Services:
Services:
Services:
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Online Therapy Sessions
What Is Online Therapy? Online therapy, also known as e-therapy,
e-counseling, teletherapy, or cyber-therapy, involves providing mental health services over the internet. Psychological services can be offered through video conferencing, online chat or messaging either as an adjunct to in-person therapy or as standalone medium. In many cases psychological services can be enhanced with the use of technology, as it saves money, time, the need for transportation and can be done from anywhere around the world. With the use of technology in online therapy, psychological homework and keeping track of one’s progress become much easier and both drop out rates and homework incompletion rates lower significantly.
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Platforms: Skype / Viber / Zoom
Services are offered in both English and Greek
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Individual Psychotherapy
Individual Therapy is the most commonly sought form of therapy. We can seek therapy because we wish to solve a particular problem, overcome psychological symptoms (anxiety, panic attacks, emotional regulation difficulties etc.), to better manage a difficult transition in our life (adjustment difficulties, processing of a medical diagnosis, loss or separation) or to better process something that we have experienced in the past.
Individual Therapy can function as a ground for exploring and re-negotiating one’s perspective on the matters that affect us in the here and now even if they originate in the past.
Individual Therapy creates time and space for the client to tell his/her story in a safe and non-judgemental context.
Therapy is a space that we can let our deepest desires, wishes, fears, difficult feelings and behaviours unfold and try to understand them in order to better ourselves for ourselves and others. Through the development of a deeper awareness of one’s self and others we can become able to make more mindful and authentic choices for how to live ours lives.
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Supportive Therapy
Supportive therapy is a specific sub-domain of Individual Therapy that borders crisis management. Supportive Therapy focuses more on the here-and-now and how we can practically enhance or improve our depleted psychological defense systems during periods of significant change. It is often a shorter form of therapy where the therapist adopts a more active role compared to individual therapy, as the goal is not so much to understand ourselves but rather to become able to stand on our own two feet like we used to in the past.
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Couple's Therapy
Couple’s therapy creates a safe place for the two or more partners to express how they are experiencing their relationship and to discover their relationship dynamics and the ways in which they influence and interact with each other. The couple gets to set mutual goals and explore their expectations from therapy but also from each other. Even if goals appear to be conflicting, they can become an object to approach therapeutically and it can be a useful source of information. The differences between two partners can often be the cause of conflict and disagreement but if these differences are explored we might discover that they hide a wealth of possibilities and resources that can be used to the couple’s benefit. Couples therapy can work on all the elements that make up a relationship, from intimacy development, alleviating sexual difficulties, improvement of communication patterns (verbal and non-verbal) to time and resource(s) management. If the goal is also to have children, a therapist can assist with making the right decisions and preparing the couple to become parents through parental counselling.
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Family Therapy
Family therapy is at the heart of the systemic approach. Family is something much larger than the sum of its members. It is a complex and dynamic entity that has its own rules, rituals, beliefs and goals. Interactions within the family produce meaning, experiences, beliefs and behaviors.
Many of the main challenges that appear within a family structure relate either to different styles of communication between members about a common topic or different conflicting needs that arise between members and/or threaten the pre-existing structures of the family.
Family therapy is always carried out in an atmosphere of safety and trust, allowing for the necessary space in which all members of the family can be expressed, share their perspective and experiences and set individual and shared goals. Even if the family comes to therapy due to issues present with one of its members, the entire family is often affected therapeutically. Change can occur much faster when the whole system is involved. Therapeutic goals could be the change of communication patterns, discussion of behaviors or perceptions that no longer serve the family as a whole or its individual members or to understand and successfully the strengths and resources of the family in new ways.
In the focus of Family therapy relates to a child then Based on the child’s age we might work with the whole family, the parents and/or older siblings only, whereas teenagers are usually placed in individual therapy. For younger children under the age of 10 a second options exists within the family therapy approach that of parental counseling.
Parental counseling is a service that aims to provide the parents and in turn the kids with knowledge, guidance, tools, and emotional support, all without judgment or bias. Different from family counseling which has its own set of benefits, parent counseling focuses on how you as the parent affect the dynamics of your family and especially the health of your child. Parental counseling goals always depends on the therapeutic goals of the family and figuring out the best way in which to approach them in each specific circumstance.
In other words, the goal of family therapy is to support and empower all the members of the family so that they can achieve the desired change, solve problems and alleviate symptoms, to experience the family as a safe place and to achieve a balance between autonomy and interdependence.
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Group Therapy
The therapeutic dynamics and strengths of a group are the foundation upon which group therapy is built. Focusing upon a central communal theme, the aim of the group is to facilitate an experience which enhances self-awareness, coping skills, resilience and emotion management. Groups help us to discover roles and patterns of communication within relationships, allowing us to reflect in a safe space with our group and find support. By sharing, listening and the discovery that others relate to our experiences we are comforted by the feelings of support and the knowledge that we are not alone.
The success of Group psychotherapy is characterised by acceptance, empathy and belonging through which we experience joint co-evolution through co-operation. The ανήκειν (sense of belonging) is the essential force that drives the group and society at large.
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Psychoeducational Seminars / Workshops
Whilst psychoeducation is a core element of all successful therapies as it rests on scientific knowledge aimed at improving our lives, psychoeducation can also be delivered as a standalone intervention targeting individuals, caretakes, couples, families.
It can function both as a prevention strategy for avoiding relapse of symptoms or dysfunctional patterns or as an element that enhances our capacity to cope with on going difficulties.
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Home-based Palliative Care
Home-based palliative care is the care approach that provides meeting of physical, psychological, and moral needs of the patients with chronic and disabling health problems such as advanced cardiac, renal, respiratory, malignant, and neurological conditions in homebased setting. It is provided by a multidisciplinary team that consists of physicians, nurses, psychologists and others. As the symptoms of these patients start affecting the quality of life, the burden of the disease increases, and thus, while the treatment for the disease continues, an advanced care planning that would increase the comfort of patients and their caregivers should be put into place. Palliative care interventions can help prepare caregivers for the role of supporting a patient with advanced diseases by offering a one-to-one or family psycho-educational interventions. By increasing the primary caregivers skills and decreasing their psychological distress, patients and caregivers can increase their levels of perceived preparedness, competence and positive emotions and thus have a better quality of life. A well-equipped psychologist can enhance all aspects of the home-care experience for both caregivers and patients.
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Psychodiagnostic / Psychological Assessment
Psychodiagnostic testing is used to help diagnose and clarify concerns regarding the personality traits behavioral aspects, mood, emotional functioning, and cognitive processes of the person as those appear in day to day life. It can involve a variety of standardized tools and clinical observations in order to be able to distinguish psychological contributions that may complicate either: an accurate diagnosis and/or treatment.
Psychodiagnostic assessments often come to be as a result of a referral from other health specialists, legal or public entities.
A psychological assessment often follows three steps: 1) An initial history taking session with the patient and/or caregivers. 2) A consultation with family members, teachers, and/or other heal specialists only after the patient provides their consent (unless its legally mandated). 3) Inclusion of psychological tests.
A fourth and final step is to write a report which can take a few weeks followed by a final session with the patients where the report will be explained and discussed with the patient and suggestions will usually be provided.