Dr GabrielE Cammarata

Clinical Psychologist and Schema Therapist

Dr Gabriele Cammarata

Online Schema Therapy and CBT for Anxiety, OCD, Trauma and Relationship Patterns

Pronouns: He/Him

✓ HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist
✓ Chartered Psychologist
✓ Accredited Schema Therapist
✓ BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
✓ Over 15 years’ clinical experience
✓ Over 10 years’ experience providing online therapy
✓ Therapy available in English and Italian
✓ Works with adults, children, teenagers, couples and families

About Dr Gabriele Cammarata

Dr Gabriele Cammarata is an experienced Clinical and Health Psychologist, Chartered Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with more than 15 years’ experience across the NHS, private practice, universities and international humanitarian settings.

He specialises in Schema Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), helping people understand and change deep-rooted emotional patterns that may be contributing to anxiety, OCD, trauma responses, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties or repeated unhelpful behaviours.

Schema Therapy can be particularly helpful when difficulties feel long-standing, keep returning or appear connected to unmet emotional needs and earlier life experiences. Gabriele works collaboratively with clients to identify recurring schemas and coping patterns, understand where they developed and build healthier ways of responding.

Alongside Schema Therapy and CBT, Gabriele draws on psychodynamic psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, Compassion Focused Therapy and other evidence-based approaches. His broad training allows him to tailor therapy to the needs, background and goals of each individual.

Gabriele has worked within NHS primary and secondary care services and British universities. He also has specialist expertise in health psychology and ethno-cultural and cross-cultural psychology, which he teaches at postgraduate level at the University of Padua in Italy.

He provides therapy in both English and Italian and has extensive experience supporting people from different cultural backgrounds. His approach is warm, compassionate, thoughtful and non-judgemental, while also helping clients challenge patterns that may be keeping them stuck.

How Schema Therapy Can Help

Schema Therapy explores deeply held beliefs and emotional patterns that often begin in childhood or develop through significant life experiences. These patterns can influence how you see yourself, relate to other people and respond to difficult situations.

Gabriele may use Schema Therapy to help with:

• Repeated relationship difficulties

• Fears of rejection or abandonment

• Persistent low self-esteem

• Strong self-criticism or perfectionism

• Difficulties regulating emotions

• Unhelpful coping behaviours

• Long-standing anxiety or depression

• Childhood trauma and unmet emotional needs

• Personality-related difficulties

• Problems that have not fully responded to previous therapy

Therapy helps you recognise these patterns, understand the needs beneath them and develop more balanced and compassionate ways of responding.

What Gabriele Can Help With

Anxiety, OCD and Related Difficulties

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder

• Health anxiety

• Social anxiety

• Panic attacks and agoraphobia

• Phobias, including emetophobia

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Body Dysmorphic Disorder

• Perfectionism

• Hoarding

• Hair pulling and skin picking

Trauma and Deep-Rooted Emotional Patterns

• Childhood trauma

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Complex PTSD

• Fears of abandonment

• Emotional regulation difficulties

• Self-harm

• Persistent low self-esteem

• Personality-related difficulties

• Long-standing or recurring emotional problems

Relationships, Couples and Families

• Attachment and relationship difficulties

• Communication problems

• Codependency

• Relationship anxiety and doubt

• Intimacy and sexual difficulties

• Infidelity and betrayal

• Separation and divorce

• Parenting difficulties

• Family conflict

• Adoption and blended-family difficulties

Depression, Stress and Life Changes

• Depression and low mood

• Anger

• Bereavement and loss

• Work-related stress

• Workplace bullying

• Redundancy

• Sleep difficulties

• Major life transitions

• Pregnancy, birth and perinatal mental health

• Infertility and miscarriage

Health and Neurodivergence

• ADHD

• Autism

• Living with cancer or Parkinson’s disease

• Chronic pain

• Chronic fatigue

• Body image and eating difficulties

• Tinnitus

• The psychological effects of acute or long-term health conditions

Embark on a Therapeutic, Critical and Transformative Journey

I am a qualified and HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists and Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience within the NHS and in private practice with over 10 years of online therapy expertise and humanitarian work around the globe with major NGOs. Moreover, I am specialized in health psychology and in ethno/cross cultural psychology and clinical psychology which I teach at the University of Padua in Italy.

