Giouli Papaioannou
Counsellor
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About me
Giouli obtained her Bachelor's Degree 8 years ago in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in the Department of Psychology. She later got accepted in King's College London , where she completed her Master's Degree in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (MSc). During her stay in London UK, she completed an Internship in an NHS CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) where she was trained in clinical interview and she provided low intensity CBT to children and adoescents, while she would also conduct parent counseling.
In 2020, she started her training in Postmodern Systemic Psychotherapies, where she gained experience through seminars and supervision to work with various mental health difficulties. In 2023, she continued her training, this time in the field of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, where she completed the 1st introductory seminar in Psychoanalytic thinking and practice, organized by the North Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society. She currently continues with the 2nd cycle of the seminars, on Psychopathology from a psychoanalytical pespective.
Giouli has a 6-year experience in working therapeutically in different contexts and with various groups. She is currently responsible for the provision of mental health support to the sudents and staff of the American College of Thessaloniki, and she also works with children, adolescents and young adults in private practice.
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Hello, I am Giouli!
I was born and raised in Greece, and I have also lived and worked in the UK and Portugal. The different working experiences and trainings I've received shaped my capacity to work with people with an international and migrational background.
In my practice, one of my main concerns is to provide a space of comfort and trust, where the person can bring in their own time and pace, the issues they feel that troubles them. Any material the person brings can be processed and have transformative results for one's life. People can bring whatever they find important, such thoughts, memories, fantasies, dreams, images, sensationss, past and current relationships, events & life transitions.
Psychotherapy sessions are structured in a 50 min time frame, with a suggested rythm of once per week. The duration of psychotherapy depends on your goals and what we may find on this journey, that it make it important for us to continue to explore.
