Why should I book an appointment for a session?
See below for possible reasons for a date.
Relationship management
Relationship management requires an understanding of the dynamics between the couple, the existence of communication, the ability to resolve disagreements and confrontations as well as the feelings that exist between the two members of the couple. In my office, individual sessions are offered to people who wish to analyze their relationship as well as find solutions to the problems they face within it. In addition, couples sessions are offered in order to study in real time the dynamics of the relationship between the couple in terms of boundaries, trust, tenderness as well as feelings of one for the other.
Life Coaching and personal development
Life Coaching is a field of psychology that combines positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and neurology. Through this particular technique, the individual and the therapist can jointly create goals in various areas of life such as professional, romantic, and social, in order for the individual to evolve and develop as a personality. In my office, we can create a personalized intervention plan based on the individual's life so that it can improve slowly but steadily.
Stress Management
Stress is a reaction of the human body when it comes into contact with something for the first time, with something that is demanding or with something that is threatening. Stress can arise from any stimulus, in the person's friendship circles or in the professional field. Extensive stress can lead to unpleasant situations for each person such as emotional and physical exhaustion, work burnout, difficulty concentrating as well as dysfunctional behaviors in relation to significant others (friends, relatives, colleagues, romantic partner). Therefore, through the sessions, the therapist and the client will try to find the causes behind the stress in order to create a treatment and coping plan.
Narcissistic Disorder and victims of narcissists in relationships
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder that affects the lives of both the individuals who carry it and the lives of those around them. Individuals with narcissistic disorder are trapped in a wrong and dysfunctional lifestyle, while their victims suffer serious psychological and other consequences in their lives. In my office we examine both cases of individuals who are victims of narcissists as well as individuals with narcissistic disorder who seek and want to receive real help.
Sexual disorders and dysfunctions
Sexual disorders include a wide range of difficulties that a person may face. Specifically, the difficulties concern sexual desire (reduced or excessively increased libido), lack of sexual arousal, anorgasmia, premature ejaculation, pain without any other medical cause during sexual intercourse and erectile dysfunction. The psychological background of these disorders can be worked on in my office with each patient individually, or in cases of couples through couples therapy.
Anger Management
Anger is a normal human emotion. However, there are times when a person gets angry more times a day than they used to, and tends to break out by breaking objects or expressing their feelings to familiar and unfamiliar people. This situation hides something pathological or unresolved from a psychological perspective. The person may suffer from a chronic illness, may feel more pressure at the office and at work, may be subject to hormonal changes due to age. Many things can happen. The point is to find the causes behind the anger and, through treatment, to help the person calm down and gain a better quality of life.
Abuse
Abuse is the inappropriate behavior of one person towards another person. Abuse can be either intentional (i.e. there is an intention to harm the other person), or unintentional (there is no intention behind the harm). But beyond the intention, abuse leaves deep marks on people's souls. In my office we work with cases of psychological abuse of individuals, in a work, social, family and romantic context.
Injuries
Psychological trauma can be caused by an event or a series of events in a person's life that directly or indirectly affected them. The categories of psychological trauma that exist are acute trauma (caused by a single stressful event), chronic trauma (resulting from repeated exposure of the person to stressful or traumatic events), complex trauma (resulting when the person has been exposed to multiple traumatic events during their life) and secondary trauma (the person develops symptoms of trauma due to contact with the traumas of third parties). The existence of trauma in the person results in many emotional difficulties such as anxiety, depression, anger, irritability, feelings of threat and tendencies to isolate the person. In addition, the existence of trauma results in the occurrence of physical symptoms such as fatigue and sleep problems. Trauma also causes behavioral changes such as eating habits, addictions, and in some cases self-harm.
Self-confidence and self-image
Self-image is the image that a person has of themselves. In other words, how the person characterizes themselves (for example, they may characterize them as beautiful or ugly). Self-image is important because it influences the person both in terms of clothing choices, as well as in terms of the choices of the social circle and the social roles that they wish to adopt. A person's self-image is inextricably linked to their self-confidence, that is, their subjective opinion of themselves. Self-confidence and the way a person sees themselves can deeply influence them in matters of relationships with other people, interactions with their social and family environment, but also in life choices. In my office, we attempt to help people with low self-confidence and negative self-image in order to claim better living conditions but also to live more beautifully as individuals without the burden of the negative emotions that they create.
Depression
Depression is a general term that refers to various mood disorders that affect a person's life. Symptoms of depression include changes in sleep patterns, lack of energy, losing interest in activities that used to bring them joy, a constant feeling of unworthiness, thoughts of death and suicide. All of these are common symptoms of depression. In our offices, therefore, we attempt to analyze the feelings of the person with depression, their thoughts, as well as the creation of routines with the help of CBT in order to shift their attention from negative thought patterns to more positive and beneficial ones for themselves.
Exam Anxiety
Exam anxiety is common to all people, whether they are competing in the Panhellenic exams or in the exams of each University school. At our offices, we prepare psychologically as well as deal with anxiety in a more general context in high school students and students through cognitive behavioral therapy in order to be able to better cope with the challenge they have to face as well as to feel more confident about their abilities at the time of the exam.