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I am Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Trainer and Supervisor. I work as Clinical Psychologist for a day center hospital for severe mental diseases and in private practice. Furthermore, I work as a Trainer and Supervisor under the European Association of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychological Center of Chania.

I have completed:
*Two year training in Supervision (European Association of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy,UK)
*Two year training in Training “Train the Trainer (European Association of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, UK)
*Five year training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy/ Object Relations Institute, NY, USA)
*Four year training in Group, Family and Couple Therapy (Institute of Family Therapy and University of Crete, Medical School, Systemic Training, Crete, GR)
*Three year training in Rational Emotive & Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy (Albert Ellis Institute, NY, USA)
*(CRM)Comprehensive Resource Model (Basic I, Basic II) (Institute of Trauma Therapy, Athens, GR)
*(CRM) Comprehensive Resource Model(Advanced Core Self) Lisa Schwarz
*(EMDR) Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (Institute of Trauma Therapy, Athens, GR)

Mini Bio in English:

Konstantza Maniatopoulou was born and raised in Patras, Greece. Drawn to the arts and nature, seeking for truth, she studied Psychology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, attained a MA in Drama and Movement Therapy (Sesame) from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and a PGDip Spiritual Guidance Through Transpersonal Dreamwork from the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education in London. In the meantime she also got into Kundalini Yoga and Core Shamanism completing respective trainings in India, Greece and the UK. Through her work she has obtained a wide experience working with people of all ages and with various issues. Since October 2013, she has returned to Patras, where she holds a private psychotherapy practice and teaches Yoga.

In 2019, a new thirst for learning led her to become a Supervisor (Diploma in Creative Arts Supervision Training, RCSSD, University of London), complete the Basic training in the Comprehensive Resource Model for treating trauma (with Lisa Schwarz in Oct 2019, London), and embarked into Gottman’s Couple’s Therapy Training (online courses).

After my Professional Dance studies in Greece I attained a Post-graduate Diploma and then Master’s Degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) at the Laban Centre/City University in London (1998-2002). In the UK I taught Laban Movement Analysis at the Laban Center and the Metropolitan University (London) in 2001-03. I have being working in Athens, in private practice since 2003, with people who suffer from psychosomatic symptoms, personality disorders, developmental trauma, C-PTSD and depression.  I have enriched my practice with seminars at the Vegetotherapy and Character Analysis at the ‘Wilhelm Reich’ Centre in Athens and I use Vegetotherapy as a tool to build resources in order for the person to strengthen his/her ability to deal with stress. I trained in CRM in 2018 (Basic with Domna Ventouratou & Advanced/Core Self with Lisa Schwarz). In 2018 two books of mine were published, an autobiographic psychological novel (on accessing and healing dissociated parts of the Self) and a scientific guide in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (first ever published in Greek language) by Angelakis Publications, Athens, Greece. I am receiving CRM sessions myself regularly and I attend group supervision sessions, monthly, in Athens with Domna Ventouratou.

In my practice I use CRM to treat people with developmental trauma, in-the-womb trauma and generational trauma but also as the basic tool for healing and reaching the full potential of the person seeking help. My long previous experience with Dance as Art and Dance Movement Psychotherapy, I have a deep understanding of how the body expresses emotions through movement in a subtle way, I very much attend to the non-verbal communications and I am trained to draw further information about the person from body movement as well as his/her character type according to Reichian Character Analysis and attend to his/her developmental needs.

Specialties:

Anxiety, PTSD, Stress, Trauma