City and Angel Psychotherapy- Carla Di Falco

19/03/2025

My review of “Adolescence” the Netflix Series is on my blog.

https://www.cityandangelpsychotherapy.co.uk/post/adolescence-the-wake-up-call-no-adult-should-miss

Do not miss this series, do not stop talking about it.
If you think it is something you will watch while you scroll your phone, think again. All your attention will be stolen and focused on Stephen Graham and the performance of Owen Copper, his on screen son Jamie.
Read my post and let me know what you think! Lets not stop talking about it

Writing a review of the Netflix series "Adolescence" seems like an insurmountable challenge. How can you find the words for perfection, intense pain, and the sorrow of realising that what you see on screen is- to varying extent- occurring everywhere around you?At the same time , we cannot not talk a...

17/05/2023

NEW BLOG POST!
An overwhelming amount of new findings show the detrimental effect of smartphones on teenagers’ mental health and general wellbeing.
It is utterly worrying but the good news is that awareness is increasing and parents have more and more tools to make a change and say yes! to wait to buy smartphones to their teenager children. New studies reveal THE YOUNGER THE AGE TEENAGERS GOT THEIR SMARTPHONE THE WORSE THE MENTAL HEALTH REPORTED AS ADULTS.
If you want to know more and make an informed choice, if you wonder “why are smartphones so bad if everyone got one” please read the article. Spread the word to as many parents as you can. Things must and can change, it really does not take much and it is much less hard than you think.
Let’s protect our children’s wellbeing and ultimately our society.

In 2018, a research led by Anderson and Jiang estimated that 45% of teenagers use their smartphone near-constantly. This was 5 years ago, before the pandemic, before we spent all that time home, before the algorithm of most apps diabolically perfected even further in the art of hooking customers to....

11/10/2022

🖱Hope you enjoy my new BLOG POST! 🖱
Physical health..mental health? Or maybe just ONE HEALTH?
How often have you felt great physically but in the worst mood? And how often have you felt so poorly in your body but full of energy and positivity in your mind? not very often right?
Let's try to understand why🧩.
Hope you enjoy the reading , I look forward to talking more about it with you
https://www.cityandangelpsychotherapy.co.uk/post/physical-mental-we-have-one-health

07/03/2022

Can you recognise yourself in this loop?
New post on my blog!
https://www.cityandangelpsychotherapy.co.uk/post/the-perfectionism-procastination-paralysis-imposter-loop

How familiar does the following scenario sound to to you? Let's take Lisa, a self-employed London based professional who often creates quite challenging expectations for herself: neverending to-do lists, multiple complex projects and competing deadlines because " I can't say no, I owe them", " it is...

18/04/2021

Wow. This is one of the most inspiring stories I have come across in a while.
Resilience can truly be boundless.

https://www.facebook.com/228735667216/posts/10158706889937217/?d=n

08/02/2021

"Lisez, arrachez-vous aux écrans. Les écrans vous vident, les livres vous remplissent."
Read, get away from the screens. Screens empty you while books nourish you.

Amazing speech from Bruno Le Maire, french Minister of Economy and Finance. To listen to and remember every day.

https://fb.watch/3wU4ebzfBM/

17/01/2021

Have you watched "Pieces of a Woman" yet? I would love to hear your thoughts. Here is my blog post, hope you enjoy reading it.

https://www.cityandangelpsychotherapy.co.uk/post/pieces-of-a-trauma

I will not attempt to deny it in any way. This last year has been rough for most of us. Lately, to escape from the grim news and to practice some self-care, I have intentionally avoided any kind of entertainment that reminded me of loss, tragedy, mourning. I was doing quite well with my resolution u...

24/11/2020

Never tired of this one

13/10/2020

09/07/2020

Several new patients who decided to start therapy in the last 4 weeks, as well as existing clients, wondered why they felt worse when the lockdown restrictions started to be eased than when they were in fulll lockdown.
This graph may help explaining these feelings.

When a community goes through a disaster, in this case a pandemic, there are some lows and highs, for example the "honeymoon" phase in which we surprisingly feel more connected to our friends, family and a general sense of solidarity.
Past the peak, it is common to experience more difficult feelings: apathy, mental fatigue, low mood, anxiety. It is the phase of the disillusionment. The old normal is far away and the new normal or next normal is still unknown. The phase in which we are now with the pandemic varies considerably from country to country but we are somehow between the disillusionment and the reconstruction phases.
To know more, read my last blog post.
https://www.cityandangelpsychotherapy.co.uk/post/emotional-responses-to-the-pandemic-where-are-we

20/05/2020

Even during a pandemic, you may feel some unexpected happiness.
Great article
https://www.self.com/story/moments-of-joy-in-pandemic?fbclid=IwAR1oa5gzOGSX27iz0TcYm0E0nMurVeEfowytuf59FXZYE3ucap68uM6c4GQ

In these times, moments of happiness are a gift.

11/05/2020

Have you binge watched Bbc/hulu new serie "Normal People" yet? Hope you enjoy my review from a psychologist's perspective.

https://www.cityandangelpsychotherapy.co.uk/post/the-rawness-of-love-a-normal-people-review