At heart….

I just love children…

I love their energy, their innocence, their purity. I want to understand them, support them, play with them, love them all. I learn so much from them, I heal, and I allow my inner child to be free and playful.

I can easily get into their shoes, and see their point of view. Whan they allow me to enter their world I grow and feel the energy of life again.

I also am in awe of the love parents have for their children. Whatever their approach, struggles, challenges, mistakes, shame and guilt, they absolutely love their children. Often they come to me, helpless, lost, confused, and often with their own pain from the past blocking them to have the relationship they want with their children. I find my role so rewarding, to hold them by the hand and gently, with lots of compassion help them to connect with their children and their own parenting identity.

I am playful with an open heart and a great understanding of all parents. The first thing I want to do when a parent comes to me, is to help them feel safe to just be themselves, because only then they can relax and find their own inner truth. Parents are so important and they have so little support from the society, I hope that my help makes them feel less alone in their efforts.

My journey…

I'm Angelos' mom since 2010, I'm from Athens but I've been living in Kos for the last few years.

As a new mother after the birth of my son, I was faced with daily decisions, conflicts, doubts and while I thought I had an initial plan based on what I knew from my surroundings, my relatives and my own experiences, things did not go exactly as I thought. I struggled with what was right or wrong, I was triggered often (still am but less often), I was so tired and often felt guilty, ashamed and powerless.

I had my instincts guiding me though and I decided to learn and become more informed. And then a new world opened up for me. I discovered that I can be myself with my child, I can understand him better, I can finally feel free in our relationship, not always ,but more often.

I quit my previous, long time, job as a software engineer and decided to receive training on child development and parenting support. And that was the best decision of my life.

I firmly believe that parents don’t have the support, understanding, compassion and guidance they need to become their wise, confident selves and enjoy their parenting and their children. Especially in the western society they are left alone to struggle while everyone has enormous expectations on them to be perfect. That is why I decided to help parents and not work with children.

In 2016 I completed my year long training in Parent Coaching in the Parent Coaching Institute and I have been a parent coach since then.

In February 2021 I completed my training in Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry approach and I am now a Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner. A training that helps me work with triggered parents whose past or trauma is affecting their parenting.

At the same time I am also training to be a child psychologist in the ICPS College of Athens and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Somatic Experiencing Greece

I work with parents online, individually, as couples and in groups.

My training

I am a verocious reader and I just love learning. My partner is always expecting me to announce my next training when I finish my last one! I always promise him that this is going to be my last one, even if I don’t really believe it deep down! For anyone who wants to know my training credentials (and has read that far!) I have decided to add them below.

  • Certified Parent Coach by the Parent Coaching Institution in collaboration with Pacific University of Seattle.

  • Certified Positive Parent Educator by the Positive Parenting Discipline Association

  • Certified Attachment Parenting Educator by the Attachment Parenting International Organization of US

  • Certified Trainer of Parent Effectiveness Training by Gordon Hellas.

  • Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner in Dr Gabor Mate 's trauma training.

  • Instructor at the Parent Coaching Institute since 2017

  • Compassionate Inquiry Intern for the third year in the Compassionate Inquiry Training Course

  • Studying the postgraduate course in Child Psychology from ICPS College.

  • Studying Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing model on trauma by Somatic Experiencing Greece.

  •  Internal Family Systems informed  by the IFS Institute.

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

  • "Managing Separation - Parent Divorce". 

  • "Education in Childhood and Adolescence"

  • "Recognizing Children's Emotions - Empathy"

    "Counselling Psychology in Education and Children".

    Gordon Neufeld Institute

  • Neufeld Intensive I: "Making Sense of Kids"

  • Neufeld Intensive II: "The Separation Complex

  • "Adolescence"

  • "Adolescence and Sexuality"

  • "Alpha Children"

  • "Attachment Puzzle"

  • Power to Parent: The Vital Connection

  • Power to Parent: Helping Children Grow Up

  • Power to Parent: Common Challenges

  • "Becoming Attached"

  • "Bullies."

  • "Digital World"

  • "Resilience"

  • "Separation Complex"

  • "Teachability"

  • "The Science of Emotion"

  • "Transplanting Children"

  • "Making Sense of Aggression"

  • "Making Sense of Anxiety"

  • "Making Sense of Counterwill"

  • "Making Sense of Preschoolers"

    "Making Sense of Attention Problems

    Dr Daniel Siegel's Mindsight Institute

  • "Brainstorm Intenstive - A Practical Guide for keeping the adolescent brain in mind"

  • "Interpersonal Neurobiology Package for Parents"

  • "Parenting from the Inside Out - Course for Mental Health Professionals"

    "Presence Integration and the Cultivation of Well Being in Relationships and Family Systems"

    Internal Family Systems Institute

  • "Coaching for Self Leadership: An Introduction to Internal Family Systems"

  • "IFS Online Circle: Foundations of the IFS Model