Work experience

As a psychology student in Athens, I covered placements in gynaecological and obstetrics wards and then volunteered in the children's hospital Paidon Agia Sofia in the national specialist team for developmental and behavioural paediatrics.

When I moved to London for my studies, I completed my MSc placement in Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). I worked as a specialist mental health support worker and then senior worker and assistant manager in a high support accommodation service for looked after young people and care leavers with severe mental health difficulties and risk to self and others. During my MA in psychodynamic psychotherapy I completed two years of infant observation and a year of toddler observation with the aim of following normal development. I later worked as a senior family worker with families of children with neurodiversity and disabilities in Islington council and I also worked as a youth worker in Hackney council with young offenders. Before returning to Greece to open my private practice, I worked as a CAMHS worker in Hackney Ark CAMHS, where I saw children, young people and families in the community for therapy and supported local primary schools as a school psychologist.

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Studies

King’s College London, University of London – London, UK
- μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στην Γνωσιακή Συμπεριφοριστική Θεραπεία για παιδιά κι εφήβους (PGDip) recognised by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) for adult and child psychotherapy sessions

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation/ University of Essex- Λονδίνο, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
- μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στην Ψυχαναλυτική προσέγγιση για παιδιά, νέους κι οικογένειες (ΜΑ)

King’s College London, University of London – Λονδίνο, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
- μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στην Ψυχική Υγεία Παιδιού κι Εφήβου (MSc)

-Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών– Αθήνα
- Πτυχείο Ψυχολογίας

My research interests are focused on understanding the experience of mental health service users and on reflecting on the psychoanalytic term of somatic countertransference.

Seminars

Early Intervention for eating disorders (CBT)- Hackney Eating Disorders service
Behavioural Experiments in CBT- CBT Reach
Intergenerational domestic abuse- CHSCP Hackney
Adultification- CHSCP Hackney
Systemic thinking in social care- Hackney council
Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice- Islington council
Mental Health First Aid- Mind
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy- British Psychological Society
Working with Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Framework- Emergence
Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE)- Depaul UK
First Aid training- Camden TDS
Holding conversations with young people regarding drugs and alcohol- Camden TDS
Management of Actual and Potential Aggression - British Institute of Learning Disabilities BUILD accreditation
Working with Parents with Mental Health Problems- Camden TDS
Safeguarding vulnerable adults and children- Depaul UK
Mentalization-Based Treatment for adolescents and families – the Anna Freud Centre
CBT formulation for depression and anxiety in young people- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and neuroscience, King’s College London
Infant, child and adolescent psychopathology- Centre for continuing education University of Athens
Educational psychology- Centre for continuing education University of Athens
Lakanian psychoanalysis (Child and adolescent cases)– Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies, Athens