Working with me means embarking in a journey with an experienced and compassionate Qualified Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist offering a choice between traditional Psychodynamic brief and long-term Psychotherapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) as well as therapeutic methods based on critical approaches such as Liberation Psychologist and Radical Psychotherapy.

With over 15 years of experience in mental health, I provide a warm, empathetic, and non-judgmental space to help you navigate challenges and foster personal growth. As I trained in several forms of therapy I enjoy working creatively with clients to tailor individualized evidence-based interventions that meet their needs. Therefore, my sessions are designed to your unique needs, drawing from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural therapy, radical and critical psychology, schema, mindfulness, ACT and Clinical Psychology skills and knowledge.

My online 60-minute sessions are designed to provide both flexibility and accessibility to suit best your needs and schedule.

Your first session is an opportunity to get to know each other, explore your goals, and understand the challenges that brought you to therapy. We’ll discuss your needs, past experiences with mental health, and any specific concerns, creating a personalized approach to support your well-being.

I work with adults, young people, teens, families and couples offering therapeutic support, parental guidance, clinical supervision, and psychoeducation. Together, we’ll explore your story, uncover insights, and create meaningful and lasting change.

Therapeutic Approaches

Gabriele works integratively, combining different psychological approaches according to each client’s needs, history and therapy goals.

His approaches include:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

• Schema Therapy

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

• Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy-informed approaches

• Mindfulness

• Interpersonal Therapy

• Couples Therapy

• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

• Systemic Family Therapy

• Critical and Liberation Psychology

Clients Gabriele can work with

• Children (Under 10 Years)

• Adolescents (10 - 18 Years)

• Adults (19-65 Years)

• Elderly (65+ Years)

Gabriele’s Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist – PYL27687

• Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society – 237900

• BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

• Accredited Schema Therapist with the Italian Schema Therapy Register

• Clinical and Health Psychologist

• Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

• Specialist experience in health psychology

• Specialist expertise in ethno-cultural and cross-cultural psychology

• Postgraduate teaching in Ethnopsychology at the University of Padua

• Over 15 years’ clinical experience

• Over 10 years’ experience providing online psychological therapy

• Experience across the NHS, private practice, universities and international humanitarian settings

Client Testimonials

Gabriele consistently receives 5-star end-of-treatment feedback, reflecting the warmth, insight and clinical skill he brings to helping clients overcome anxiety, OCD, tics and emotional distress.

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Helping Young People Break the Cycle of Anxiety, Tics and Emotional Distress

We first spoke to Gabriele in February this year after having concerns that our 9 year old daughter's tics had become debilitating for her. They exacerbated her anxiety, made her angry and this in turn made the tics worse. We needed to break the cycle.

We found him to be professional, thorough, approachable, engaging and empathetic.

Within a few minutes of the first session speaking with her she was calmer and he identified several ways she could take control of the situation rather than it controlling her.

She felt comfortable engaging with him online and started to reap the benefits of the sessions pretty much immediately.

Over the next few weeks we saw a dramatic fall in the number, severity and frequency of the tics and angry outbursts.

Moreover she now had an understanding, as did we, of ways she could help herself in challenging situations to regain control.

I'm very glad you recommended him to us!” Marion (Mum of a 9 year old who had anxiety and debilitating tics).

 

He managed to resolve my main OCD theme — which was life-changing.

“I would recommend him (Gabriele) for the way he make you feel and I need to recognise that he managed to sort out my main OCD theme which is really powerful. Thank you Gabriele” Lucian

I felt comfortable with him from minute one

“Gabriele is a pleasure to work with. He is patient, intellectually challenging and gentle when probing difficult content. I felt comfortable with his approach from minute 1 and we made quick progress to helping my underlying condition.” Dunc

He was incredibly easy to open up to and communicate with.”

“I thought Gabriel was an excellent therapist. He was very easy to open up to and communicate with. He was very intuitive and I felt that he was able to explore a number of areas which I did not consider important.” DO

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