Mariza Christodoulou

I have been practicing counseling and psychotherapy for more than 10 years. Through these years I have assisted people to both change unhelpful patterns in their life and relationships and to gain insight in their personal history. I have acquired experience in helping people with childhood abuse, trauma and neglect, depression, relationship problems, anger management, eating disorders, grief and loss, anger, domestic violence issues and compulsive behavioral problems. I have also been working with clients who wished to understand themselves better by embarking on a journey towards self-discovery and others who sought a more healthy and balanced life. My education and practice in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy has provided me with a more free, flexible and holistic method to work with people who have specific needs or desires and to address their multifaceted experience (functioning, affective, behavioral, cognitive and somatic) as a whole. It is a complete and comprehensive method based on integration of theories that allows me to be creative and authentic for actively exploring the phenomenological view of the client's internal (psychological processes) and external world (family, socio-cultural context) using specific techniques and key concepts drawn in from various approaches. To this end and throughout my studies I have integrated many views of human personality, functioning and behavior such as humanistic and existential, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, Gestalt, TA and family/systemic therapy. These approaches help me gain insight into human behavior and a unique understanding of key factors that can result (or not) in cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes. I also integrate other therapeutic approaches like IFS therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, inner child work, focusing process and repressed emotions work.