Services

Psychotherapy

In-OFFICE sessions

Sessions are taking place in my office in Aglantzia – Nicosia. It is critical for me for my client to feel safe and in a supportive environment.

Therefore, the structure of my office is such that offers the kind of comfortable and cozy feeling we all need to feel like talking and expressing our thoughts and emotions. 

remote sessions

Although more rarely, remote sessions could be arranged in the case the client is facing illness or injury or inability to move due to old age.

Psychotherapy is only effective when the client is feeling cozy in a comfortable and safe space. 

 

Services Provided

Individual Therapy

Individual adult therapy makes use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways. The aims are to improve an individual’s well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy is a type of therapy that targets the conflict in a romantic relationship and with the help of the therapist, the couple can gain insight into their relationship, resolve conflict and improve relationship satisfaction, and improve their quality of their communication.

Family Therapy

Family therapy is a type of therapy – or psychological counselling – that can help family members improve their interpersonal communication and resolve any conflicts in their system as a family.

Online Therapy

This service is especially for individuals who cannot drive or have difficulties driving in my office. It is also appropriate for individuals who are in another town or village, or even another country. 

Please find my Skype Profile by clicking below: https://join.skype.com/invite/dJQWACjqfgL9

Parents Counselling

Parent’s counselling deals with educating parents about:
– attachment styles
– types of parenting
– the dynamics in the family from a psychological perspective
– coping strategies
– parenting skills
– building confidence

All the above interventions are based on evidence-based research.

Treatment Specialties

Anxiety Disorders

What characterizes anxiety disorders is significant feelings of anxiety and fear usually about the future. Anxiety is described as intense worry about future events, while fear is an instant reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as increased heart rate and shakiness which may lead to uncontrollable consequence both physically and mentally that could lead to panic symptoms and other physical symptoms as well. My therapeutic interventions follow a humanistic/person-centered approach from the existential phenomenological perspective in order to examine the meaning behind the client's actions. Techniques from the Cognitive Behavioral school of thought are also used on the basis of a good therapeutic relationship.
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Depression

Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease your ability to function at work and at home. Interventions are targeted in assessing what are the risk factors that keep the individual in a depressed state, and through talk therapy address any negative cognitive distortions that keep the problem active.

My therapeutic mode of therapy usually includes techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Existential therapy on the basis of a good therapeutic alliance.
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Relationships issues

Interventions are designed to help couples strengthen their relationships in three primary areas: friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning.
In therapy, couples learn to replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions and to repair past troubling issues. Interventions are designed to increase closeness and intimacy in order to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples shared goals. Relapse prevention is also addressed throughout therapy.
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Substance Abuse

Substance abuse includes the active use and/or dependency on any mood-altering substance. Substances include alcohol, sedatives, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, opiods, caffeine, nicotine, and prescription drugs, as well as legal drugs. Addictive behavior is characterized by preoccupation with the substance or the experience, withdrawal symptoms after not engaging in the substance or experience, increased tolerance for the substance or activity in order to achieve the same effect, and continued use despite negative consequences. Substance abuse is defined as “a maladaptive pattern of substance use manifested by recurrent and significant adverse consequences related to the repeated use of substances.” These consequences may be social or occupational (repeated absences from work), legal (being arrested for driving while drunk), or social (marital separation or divorce). Counselling is offered from a CBT perspective and through the perspective of Existential therapy.
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Parenting Counselling

Being a parent is a highly demanding and challenging process. Bringing into the world a new born baby brings a lot of responsibilities and stress to the couple. These may stir up a mixture of emotions that may lead the couple towards a lack of communication. In therapy, we bring these issues under close examination and proceed towards a shared understanding a derived meaning of them.
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Grief & Loss

The emotional pain of parting ways with a beloved one is always a difficult one to process. Grief counselling gives you the space and time to process your emotions and place meaning in the loss of the beloved one. Emphasis is given on a good therapeutic relationship in order to bring forward the pain associated with the loss and verbalize the emotions and eventually learning to cope with it day by day.
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common questions

Therapy takes place in a comfortable room in the clinicians’ office. There is not any prerequisite for therapy. You just come in, relax, and on your own pace and rhythm you share what troubles you and offers distress in your life. If you do not know yet what it is, it is a good practice to assess it using the 4D’s of abnormality: deviance, dysfunction, distress, and danger.

Each session is 50 minutes long except for couples therapy and family therapy which is 60 minutes per session

Yes I do. In Cyprus, however, there are very limited insurance companies who cover psychotherapy fees. In such cases, the clients pays the session fees and is being reimbursed later on from the insurance company.

In order for therapy to be proven beneficial, weekly sessions are recommended

According to the GDPR all data taken before and during therapy are being kept confidential. Informed consent is taken by the client in the first session in which is stated explicitly that the information shared in the office and in therapy is being kept confidential and that disclosure of private information is only shared where serious harm towards oneself or others is detected, in which case, the family of the client is being informed as well as the welfare office and the associated services.

You can either schedule an appointment through either my webpage in the contact tab, by sending an email, or by calling me directly. 

Refer to the therapy session rates tab for that for more explicit detail

You don’t. Not unless you have a first session with your therapist. It is very important to be able to have a good connection with your therapist. However, we are highly trained in order to be able to tune into the frequency of the client and be able to listen properly. If after the first session you don’t feel that you are a good match, then feel free to express that and we will be able to provide you with a referral or a good recommendation of a colleague that matches your needs more closely.

As many as it is required for you to feel that you are your own therapist. 

Refer to the contacts tab above for more specific info about it. 

I believe that in this day and age we are, looking at the world only from one perspective is not enough to derive meaning. Therefore, I could say that my therapeutic modality is holistic/synthetic having at its core existential therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy. 

I maintain a trauma-informed practice and therefore, I usually use feedback-informed therapy with my clients.