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Katerina Kotsoni is a Clinical Psychologist and accredited psychotherapist with many years of working in mental health in Greece and the United Kingdom.
She specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy and has been trained in Schema Therapy by Jeffrey Young, the method’s founder. For her doctoral thesis, she studied the clinical applications of Positive Psychology, a branch that focuses on a person’s positive attributes to improve their life and fill it with meaning. Additionally, she has been trained and certified in Couples Therapy by Donald H. Beaucom, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Her academic journey began in 2004 at the Psychology Department of Panteion University. She continued her studies with various post-graduate programs (MSc, PGDip, PGCert) in British educational institutions, such as the University of Reading, University College London, and the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre at Oxford University. In the United Kingdom, she studied Developmental Psychopathology and specialized in the Cognitive-Behavioral approach for children, adolescents, and adults.
While studying, she worked as a psychologist and psychotherapist in the public health sector (NHS) and organizations providing mental health services to children, adults, and vulnerable groups.
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As a therapist, she made it her priority to respond to people’s need for remote access to high-quality therapy services. Since 2014, she provided therapy sessions through video calls, gaining experience in overcoming the medium’s challenges and using it effectively to the service users’ benefit.“
In 2016, she began her private practice, providing psychotherapy services remotely and in her own space in Chalandri.
At the same time, she started her doctorate at Panteion University, her alma mater. Working under the supervision of Anastasios Stalikas, Professor of Psychology, she acquired her PhD in Clinical and Positive Psychology in 2021.
Driven by the dynamic nature of her scientific field, she keeps expanding her knowledge and staying up-to-date with contemporary psychological matters to provide her service users with the best possible treatments. She passionately follows developments regarding the third wave of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, having completed seminars on Compassion-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Mindfulness Techniques.
She has participated in many research programs, scientific publications, and psychology conferences. Since 2018, she has taught psychology and psychopathology.
She is a member of the Association of Greek Psychologists, the Greek Association of Behavioral Research, the Hellenic Association of Positive Psychology, the British Psychological Society, and the British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
She is an accredited psychotherapist by the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
