I met coaching as a client, long before I became a coach.
Sociologist, aid worker, coach since 2017, writer. The road that brought me here.
My story
At the start
Sociologist
I trained as a sociologist, and that way of seeing has never left me: you understand people within the groups, places and relationships they live in.
For more than twenty years
International cooperation
I worked in international cooperation, planning, monitoring and evaluating projects. I learned to work in difficult contexts and across different cultures, always asking myself whether what we were doing was really bringing about change.
2016
South Sudan
On a mission in South Sudan I was subjected to sexual violence and torture. That was also where my commitment as an activist began, standing alongside women and people who have experienced violence.
I accompany, I don’t steer: I take a person by the hand, and along the way I learn too.
Afterwards
Coaching, as a client
Coaching came into my life after the trauma, alongside psychotherapy, when I couldn’t move. It helped me recognise the resources I still had inside me and turn them into concrete acts.
Since 2017
The choice
I decided to train and make this my work, so I could give others what I had been given. Today I’m ICF certified, trained with the Co-Active and ORSC schools, specialised in Positive Intelligence, a certified eCoach and a Mental Health First Aider.
Today
L'Aquila, and everywhere
I live and work in L'Aquila and online. I support people in burnout or looking for a new direction, work with public bodies, companies and NGOs, and bring conversations about consent, boundaries, stereotypes and violence into schools and training.
“What training do you have?”
It takes more than saying “coach”.
There’s a real difference between an eight-hour course and an international certification. These are mine, and what each one actually involves.
ICF ACCInternational Coaching FederationAssociate Certified Coach: accredited training, documented coaching hours, an exam and periodic renewal. I’m working towards PCC.
Co-Active®Coaches Training InstituteThe international school my way of working is built on, with individuals and with groups.
ORSC™CRR Global · in progressOrganization & Relationship Systems Coaching: relationship and systems coaching, which looks at a team, a couple or an organisation as a single system. The certification is being completed; I already use the method in my work.
PQ®Positive IntelligenceCertified specialisation in inner saboteurs: recognising them, turning down their volume, making room for your own inner sage.
eCoachUNLOQ · Level ICertification in online and blended coaching, including written coaching: part or all of the journey takes place in writing. Listed in the International eCoach & eCounselor Register.
MHFA®Mental Health First AidMental health first aid: what to do and what to say beside someone who has just been through a trauma.
“Do you write too?”
Yes, books.
Writing is another way to take the conversation outside the coaching room: about consent, boundaries, violence, and how you start again.
The new book
Confini chiari, cuori leggeri
A book (in Italian) about consent, illustrated by Domitilla Marzuoli. Out on 10 October 2026.
About the book“What now?”
Now it’s your turn.
Book a first conversation, or drop me a couple of lines.