Francesca A. Nadalini is a psychotherapist and the mother of ten children. She was born in Bordighera on the Italian Riviera, to a Scottish mother and an Italian father. During World War II, as the Allies fought their way up the boot of Italy in pursuit of the Nazis, she and her family lived in Florence under German occupation until the city was liberated by British and American troops and administered by the Allied military government. After the war, she married an American Fifth Army officer and, once in the United States, the couple made their home and raised their family—five boys and five girls—in New Jersey. In 1986, once her children were grown, Nadalini divorced her husband, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Thomas Edison College of New Jersey, and went on to earn a master’s degree in clinical social work at Yeshiva University in New York City. From 1992 to 1995 she studied at the Masterson Institute in New York where she trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She was in private practice for several decades and is currently semi-retired at age ninety-six. Until the onset of COVID-19, Nadalini ran a weekly discussion group as a volunteer at a local Continuing Care Residential Community and, before retiring in December 2019, she was treating individual patients at the same facility in her capacity as a Medicare provider for almost twenty years. In homage to her brother and his son, both of whom served their country with great honor, Nadalini was a volunteer for the Give an Hour organization which offers mental health services pro bono to frontline healthcare workers, as well as to military veterans. She is published in Medium Daily Digest online. Nadalini lives by herself in New Jersey, not far from some of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
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