by Nancy Paspati
CV
“I'm Nancy! I was born and raised in Athens, to be more specific in Paleo Faliro. Since I was a little girl I was particularly interested in human behavior and the functioning of human relationships. I am a BSc Psychology graduate from the University of Wales and due to excellence I studied on scholarship at the MSc in School Psychology from Canterbury Christ Church University.
I continued my studies and I am completing a four-year training program in Systemic Psychotherapy at the Centre for Applied Psychotherapy & Counselling (C.E.PSY.SY.) in Kallithea. My goal after that, is to continue my studies further on a doctoral (PhD) level.
During my studies, I was involved in cinema therapy extracurricular group, was a founding member of a research team and actively participated in conferences.
I have worked, as part of my internship, in a neurological clinic with adults 50-90 years old for 6 months and in an early intervention program with children 2-6 years old for 4 months, completing more than 1,000 hours.
Lately I have been working in a special education centre and I maintain a private office in Kallithea where I conduct in-person and online sessions. Psychotherapeutically I work mainly with adolescents, adults, couples and families.
My philosophy is that treatment should be accessible to everyone and not considered a luxury. Mental health is of concern to all of us and affects us on a daily basis.
I hold a license to practice, attend supervision and do personal therapy myself. Personally, the need for continuing education never stops and I have attended many seminars alongside my studies.”
My approach
Systemic psychotherapy is based on systems theory (Bertalanfy, 1968) as it was applied to the field of mental health in the 1950s. It is a therapeutic approach that began as family therapy, then applied to couples and later to individuals. It is a modern scientific model of viewing and understanding reality that turns the psychological gaze from the individual to the system and from personal qualities to relationships.
A system is defined as the set of elements in interaction and interdependence. The client who is "systemically treated" by the psychotherapist is understood as a member of a network of relationships and not as an individual person. To understand this, it is enough to think about how many social groups/systems we belong to, e.g. family, work, friendships, the neighborhood we live in, etc. The systems approach tries to analyze and understand the internal organization and functioning of systems, as well as their interaction with their external environment. read more here.