Ania Capaldo
BSc, MA, DCPsych
- NSPC Roles
- Course Leader,
Research Supervisors: Masters and Secondary
About
Ania is a Counselling Psychologist and UKCP-accredited existential psychotherapist with rich clinical experience working with adults across a range of psychological and health-related contexts. Her practice includes work within bereavement services and hospice settings, as well as with individuals experiencing trauma, eating disorders, and complex life transitions. She is also trained in EMDR, which informs her work particularly in relation to trauma and the processing of overwhelming experiences.
Alongside her clinical practice, Ania has specialist expertise in qualitative research methodologies, particularly Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and Structural Existential Analysis (SEA). Her work is grounded in a phenomenological and existential orientation, with a focus on the rigorous and sensitive exploration of lived experience and meaning-making.
Her doctoral research examined the experience of witnessing the death of a close other. The study employed IPA to develop detailed, idiographic accounts of participants’ experiences, alongside SEA to situate these accounts within broader existential structures, including embodiment, relationality, temporality, and meaning. Her research and clinical work were supervised by Emmy van Deurzen, grounding her approach firmly within the existential tradition.
Ania’s research interests centre on areas characterised by psychological depth and existential significance, often situated within health and medical contexts. These include:
* Death and dying
* Bereavement, including bereavement by suicide and anticipatory grief
* Life transitions and identity reorganisation
* Trauma, including vicarious and relational trauma
* Anxiety and the lived experience of anxiety
* Suicidal ideation and the experience of suicidality
* Psycho-oncology and experiences of illness
* Health psychology and medical contexts
* Body image and eating disorders
* The spiritual dimension of human experience and transpersonal psychology
She has a particular interest in how human experiences are lived through the four dimensions of existence and how they disrupt or reshape existing frameworks of meaning, identity, and relational life.
Alongside her clinical practice, Ania has specialist expertise in qualitative research methodologies, particularly Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and Structural Existential Analysis (SEA). Her work is grounded in a phenomenological and existential orientation, with a focus on the rigorous and sensitive exploration of lived experience and meaning-making.
Her doctoral research examined the experience of witnessing the death of a close other. The study employed IPA to develop detailed, idiographic accounts of participants’ experiences, alongside SEA to situate these accounts within broader existential structures, including embodiment, relationality, temporality, and meaning. Her research and clinical work were supervised by Emmy van Deurzen, grounding her approach firmly within the existential tradition.
Ania’s research interests centre on areas characterised by psychological depth and existential significance, often situated within health and medical contexts. These include:
* Death and dying
* Bereavement, including bereavement by suicide and anticipatory grief
* Life transitions and identity reorganisation
* Trauma, including vicarious and relational trauma
* Anxiety and the lived experience of anxiety
* Suicidal ideation and the experience of suicidality
* Psycho-oncology and experiences of illness
* Health psychology and medical contexts
* Body image and eating disorders
* The spiritual dimension of human experience and transpersonal psychology
She has a particular interest in how human experiences are lived through the four dimensions of existence and how they disrupt or reshape existing frameworks of meaning, identity, and relational life.
Ania can be contacted at [email protected]
Currently available to work with two students.