Micol Ascoli

Message to Patient

• Happiness is not difficult. It comes spontaneously with truth and justice

Specialties

• Intercultural psychotherapy
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• General adult psychiatry
• Personality disorders
• Mood disorders
• Psychoses
• Neuroses
• Stress-related mental disorders
• Perinatal mental health
• Migration and adjustment problems

Education Background

• MBBS (Hons) (It) Medicine and Surgery
• Specialist Training in Psychiatry

Work Experience

• Spent two years as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Rome, Italy in 2024
• Worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist, “San Valentino” Private Psychiatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
• Spent over 15 years as a consultant in General Adult Mental Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
• Worked for four years as an Associate Clinical Director for Acute Services, Bedfordshire Mental Health and Wellbeing Services, United Kingdom
• Spent two years as a Consultant Psychiatrist, Tower Hamlets Cultural Consultation Service, London, United Kingdom
• Served as an Associate Practitioner, Psymplicity Healthcare, Harley Street, London, United Kingdom for three years
• Joined Beijing United Family Hospital in 2020

Academic Achievements 

• Multiple publications in peer reviewed international journals, translation of psychiatric textbooks, and chair of multiple symposia at international congresses
• Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry, London 2012

Honors, Awards, and Professional Memberships

• World Association of Cultural Psychiatry “Sava Award” for contributions to the association and to the field of cultural psychiatry
• Chair of Psychological Health Center