Angelo Mussoni: My story
I graduated in Psychology from the University of Padua in 1999 and started out working with multi-problem families referred by social services.
From 2001 I provided home-based educational and psychological support to families, so that children could stay at home rather than go into residential care. Out of that experience, in 2003, I co-founded AltreStrade to offer an alternative to removing children from their families. For years we also worked in the intercultural and disability fields.
In 2019 I moved into full-time private practice and took my first training with John and Julie Gottman, Level 3 (pictured). It was a turning point: I decided to focus on couples, the core of every family, completed my training as a psychotherapist, and in 2024 became a Certified Gottman Therapist, the first in Italy. Alongside the Gottman Method, I trained in other couples therapy approaches that I find integrate well with it: EFT, PACT, PET-C and DBT for couples.
Couples with children remain a large part of my work. My years with families shape the attention I bring to every couple session: when two partners fight, their children feel it; when they repair, their children feel that too. It is also why I became a Bringing Baby Home Educator, trained by the Gottman Institute in its program for the transition to parenthood: the stage when, as the Gottmans’ research shows, most couples see satisfaction drop and conflict rise.
In 2026 I added a new chapter: teaching. In August, as a trainer-in-training, I co-led Master Trainer Vagdevi Meunier’s Level 1 Training in Austin, Texas, and presented one of its lectures. At the end of the mentorship the Gottman Institute authorized me to deliver the Level 1 Training in Italian, the first level of the Method’s certification path.
How I work with couples
Disarming conflict is at the center of my daily work.
I start from the Gottman Method and integrate it with EFT (Sue Johnson), PACT (Stan Tatkin), PET-C (Brent Atkinson) and DBT for couples (Alan Fruzzetti), drawing also on CBT and ACT, from a diversity-affirming perspective.
I work with couples to build a mutual alliance, including around each partner’s individual story (trauma, ADHD, neurodiversity, grief) and recovery from infidelity.
We begin with an assessment of your strengths and areas of challenge, agree on a shared goal, and close each session with an action plan. The full process is on the Couple therapy page.
Training
I also teach: the Gottman Institute’s official Level 1 training, in Italian, for Italian-speaking clinicians, with free webinars around it. If you are an English-speaking therapist, you can leave your details to hear about webinars and future English-language events.
Read more on the Training page.
A few numbers from my work
countries my clients come from
of the couples I see are intercultural
of the couples I see have children
Training and affiliations
- Certified Gottman Therapist no. 539 (The Gottman Institute, Seattle)
- Order of Psychologists of Emilia-Romagna no. 2813
- Gottman Method Levels 1, 2 and 3
- Gottman Seven Principles Workshop Leader
- Bringing Baby Home Educator
- Gottman training in infidelity, trauma and intimate partner aggression
- Authorized to use the Gottman Relationship Checkup
- Authorized by the Gottman Institute to deliver the Level 1 training in Italian (2026)
- PACT Level 1 (Stan Tatkin)
- EFT Externship (ICEEFT, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy)
- EFT training for LGBTQ+ couples (Dr. Robert Allan, 2025)
- DBT, CBT and ACT
- Specialization in cognitive psychotherapy, Studi Cognitivi, Padua
- Court-appointed technical advisor (CTU), Civil Court of Rimini
- APA International Affiliate no. C2002427821
- Member of DBT Italy (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) and ICEEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy)
AltreStrade
I co-founded AltreStrade Società Cooperativa Sociale, a non-profit social cooperative based in Padua that organizes coaching and training, and I am its president. Groups and psychoeducational programs for couples are being planned, organized by AltreStrade.
Get in touch
For couples
A free 30-minute info call, to ask your questions about how I work. After you book your call, I'll be in touch.
Book a free 30-min info callFor therapists
Training in Italian for clinicians, and news of webinars and English-language events.
Training for therapists (in Italian)