Arianna Pipicelli
Gestalt Psychotherapist, Functional Medicine and Nutrigenetic Pratictioner
I am a passionate psychotherapist, supervisor, and functional medicine and nutrigenomics practitioner. With a strong foundation in Gestalt psychotherapy and a growing expertise in functional medicine.
My Journey So Far...
My love affair with psychotherapy began more than twenty years ago at the Metanoia Institute, where I earned my Master's degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy. I later expanded my practice with a Diploma in Supervision from The Grove Practice.
Over the years I have continued to deepen my clinical knowledge across disciplines that speak to the inseparability of mind and body. Most recently, I completed the foundational module in Functional Medicine with the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Nutrigenomic Practitioner Programme with Lifecode Gx — working now at the intersection of mental health, personalised medicine, and genetic individuality.
What Drives Me
As a UKCP-registered therapist, I'm committed to upholding the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. I believe that every individual deserves a safe, non-judgmental space to explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. My approach is rooted in empathy, curiosity, and a deep respect for the human condition.
My Philosophy
I firmly believe that our relationships with ourselves and others hold the key to healing and growth. By tuning into our emotions, needs, and desires, we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The therapeutic bond between client and therapist is, in my opinion, the most crucial factor in successful therapy.
Functional Medicine and Nutrigenomics: A Holistic Approach
As a functional medicine practitioner, I'm interested in addressing the root causes of mental health issues and promoting optimal health and wellbeing.
Our genetic variations shape how we respond to stress, regulate mood, manage hormonal shifts, and recover from sustained psychological and physiological load. Using Lifecode Gx testing, I bring this layer of understanding into the therapeutic relationship — translating your unique genetic profile into targeted support.
I believe that by integrating functional medicine and nutrigenomics principles into my practice, I can offer a more comprehensive and effective approach to healing.
While I'm passionate about applying functional medicine and nutrigenomics to psychotherapy, I also understand that some clients may prefer a more traditional approach. That's why I'm happy to offer conventional psychotherapy sessions as well. These sessions focus on exploring your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and working through challenges and difficulties in a supportive and non-judgmental space.
Whether you're looking for a more traditional talk therapy approach or a more holistic approach, I'm here to support you. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or would like to schedule a session.
Existential Explorations
My practice is grounded in the belief that each person carries within them a wyrd that seeks to unfold. This kind of work is not about fixing or correcting, but about widening and tending — so that what is already there can emerge and find its way.
Wyrd in Old English means to become, to happen, to unfold. It is not destiny in the Greek sense of moira, a force that overwhelms you. It is rather the unfolding of what you already are — your path weaving itself as you walk it.
Over time, wyrd became weird — simply strange, bizarre. But that original strangeness was the strangeness of what belongs to a different order — something that comes from a depth the everyday does not touch.
What stands in the way of the wyrd can be psychological — beliefs, patterns, traumas, configurations calcified over time into the lens through which we interpret the world. It can be physical — biochemical imbalances, genetic variations that shape our levels of energy and the intensity and length of our emotions and sensations, our capacity to concentrate, to think and feel clearly. Often it is both.
Using psychotherapy, functional medicine, and nutrigenomics, I work across all these layers to create the conditions in which a person becomes able to recognise what they are for — and move toward it.
For some, this is enough. For others, when the ground is clearer, something deeper emerges — not as a problem, but as questions about the complexities of human existence — finitude, suffering, meaning and the weight of existing in a world already cast before we arrived in it, with its quiet insistence on what is normal and what must be corrected. But also wonder, the sudden appearance of light in the cracks.
When something in a person chafes against that inherited world, the reflex is to call it pathology. And sometimes it is. But not always. Discomfort is often the only signal we have — not evidence of being broken, but of who we are. Sometimes that is where the work begins.
Language and Availability
My sessions are available in both English and Italian. Whether you're seeking long-term or short-term therapy, supervision, or explore the connection between mind, body and the environment, I'm here to listen and guide you on your journey.
