Health professionals for Anxiety and Stress in the Southern suburbs of Athens

Georgia Mpertsia is a Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy Therapist. She specializes in treating anxiety, phobias, panic disorders, depression, relational and family difficulties in adults, adolescents, and children. Additionally, she teaches at a private college in Attica. She graduated from the Department of Psychology at Panteion University of Athens, and completed her postgraduate studies with honors in Clinical Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Her specialization was carried out in the Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapeutic Approach. Her clinical experience includes mental health and rehabilitation facilities such as K.E.TH.E.A DIAVASI, E.P.A.PSY, and private support structures for individuals with disabilities. She has been trained in clinical and translational research as a member of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuropsychology at Aiginiteio Hospital. Currently, she collaborates with private psychotherapeutic institutions in Attica. She has been trained in clinical assessment and administration of Psychometric Tools for the investigation of Anxiety, Mood, Depression and Mania, Cognitive Functions/Mental Functionality in healthy and clinical populations. Finally, she has participated in and attended numerous conferences and seminars in the field of Psychology and has published a variety of articles in collaboration with online mental health platforms.

Logos Kai Ekfrasi is a Special Education Center that has been operating for 17 years and has been based in Kaisariani since 2008. It provides parent counseling services, individual psychotherapy for children and adolescents, as well as individual and group psychopedagogical programs. The Child Psychologists at the center offer parent counseling on issues concerning parents, such as painful transitions, more specifically, managing divorce, coping with grief/death/illness in the family, difficulties in handling everyday situations like setting boundaries for children’s behavior, addressing difficulties with children’s nutrition and sleep, toilet training, managing the child’s refusal to attend school or complete homework, behavioral problems such as conflicts within family relationships, managing aggression and angry outbursts, addressing internet addiction, emotional problems including managing bullying experienced at school, phobias, insecurity, introversion, passivity, and jealousy towards a sibling. Additionally, they provide individual psychotherapy for children and adolescents facing emotional or behavioral difficulties such as anxiety, phobias, low self-esteem, obsessions, psychosomatic issues, eating disorders, selective mutism, aggressive or passive behavior, delinquent behavior, internet or electronic game addiction, and difficulties in social and interpersonal relationships. Finally, they offer individual or group psychopedagogical programs for children who demonstrate difficulties in communication and social skills, meaning they struggle to communicate effectively with others, behave appropriately in various social situations, make friends, share, wait their turn, follow rules, accept defeat, and understand others’ intentions and emotions.

Η Σολωμού Ελισάβετ είναι Σύμβουλος Νευροδιαφορετικότητας και Νευροεπιστήμης.

Είναι δημιουργός της Lotus Coaching Drama Method® – Neurology-Based Drama (NBD), μιας καινοτόμου προσέγγισης που συνδυάζει το coaching, τη νευροδιαφορετικότητα και τη νευροεπιστήμη με την υποκριτική και τις θεατρικές τεχνικές, ενσωματώνοντας στρατηγικές προσωπικής ανάπτυξης, συναισθηματικής ρύθμισης, επικοινωνίας και ανάπτυξης κοινωνικών δεξιοτήτων. Σχεδίασε αυτή τη μέθοδο ειδικά για άτομα με νευροδιαφορετικότητα, όπως άτομα με ΔΕΠΥ και άτομα στο φάσμα του αυτισμού, με στόχο να τα υποστηρίξει ώστε να διαχειρίζονται πιο αποτελεσματικά τις σκέψεις, τα συναισθήματα και τις καθημερινές προκλήσεις τους.

Μέσα από τη δουλειά της βοηθά τα άτομα να προχωρούν μπροστά μετατρέποντας δύσκολες, απαιτητικές ή συναισθηματικά φορτισμένες καταστάσεις σε μικρότερους και διαχειρίσιμους στόχους.

