Biography
I was born in Athens and grew up in a village of Crete. I hold a Bachelor and Master’s degree in psychology and I have studied and trained in various psychotherapeutic techniques like Gestalt, Bioenergetics and Psychoanalysis. Furthermore I worked for years as a massage therapist focusing my work on fascia and free joint movement, doing at the same time research on how bodily responses and psychic processes are connected and combined. I have presented my work in several congresses.
My studies in psychology, psychotherapy and massage though came as a natural resultant of the dynamics that I was exposed while growing up in Crete. High steep mountains and cozy blue beaches are the main features of the island literally, which, if we see them symbolically, can be the contradictions that each of us conceals in his soul and body. My involvement with music and theater helped me to understand the balance and dynamics that develop between the body and the mind, between the individual and the group. In my practice, I am interested in giving equal space and time to the body and mind, to the individual and to the group, but also to the interactions between them.