“For me, mental health means understanding and navigating your emotions¨
I am Alessandro Massa, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. I believe interpersonal relationships – even therapeutic ones – need human warmth and emotion, and that’s why I’d like to tell you about myself.
Born in 1981 in the Province of Turin in Italy, I have always been fascinated by how the human mind and body work. I studied medicine and surgery at the University of Turin, then went on to obtain a Swiss Medical Association postgraduate degree in psychiatry et psychotherapy in Geneva, Switzerland.
Early on in my studies, I came to realise that our mental health is just as important as our physical health.
I’ve been fortunate enough to come into contact with the quality of Swiss psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care. Here, the stereotype of psychiatric treatment being for the insane is less prevalent. Everyone should be able to receive help at difficult times in life.
Bereavement, loss of work, dismissal, and the Covid-19 lockdown – to name but a few examples – cause significant and long-lasting mental damage.
I have worked at Fribourg Hospital (HFR) and for several years I worked at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), in the addiction and dependency psychiatry department, the intensive psychotherapy unit, the emergency psychiatric unit, the geriatric psychiatry department and the legal psychiatry department. I managed the outpatient day hospital programme of the HUG adult psychiatry department.
I now have a private practice and work in collaboration with associations of somatic medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy.
I would like to help people improve their mood, manage their anxiety, rebalance their interpersonal relationships and free themselves of different kinds of addiction – basically, to be happier and calmer.
For me, mental health means understanding and navigating your emotions.
At painful moments in life, it is important to know that we are not alone, human contact is fundamental, and we have the resources within us and probably just need someone to help us understand and use them. I’d like to be that person for you.
I believe the person in difficulty must be at the centre of the treatment, and it is crucial to understand, console and support them.
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am Alessandro Massa, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. I believe interpersonal relationships – even therapeutic ones – need human warmth and emotion, and that’s why I’d like to tell you about myself.
Born in 1981 in the Province of Turin in Italy, I have always been fascinated by how the human mind and body work. I studied medicine and surgery at the University of Turin, then went on to obtain a Swiss Medical Association postgraduate degree in psychiatry et psychotherapy in Geneva, Switzerland.
Early on in my studies, I came to realise that our mental health is just as important as our physical health.
I’ve been fortunate enough to come into contact with the quality of Swiss psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care. Here, the stereotype of psychiatric treatment being for the insane is less prevalent. Everyone should be able to receive help at difficult times in life.
Bereavement, loss of work, dismissal, and the Covid-19 lockdown – to name but a few examples – cause significant and long-lasting mental damage.
I have worked at Fribourg Hospital (HFR) and for several years I worked at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), in the addiction and dependency psychiatry department, the intensive psychotherapy unit, the emergency psychiatric unit, the geriatric psychiatry department and the legal psychiatry department. I managed the outpatient day hospital programme of the HUG adult psychiatry department.
I now have a private practice and work in collaboration with associations of somatic medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy.
I would like to help people improve their mood, manage their anxiety, rebalance their interpersonal relationships and free themselves of different kinds of addiction – basically, to be happier and calmer.
For me, mental health means understanding and navigating your emotions.
At painful moments in life, it is important to know that we are not alone, human contact is fundamental, and we have the resources within us and probably just need someone to help us understand and use them. I’d like to be that person for you.
I believe the person in difficulty must be at the centre of the treatment, and it is crucial to understand, console and support them.
