers online therapy in English, Italian and Portuguese.