“Psychophysiological assessment adds so much information to any clinical assessment, providing the opportunity to look at and quantify a patient’s baseline values and psychophysiological reactions to different stressful situations, in a way that would be otherwise impossible. Biofeedback is beneficial to me as a clinician because it allows me to show what happens inside the patient’s body to help them learn how to better regulate their responses. Biofeedback supports all the work I do with patients from a CBT approach and learning to auto regulate the autonomic nervous system is key to any other change.”
“Additionally, patients learn quickly how to de-activate and can then use the acquired skills in their daily life, reducing symptoms related to previous autonomic dysregulation and thereby increasing their well-being.”
Carlotta Bonfà is a Clinical Psychologist since 2012 and a Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist since 2016.
As a part of her training, she has worked in several hospitals and national health centers. In collaboration with the University of Padua, she has taken part in a research project that investigated the effects of biofeedback training in patients after cardiac surgery.
She now works as a private practitioner in Padua (Italy), where she treats different psychological disorders/conditions, paying a special attention to psychophysiology. Her clinical interest focuses on the treatment of anxiety and somatisation, addiction, stress management and health psychology. She has been certified in Biofeedback by the BFE and uses biofeedback in her practice.
Carlotta is the Education and Program Manager for the Biofeedback Federation of Europe (BFE). She has been the Course Coordinator and a reference for BFE Italia’s customers, Instructors and Centers of Excellence for the past 8 years. In addition to online education, she has also organized regional seminars and workshops in biofeedback. She has been a member of the program committee for the last several BFE Meetings and was responsible for overseeing the onsite logistics for the BFE 20th Meeting in Cardiff (2019).