Βασικά στοιχεία της μεθόδου είναι η εστίαση στη Νευροδιαφορετικότητα, με κύρια εστίαση στα άτομα με νευροαναπτυξιακές διαφοροποιήσεις. Αναγνωρίζει βαθιά τις μοναδικές προκλήσεις που μπορεί να αντιμετωπίζουν στη ρύθμιση των σκέψεων, των συναισθημάτων και της καθημερινής λειτουργικότητας και προσαρμόζει την προσέγγισή της στις ανάγκες τους. Χρησιμοποιεί επιπλέον θεατρικές τεχνικές και παιχνίδι ρόλων, ως ισχυρά εργαλεία που βοηθούν τα άτομα να εξερευνήσουν και να κατανοήσουν καλύτερα τα συναισθήματα, τις συμπεριφορές και τα μοτίβα σκέψης τους μέσα σε ένα ασφαλές και δημιουργικό πλαίσιο. Υποστηρίζει τους ανθρώπους ώστε να μετατρέπουν δύσκολες ή υπερβολικά απαιτητικές καταστάσεις σε μικρότερα, εφικτά βήματα, κάνοντας την πρόοδο πιο προσιτή και ρεαλιστική.

Μέσα από τη Lotus Coaching Drama Method έχει δημιουργήσει έναν υποστηρικτικό χώρο όπου τα άτομα μπορούν να συνδέονται, να μοιράζονται εμπειρίες και να αισθάνονται ότι γίνονται κατανοητά μέσα σε μια κοινότητα αποδοχής.

Δημιουργεί εξατομικευμένα πλάνα coaching που βασίζονται στις ανάγκες, τα δυνατά σημεία και το προσωπικό αναπτυξιακό προφίλ κάθε ατόμου. Στην εργασία της ως Neuro Coach στο Lotus Neuro-Coaching, συνεργάζεται επίσης με τους ανθρώπους χρησιμοποιώντας αποκλειστικά στρατηγικές και τεχνικές coaching, πλήρως προσαρμοσμένες και εξατομικευμένες στις ανάγκες κάθε ατόμου , χωρίς τη χρήση θεατρικών εργαλείων ή της Lotus Coaching Drama Method και κάθε άνθρωπος μπορεί να επιλέξει την προσέγγιση που ταιριάζει καλύτερα στους προσωπικούς του στόχους και στις ανάγκες του.

Attilakos Giorgos is a Psychiatrist who maintains a private practice in Piraeus. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Patras and completed his specialty in Psychiatry at the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica. His practice offers a wide range of specialized services, and he has particular expertise in dementia, psychoses, and panic disorder. Furthermore, throughout his professional career, he has worked at the Nikaia Health Center, participated in the Behavioral Therapy Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Research University Institute of Mental Health (EPIΨY), as well as attending seminars on psychotherapy and pharmacology.

Ioannidou Iliana MD, MSc is a Pulmonologist - Phthisiologist - Acupuncturist and maintains a private practice in Ilioupoli. She graduated from the Medical School of the University of Crete and holds a postgraduate degree in "Lung Cancer: Modern Clinical and Laboratory Approach & Research" from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She began her specialty in Pulmonology - Phthisiology at the Lung Cancer Center of the Academic Hospital Clemenshospital in Münster, Germany, and completed it at the General Hospital for Chest Diseases of Athens "Sotiria." She specialized in Intensive Care at the University Intensive Care Unit of the General Hospital for Chest Diseases of Athens "Sotiria," where she served as an Attending Physician for 2 years. Concurrently, the doctor has been trained in Medical Acupuncture at the International Postgraduate Acupuncture Center AcuScience, under the auspices of the Hellenic Medical Acupuncture Society, as well as in Advanced and Immediate Life Support (ALS & ILS provider). She served as an Attending Physician in the Intensive Care Unit of the Athens Medical Center, while to date she remains an Attending Physician of the Pulmonology Team at the same hospital. In her private practice, she offers a wide range of services, personalized to the specific needs of each patient.