Dario De Gaetanis , NCPS

Dario De Gaetanis is a mindfulness-focused counsellor with 14 years of professional experience and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology. He is a licensed counsellor in both the United Kingdom and Italy and holds the NCPS credential, a recognised professional counselling qualification. In addition to his clinical work, he supports children as an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) in a primary school, bringing practical educational experience into his therapeutic practice.

Mindfulness sits at the heart of Dario's approach. He is an experienced practitioner of Buddhist Dharma and Vipassana meditation and integrates those contemplative practices with Western psychological models. His work draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Gestalt, Psychosynthesis and psychodynamic ideas to create an integrative, person-centered method that honours both lived experience and therapeutic technique.

Dario combines talking therapies with somatic resources and body-based awareness practices to help clients access deeper self-regulation and healing. His approach aims to increase emotional regulation, reduce symptoms such as anxiety and depression, improve focus and self-awareness, and strengthen coping skills. He offers a supportive environment where feelings and thoughts can be explored, inner resources discovered, and a process of gradual mental and physical wellbeing encouraged.

Dario works with individuals across a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship and family concerns, grief, addiction, ADHD and life transitions, and he supports both local and international clients in their journey toward greater resilience and self-understanding.