Hi, I’m Rossana Pettersén, PhD

“I provide state-of-the-art psychotherapy through the lens of science, compassion and multicultural understanding”

With over 20+ years of experience, I’m a highly qualified Schema therapist, clinical psychologist and lecturer working in Stockholm. By integrating the latest scientific research into therapy sessions, I deliver a highly personalised treatment to help you understand yourself and others more deeply, build healthy relationships, cope with difficulties in healthy ways and live a life in flow.

Accredited and active member of the International Society of Schema Therapy and the International Center for Excellence in Emotion Focused Therapy

I provide:

individual therapy

  • Anxiety or panic attacks that feel hard to control

  • Depression, emotional numbness, or a loss of interest in activities that you used to enjoy

  • Burnout and exhaustion, especially common in fast-paced work environments

  • Low self-esteem, shame, impostor syndrome, or feeling “not good enough”

  • Grief after loss or separation

  • Trauma—recent or from childhood—that still lingers

  • Relationship difficulties and attachment wounds

  • A general sense of being stuck, disconnected, or lost

  • Mood swings

  • Difficulties setting boundaries

  • Self-sabotage

  • Victim of narcissistic/abusive parents, partners, bosses, etc.

Couples therapy

  • Communication problems

  • Unhealthy patterns like constant arguments, stonewalling, blaming the other, constant criticism

  • Affairs, betrayal and infidelity

  • Loss of intimacy

  • Constant invalidation or having your emotional needs ignored by your partner

  • Disconnection “Losing the spark”

  • Strained relationships with in-laws

  • Transition to parenthood

  • Empty nest

  • Healthy decoupling, separation or divorce

  • Difficulties to de-escalate problems

mediation for couples

  • Co-parenting after separation

  • Child custody

  • Decision to start fertility treatment

  • Decision to adopt a child

  • Decision to open the relationship

  • Revealing chronic disease

  • Communicating your will to change gender

  • Revealing “dark secrets” to your partner

  • Inheritance disputes

  • Decoupling after the decision to separate

my fees

Individual therapy

1,350 SEK for a 55 minutes session. Includes VAT, materials, handouts and psychological tests if needed

couples therapy

1,500 SEK for a 60 minutes.session. Includes VAT, materials and psychological tests if needed

mediation

1,500 SEK for a 60 minutes session. Includes VAT

2,300 SEK for a 60 minutes session, includes VAT and transcription of the session emailed to both parties

You are most welcome to my practice

Sigtunagatan 4, Stockholm-Sweden or Online via Zoom

My path

“Let me gently help you to unweave what no longer serves you, so you can live more freely, more fully, as your truest self”
— Rossana Pettersén

I’ve always being fascinated by the inner strength of people. Resilience after disasters, personal growth after trauma, persistence after failure, forgiveness in victims of abuse and adaptability to changing circumstances, to name a few ways in which we humans are admirable.

This fascination led me to a life-long quest to learn everything I can about human psychology and psychotherapy. My own path includes more than 4 years of own therapy, silent retreats, volunteering in remote areas, 8 years of scientific research in academia, and a daily practice of mindfulness meditation which prevails today.

After my doctoral dissertation, I decided to work in Clinical practice and furthered my education to become a psychotherapist. In my work with individual clients, I chose to specialise in Schema therapy and for Couples, I specialised in Emotion Focused Therapy.

In every session, I bring together evidence-based treatments, deep empathy, and practical tools to help you heal from the past and create a more fulfilling future. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship issues, my approach is always rooted in compassion, collaboration, and the belief that real change is possible.

credentials

  • BsC Psychology (Peru)

  • MsC Clinical psychology (Peru)

  • MsC Suicide Prevention at Karolinska Institute, Sweden

  • PhD in Medical Science - Psychology, at Karolinska Institute

  • Schema Therapy, Swedish Institute for CBT and Schema Therapy

  • Schema therapist certification, Dutch institute for Schema therapy

  • Emotion-focused therapy for couples certification, Stockholm EFT Center

    Publications

  • Co-author of the Oxford Textbook of Suicide Prevention. A global perspective. Oxford University press. 2009

  • Co-author of the book Postvention in action. Hogrefe. 2017

  • and 4 scientific articles