About Me

Hello, my name is Vera Braghiroli.
I am a Mother, a Pastoral Care Practitioner, a Parenting Coach and a Trainee Counsellor.

Originally from Italy, I attained a Master's Degree in Communication and Social Sciences in Milan, where I met my life partner. Together, we moved to the UK in 2007, where our family still lives.

My first professional career was in advertising and marketing. I have served as Promo Producer/Director for several international television networks, operating between Italy and the UK, for 12 years.

When our child was born, I left my career. While home educating him throughout primary school, I became a certified instructor of the Hand in Hand Parenting pedagogic method in 2020. I am currently completing a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and pursuing an MA/Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Minster Centre in London, while working as a Pastoral Care Practitioner.

Through the stories other parents, child carers and clients have shared with me, I have learnt to value all forms of learning. Yet, my deepest learning has come from my own child, my mothering experience and our family’s journey with autonomous education and unlearning.

My areas of interest and expertise include working with children with a history of trauma, who are highly sensitive, display anxious or explosive behaviours, asynchronous development and learning and sensory differences.

In my work, I aim to foster authenticity, autonomy and secure attachment through mind-body-soul connection, intentional parenting and self-reparenting. I am keen on emotional education, neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, positive discipline, non-violent communication, trauma-recovery, de-schooling and self-directed education.

I look forward to walking alongside you on the “path back home” that parenthood can be, through all the depths and heights that becoming a parent brings into life.