Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli is a psychologist in private practice in the Toronto area and is registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario (C.Psych.). He received his PhD in social and personality psychology from York University in 1987 and spent fifteen years as a psychologist in a maximum-security prison before moving into full-time private practice in 2003. His areas of expertise include forensic psychology, neuropsychology and trauma, and he works with clients facing depression, grief, stress, phobias and chronic pain.

He is the author of several books on mental health, including The Everything Guide to Overcoming PTSD (2014), Depression: Your Questions Answered (2019) and Self-Injury: Your Questions Answered, and has written about psychology since 2007, including his long-running Media Spotlight blog for Psychology Today. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association, and has volunteered with Canadian Red Cross disaster services since 2006.