About me
I am a Chartered and HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist and a Senior Lecturer in Counselling & Community Psychology at UWE Bristol. Over the past 20 years I have worked in various NHS and charity mental health services, with people from many different backgrounds. My original training was in relational psychotherapy and has integrated humanistic, psychodynamic, dialectical-behavioural (DBT), and multi-systemic (MST) models of therapy. I am also fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing), an intervention that helps people process traumatic or distressing memories to reduce their emotional impact.
I believe that good psychotherapy is a profound relational process between two people, the therapist and the client, that must take into account the social context(s) that keep people stuck or prevent them from living well. This means that I take an active interest in the family system(s), cultural parameters, and social locations of the people I work with. I maintain a critical view of diagnoses and try to resist what has been called ‘fast food therapy’ and manualised approaches to treat specific diagnosable conditions.
Like all therapists, I am informed by my personal experiences as well as my trainings and have developed specialist interests in working with the body, dreams, cross-cultural and decolonial perspectives, eco-psychotherapy, and narratives (i.e. stories we tell about ourselves and others tell about us). I am also sensitive to the current environmental and socio-political challenges that seem to make life more difficult for many of us.
My therapeutic work is with adults. I also offer clinical and research supervision, as well as mentorship for those who are interested in pursuing a career in counselling psychology and the therapeutic professions. I am bilingual and can offer therapy in Greek.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Level 3 EMDR Practitioner
- Level 1 Narrative Therapy Practitioner
- Doctorate in Psychotherapeutic & Counselling Psychology; University of Surrey (with full scholarship)
- MSc Social Anthropology; University of Edinburgh
- MA (Hons) Psychology; University of Edinburgh
I have published papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented my research at international conferences.
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