Ettore Brocca
Psychologist
Licensed psychologist, philosopher, and somatic practitioner. I help professionals move through burnout, career transitions, and existential turning points — online, in English or Italian.
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About me
Some transitions don't just change your job — they change who you are. I work with professionals at exactly that crossroads: where burnout, career shifts, and existential questions demand more than a practical fix.
Not because I studied this from the outside. I spent over a decade as a senior manager in consulting — working with Eni, Pirelli, Allianz, Generali, Barilla. I know what it means to function well on paper while something doesn't add up inside. I was one of them.
I also trained for years in body-centered practices — bioenergetic counseling and somatic work. So when I say the body holds what the mind can't yet articulate, I mean it literally, not as a metaphor.
What changes when we work together? Not that the situation resolves itself. But that you begin to see it differently — and move through it differently. The goal isn't to feel better quickly. It's to understand what's actually happening and find a way forward that makes sense for who you are.
One important clarification: I am a licensed psychologist, not a psychotherapist. My work is psychological support and counseling — a distinct type of work, appropriate for what most of my clients are navigating. If psychotherapy for a diagnosed condition is what's needed, I'll tell you, and we can discuss a referral.
Sessions are online, in Italian or English. Free 20-minute intro call — no commitment, not a clinical evaluation, just a conversation to see if working together makes sense.
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Approach
My practice integrates three dimensions — clinical, philosophical, and somatic.
The clinical foundation: I observe patterns, use psychological assessment tools when appropriate, and draw on organizational and work psychology frameworks. I don't ignore what's measurable.
The philosophical lens: trained in phenomenology at the University of Milan (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre), I use philosophy not as abstraction but as a practical tool for understanding identity, meaning, and change. This is where "philosopher" in my profile becomes concrete: it's a way of listening, not a set of theories.
The somatic dimension: I trained in bioenergetic counseling at the Istituto di Psicologia Somatorelazionale in Milan. The body is not secondary — it often holds the most accurate information about what's actually going on. Note: somatic work here is not coaching; it's body-centered psychological support integrated into the session.
A process with me doesn't follow a script. Each path is built around the person — what they're carrying, how they think, and what they're actually trying to understand.
Experience
Before becoming a psychologist, I spent over a decade as a senior manager in management consulting. That world gave me direct knowledge of what high-functioning burnout looks like from the inside — and what it costs.
Alongside corporate work, I trained for years with an international theatre company. I worked with that company in Poland, Italy, Spain, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.
That work gave me a precise understanding of presence, embodiment, and what it means to act from one's center rather than from fear or habit. It shaped how I listen and how I work somatically with clients today.
The combination — corporate, philosophical, theatrical, psychological — is what makes my practice unusual. I don't offer a single method. I offer a way of paying attention.
Education
The question that runs through all of it: what does it take — really — for something to shift in a person?
I began with Philosophy (BA & MA, University of Milan), studying phenomenology and existential thought — learning to sit with ambiguity, read the invisible structure beneath behavior, and take inner life seriously as data.
That foundation led me to Training & Human Resources Development (Master's, University of Milan-Bicocca), where I translated philosophical inquiry into organizational practice: how adults learn, what blocks transformation, what actually shifts when given the right conditions.
I then deepened the applied dimension through a Master's in Work & Organizational Psychology, grounding my work in evidence-based frameworks for stress, leadership, career development, and psychological assessment.
The body came last — and changed everything. Between 2021 and 2023, I completed specialized training in Bioenergetic Counseling at the Istituto di Psicologia Somatorelazionale in Milan: two years learning that sustainable change doesn't happen only in the mind.
I hold full professional registration as a Licensed Psychologist with the Lombardy Board of Psychologists — the ethical and legal foundation from which all my work operates.
Services
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