She practices in Milano where she runs the European Institute of Systemic-relational Therapies (www.eist.it) which she founded twenty years ago. She is also Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bergamo. Her family semantic polarities theory, extensively presented in Semantic polarities and psychopathology in the family: permitted and forbidden stories (Routledge, New York, 2013), offers an innovative perspective about eating disorders.