My psychoanalytic practice

«If you hate or envy a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.»
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought

I offer a relaxing and welcoming space in the southern suburbs of Athens as well as online sessions from the comfort of your home.

I believe that we live in times of great individualization that serve to alienate the ‘’true self’’ and further distant one’s subjectivity by converting it into an object that is relationally defined. Today’s, neoliberal streams of political awareness tend to create a false sense of identity that may reflect a plethora of ‘pseudo needs’ derived from internalized commercialism and unresolved traumas and hidden desires.

You don’t have to pretend to be some omniscient authority to be a therapist. You must recognize and bring the multiple different roles you have into a harmonious whole that reflects your uniqueness. Many people of my generation ignore or bury their subjectivity by wearing a guise of a beloved character, which provides confusion and a gap between real and imagined identity that feels chaotic.

My work revolves around the concept of intersubjectivity. The way the client interacts with the therapist highlights the client’s nuclear beliefs and relational constructs. This interaction is crucial to establishing a concrete therapeutic alliance as well as an appropriate and fruitful therapeutic plan. I specialize in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy derived from the work of Stephen A. Mitchell. Relational psychoanalysis offers the appropriate space to examine the role of real and imagined relationships with others in mental disorders and psychotherapy. We dive into the causal links of personality formation which emerge from the matrix of early formative relationships with parents and other figures, and we return to the ‘’here and now’’.

Finally, I am more than equipped to use evidence-based cognitive behavioral skills and techniques in cases that demand a more rapid form of treatment.