I am a qualified Counselling Psychologist that specialises in evidence-based psychological treatment and metapsychology. I work with adults (18+) and can offer sessions in English and in Greek.

Training and Qualifications

• British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Member (CPsychol) since January 2016
• Healthcare Professions Council (HCPC) registered Practitioner Psychologist since July 2015
• Doctorate of Psychology (DPsych), Counselling Psychology, City University London, February 2015

I finished my undergraduate degree in Psychology in The American College of Greece in 2011, where I practiced as an assistant psychologist for the Dromokaition Psychosis Psychiatric Team.

During my Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at City University London, I practiced in the charity sector and in an NHS Drug and Alcohol service.

I became qualified in 2015 and promptly after started working for primary, secondary and specialist NHS services. I had the honour of working with people from various walks of life and have significant clinical experience with acute and chronic psychological distress, such as anxiety, mood, personality and eating difficulties, as well as complex trauma and psychosis.

I started my private practice in 2017 where I focused on my independent psychoanalytic training and practice (Freudian and Lacanian) and in integrating CBT and psychoanalysis. I strongly believe that there is a need to focus on unconscious processes and the role they play in our lives.

In 2019 I joined Headstrong Counselling as Head of Clinical Services and senior supervisor. I had the privilege of training students of psychology and psychotherapy exercise their passion for the clinical work but also helped expand access to psychological therapy services for the public.

Therapy can be viewed as a mix of two aims, or processes, one of recovery and one of discovery. The difference lies in how they approach suffering, love, hope, or meaning – and what may be missing. Recovery helps us claim back what we lost, and discovery invites us the question these losses, and challenge our personal myths. In a practical sense, recovery aims at covering gaps in our functioning: learning a new coping skill, approaching a problem with new outside knowledge, restoring a measure of order. Discovery allows exploring why the gaps are there to begin with, and what was the order that created problems in the first place. Recovery invites meaning from outside, and discovery challenges the meaning that is already inside. Recovery asks "how can I do things right?” while discovery asks “what do I mean by "right"?”. At different points in our lives we need our therapy to err more on one side rather than on the other.

It is the client, or patient, or analysand that makes the choice to voice which process he wants, or maybe needs, in their therapy.

In my practice I give priority to discovery but I also appreciate the immediateness and empowering effects of recovery. I find that the umbrella term “therapy” should include both processes as equally valid. Not everyone, and not at every point in their life, needs to challenge their truths – especially if these are all that keeps the person together in difficult times. The reason that I as a practitioner prioritise discovery is that it allows for a broader perspective, and for raising useful, if not difficult questions, and aims to address long-term, repeated problems and suffering. At the end of the day, it is the subjective experience of the client that takes centre stage.

– Inspired by P. Verhaeghe and A. Kullman

Health and Care Professions Council - Practitioner Psychologist.

British Psychological Society - Chartered Counselling Psychologist.

British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies - Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
International Neuropsychoanalysis Society - Clinical Fellow