Online psychotherapy in Greek,
support for Greeks abroad

Life abroad has its gifts — and its own, often invisible, weight. Adjusting to a new culture. The loneliness that appears unexpectedly, even when "everything is going well." The distance from people you love, the guilt and the expectations that travel with you, the sense of belonging a little here and a little there — and sometimes nowhere entirely.

However well you speak the language of the country where you live, emotions have a mother tongue. In therapy, the words we choose matter — and not having to translate yourself makes the process deeper and freer. This is true whether you left Greece a few years ago or grew up abroad in a Greek family: therapy in Greek is about the language your feelings speak.

Many Greeks living abroad describe an experience of conflict and of difficulty belonging: Greece remains emotionally significant and familiar, while their country of residence becomes the place of everyday life, work, and financial security. Over time, however, the sense may emerge that they belong fully to neither place. When they return to Greece, they often feel that some things have changed, or that they themselves have changed. When they are in the country where they live, they may feel that they remain, to some degree, foreigners.

Adjusting to a different cultural context is not only about language or the practical difficulties of daily life. It involves new ways of communicating, different social values, other understandings of relationships, family, and community, as well as the need to reshape one's sense of who we are within this new context. This experience can be accompanied by a feeling of unfamiliarity, as if there is no longer a place that is experienced as entirely our own and safe.

Psychotherapy is not defined by the place where it is held, but by the quality of the relationship that develops within it — a space where all of these experiences can find room: homesickness and loss, adjustment and change, multiple identities, the search for belonging, and the effort to create a sense of "home," an inner sense of safety that does not depend solely on a place but can be cultivated within the therapeutic relationship, with oneself and with others.

Sessions take place online, via video call, with a regular weekly appointment — or adapted to your schedule when your working hours are irregular, including Saturdays — that suits your time zone, whether you live in London, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Amsterdam, Brussels, or across the Atlantic. Confidentiality and the framework are exactly the same as for in-person sessions.

I am a psychologist and Gestalt psychotherapist based in Greece, and I work with an emphasis on the relationship and the "here and now." Common themes in my work with people of the diaspora: loneliness and isolation far from a support network; anxiety and professional burnout; guilt and boundaries with family in Greece from a distance; homesickness and the dilemma of staying or returning; identity and a sense of belonging between two cultures; and major transitions without a familiar network — relocation, career, motherhood.