ABOUT ME
Samuele is my full name. Sam is how you can call me. I use they/he pronouns.
I describe myself as a citizen of the world, learning how to walk gently on Earth.
My work brings together queer culture and ecological response-ability with a soulful perspective.
I am a registered HCPC & BADth dramatherapist. I work across Italy and the UK with marginalised communities. I offer individual and group therapy, supervision and consultancy.
In my free time I enjoy being outdoor in nature; walking, meditating and expressing myself creatively.
MY APPROACH
My approach is deeply influenced by Jungian psychology. My core training in the Sesame approach to dramatherapy is grounded in soul-making – analytical/archetypal psychological perspectives. My trainings in Authentic Movement and in supervision (Re-Vision) reflect a mythopoetic approach to Psyche. You may wonder if the process is a linear one, indeed, it is not. As Jung suggests
'the way is not straight but appears to go round in circles' (Jung, CW12, para.34)
In a world stuck in binary oppositions, the work I do aims to offer a space for you to sit at the crossroads. The oblique approach of Sesame meets queer culture both pointing at a third space which native language is the open, not-interpretative image. Taking a step back from the literalised world of everyday life and one forward into the metaphorical of stories, myths and dreams can allow expansion of vision beyond the periphery of ego culture.
THE OTHER WITHIN
'If something that seems quite mad or sinful enters your head in the future, should you feel like murdering someone or committing some enormity, remember for a moment that is Abraxas [God who is both god and devil] at work in your imagination! The person you wish to murder is never Mr So and So. He is only a disguise. When we hate someone we are hating something that is within ourselves, in his image. We are never stirred up by something which does not already exist within us.'
Demian, Hermann Hesse, 1919
