Valeria Brenna is a trained Psychologist  and Psychotherapist specialised in  Brief Integrative Psychotherapy (BIP).

She is currently involved as a consultant in the project "Prevention and treatment of mental disorders for the perinatal period" at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan.

Her work, both in public contexts and in her private practice, focuses on the identification, evaluation and treatment of psychopathology in the perinatal period,

She is member of the Executive Board of the Italian branch of the Marce Society, member of the working group “Severe outcomes of perinatal depression: maternal suicide and infanticide”, COST Action CA18138 Riseup-PPD (Research Innovation and Sustainable Pan-European Network in Peripartum Depression Disorder) and member of the working group: “Perinatal mental health and COVID19 pandemic”; in collaboration with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), the main centre for research, control and technical-scientific advice on public health in Italy.