Elisabetta Ramonda
Psychologist | Clinician & Career Counselor
The story of Elisabetta Ramonda - Psychologist | Clinician & Career Counselor
I encountered Private Community at a crucial moment in my professional life. I am a psychologist, and at that time, I had decided to leave a stable employee position to choose self-employment. It wasn't a leap into the unknown: within me, there was a clear mission, felt for a long time, that demanded space. I wanted to give voice to a new approach in educational and career guidance, a topic I have known for years and saw as rich with prospects, not only for those who have to choose "what to do," but for those who want to learn to know themselves, value themselves, and build a direction before a crisis arrives.
I had training, experience, competence. Yet I realized something was missing. I wasn't lacking work: people, requests, and urgencies kept coming. The point was that often they were not the people I truly wanted to work with. As a clinician, I was used to addressing problems, difficulties, and struggles. But I wanted to shift the focus: I wanted to speak to those who wish to be well, who want to work on their resources, who feel they can choose, grow, and prevent rather than chase. And there a subtle and exhausting fracture opened: I believed in what I wanted to bring, but I couldn't make it concrete in my daily life.
Within that frustration was a question I could no longer avoid: do the people I am looking for really exist, or am I just telling myself they do? And above all, how do I reach them? It was in that "how" that I understood the truth: it wasn't a lack of courage. It was a lack of method.
Private arrived as a completion. Not as another theory, not as a momentary inspiration, but as a structure capable of grounding itself. I need concreteness, I need to experience firsthand what works. In Private, I found a fast, tangible model that allowed me to integrate missing parts and enhance those already present. It helped me move beyond the urgency of the "here and now" - not because the present doesn't matter, but because when you remain glued to daily management, you end up not leaving space for the vision. I had a vision, but I didn't have a system to support it.
With concrete tools, I better outlined my target, the desired professional opportunities, the value-aligned partners. I simplified processes, targeted objectives, normalized the external rhythm with what I felt pulsing inside. And, above all, I learned to make space. One of the strongest limiting beliefs for me was the idea that "having less" was a risk. I kept saying yes to requests that were no longer within my container, and that automatic yes occupied time and energy, taking them away from what I wanted to build. The interaction with others helped me see that dynamic clearly and gave me practical courage: not emotional courage, but the courage of choice. I started to select, to say no, to progressively reduce what frustrated me, to truly make space for what I desired.
In this, interaction was the most powerful lever. Because interaction, if protected and non-judgmental, doesn't push you to change direction: it allows you to see other sides and at the same time strengthen your own. It's a double movement. It broadens your perspective and makes you more solid. Alone, you often remain within the same frame: you think the same things, ask yourself the same questions, circle the same perimeter. Interacting with others moves you, puts you in motion, makes you discover possibilities you hadn't considered, and paradoxically, helps you recognize more strongly what is truly yours.
It is here that I also understood the value of interconnected visions. Different people, with different roles and contexts, but united by a deep alignment of values and intentions. When you meet someone who speaks your language - the most authentic one - not only does understanding arise: trust arises, sincerity arises, operability arises. From there come strategic connections that become partnerships, collaborations, natural integrations. And that sense of belonging changes the quality of work: you work better and feel better. You feel part of the work group you've always desired, even if it's not physically next to you.
In a professional world that often fosters solitude and competition, in Private I found a context of calm. Here, there is nothing to prove: you contribute your part and build. This feeling - so simple and so rare - re-centered me. It restored a more serene and productive way of working, and also a clearer idea of what I want to bring: recognizable, effective, reliable, evolutionary value.
I entered Private with a dream. I believed in it, but I saw it as distant. Today, about a year and a half later, I see it as concrete, tangible, real. And it is also for this reason that I chose to make myself available as Community Manager: because when you experience a model that truly works, you feel the desire to become an active witness to it. Not to convince, but to show the opportunity. Because sometimes you don't need to change direction. You need a method that makes it possible.