Eleftheria Panteliou
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist & Psychologist
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About me
I have over ten years of experience in hospital, forensic, and community settings, providing psychotherapy, supervision, and reflective work with individuals and professional groups. My work is rooted in psychodynamic thinking and is trauma-informed, integrating elements of Mentalization-Based treatment to support understanding of emotions, relationships, and patterns of regulation. My approach offers a respectful and collaborative space to explore emotional experience, meaning, and connection.
I work therapeutically with adults individually, and with groups, offering psychodynamic psychotherapy in both Greek and English.
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Approach
I have a particular sensitivity to the experience of living “in between” — between languages, cultures, and different self-states. I view therapy as a stable and safe space where experiences can be explored, linked, and made sense of. The work is fundamentally psychodynamic and trauma-informed, emphasising unconscious processes, repetitive relational patterns, dreams, and bodily responses.
I believe that symptoms are not merely problems to be fixed but carriers of meaning — ways in which the psyche tries to protect and communicate itself.
With extensive experience in working with trauma and intense emotional states, I pay special attention to the relationship between emotion, the body, and the nervous system. In therapy, we work not only with narrative but also with how the body “speaks”: tension, freezing, fatigue, or disconnection. These responses are not weaknesses, but survival mechanisms.
My training in Mentalization-Based approaches supports this work by helping people understand their feelings without being overwhelmed by them, and by facilitating meaning-making in relational contexts.
