About me

I studied psychology in France and received my undergraduate degree Maîtrise de Psychologie and my first postgraduate degree D.E.S.S. de Psychologie Clinique et Pathologique in clinical psychology and psychopathology from the University of Nice. I continued my studies in the UK where I obtained an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Sheffield.  Currently, I’m pursuing a Doctorate degree in Psychology at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (France).

I started my career in Greece as an intern and postgraduate researcher in a private psychiatric clinic in the suburb of Kifissia in Athens. During that time, I also volunteered my services at the municipal day-clinics of Kifissia and Agios Stefanos. In 2003, I launched my private practice providing psychoanalysis to adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adolescents and adults, and psychodynamic counselling to couples and families. My expertise also includes psychological evaluations of adults based on Rorschach και ΤΑΤ projective psychological tests, as well as perinatal counselling and psychotherapy for couples facing problems or dilemmas regarding childbearing, medically assisted reproduction and adoption. As part of this, I consult with public and private IVF units providing to the medical and nursing staff continuing education on the psychology of infertility patients which is one of my main research interests along with maternity.

Moreover, I am an accredited Balint group leader for medical doctors and other health professionals. I am a member of the UK Balint Society and founding member of the Hellenic Society of Medical Psychology and Balint Groups and other international scientific organizations concerned with psychosomatic medicine, perinatal mental health and assisted reproduction. I am also a member of the Hellenic Psychological Society and of its Clinical Psychology and Psychology of Health section. My teaching and supervising experience includes teaching undergraduate and graduate psychology and psychoanalysis courses in a private higher-education institution and providing clinical supervision to psychologists and psychotherapists. I am also involved with clinical and theoretical training seminars for psychologists and other health professionals. I am the chief editor of Lapsus, an online psychology journal and regularly contribute scientific and general-reader articles to journals and periodicals. I am licensed to practice in Greece and France and participate in the psychoanalytic society Quatrième Groupe (Organisation Psychanalytique de Langue Française). I have conducted two personal psychoanalyses with training analysts of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society (HPS).