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Welcome to the team of mental health professionals!

Maria Griva is located in Athens, Gerakas. She attends individuals in individual, couple and group sessions every day. She provides psychotherapy, couple and marriage counseling, family therapy, as she is a certified family therapist.

Individual Therapy for Adults

Couples Counseling

Family Therapy

Diagnosis & Treatment of Children/Adolescents

Psychologist, Child Psychologist, Family Therapist
Maria Griva

Welcome!! I am Maria Griva! I am a graduate of the Psychology Program at the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy, and Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a first-class child psychologist from the University of Central Lancashire, as well as a graduate of the School of Business and Economics of the University of Patras.

I specialize in the Systemic Family approach in individual, group, couple, and family psychotherapy at the Laboratory for the Exploration of Human Relations and in Systemic Psychological Diagnosis and Evaluation.
I have trained in Couple Therapy – (SANE Clinical Program – System Attachment Narrative Encephalon) at “Logou Psychis” – Institute for Education and Research in Systemic Psychotherapy in Athens.
I have also attended specialized training in Vocational Guidance from ISON PSYCHOMETRICA.
I have participated in a program for Trainers – Coordinators of Parent Schools, based on Maria Chourdaki’s “Evolutionary System.”

I work privately in Gerakas, providing counseling and psychotherapy services to children and adults, diagnostic evaluation, assistance with everyday difficulties, career guidance, and psychological assessment.

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My colleagues are experienced professionals who share the same vision for promoting mental health and personal development. Together, we create a network of trust and support, providing comprehensive solutions tailored to the needs of each individual.

Maria Griva

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Together, we build a better version of yourself.

Maria Griva

Remote Counseling and Psychotherapy

My colleagues are experienced professionals who share the same vision for promoting mental health and personal development. Together, we create a network of trust and support, providing comprehensive solutions tailored to the needs of each individual. Remote counseling and psychotherapy leverage the possibilities offered by technology for further development, evolution, and introspection. Remote counseling and psychotherapy have several advantages over other forms of counseling and psychotherapy.
Currently offered:
Individual sessions lasting 50 minutes for children and/or adults, or couples or family sessions remotely via video calls (Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet) with the psychologist/psychotherapist of your choice.
Process: The interested party must have internet access and a video call account on Skype, Zoom, Messenger, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Viber, or Google Meet. After contacting me via email (info@psychologos-paidopsychologos.gr), the day and time of the online meeting with the psychologist/psychotherapist of your choice will be set. The interested party must pay the amount of 80 euros to the account GR8401406820682002101073141 (Alpha Bank) or another agreed-upon account and send a payment notification via email 24 hours before the scheduled session. A service receipt will be sent to the individual at the provided details. If the individual wishes to remain anonymous, the receipt will be issued anonymously. If the individual has booked a video call session, prepaid, and is unable to contact me or the chosen collaborator at the agreed time, a new appointment can be arranged if notified at least 24 hours before the scheduled session. Otherwise, the session will be charged as completed.
Additionally, individual supervision sessions (50 minutes) with me, Maria Griva, are available for mental health professionals via Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger, Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
Process: After contacting me via email (info@psychologos-paidopsychologos.gr), the date and time of the session will be set. The interested party must pay the amount of 80 euros to the account GR8401406820682002101073141 (Alpha Bank) or another agreed-upon account and send a payment notification via email 24 hours before the scheduled session. A service receipt will be sent to the individual at the provided details. If the individual wishes to remain anonymous, the receipt will be issued anonymously. If the individual has booked a session, prepaid, and is unable to contact me at the agreed time, a new appointment can be arranged if notified at least 24 hours before the scheduled session. Otherwise, the session will be charged as completed.
Advantages of Remote Counseling and Psychotherapy:
The client decides how often and how much time to dedicate to remote counseling and psychotherapy.
The client has control over the information they wish to communicate, with the option to make changes to electronic messages before sending them.
The client can communicate with the counselor from anywhere as long as they have internet access. Remote counseling and psychotherapy are particularly helpful for those unable to visit a counselor in person due to illness, mobility issues, living outside Athens, or tight schedules.
Remote counseling and psychotherapy are more affordable than traditional face-to-face meetings with a counselor or psychotherapist.
Some people feel more comfortable seeking psychological help anonymously and impersonally at first.
Expressing difficulties and describing one’s situation to a third party can, by itself, help disentangle the problem and bring new perspectives.
As psychologists and psychotherapists, we help each individual, child, couple, or family seeking psychological support to realize their potential, explore, and find better alternatives and solutions in their lives. We are a team of professionals, licensed to practice, and strictly adhere to the ethical codes of conduct of psychologists' associations. We are all in continuous supervision and long-term therapeutic work. We organize, participate in, or hold educational seminars and conferences in Greece and abroad. We are a skilled scientific team with professional experience and a deep respect for helping each person who seeks our assistance to connect with their difficulties, understand how they feel, communicate their issues more healthily, legitimize their feelings, and gradually improve their lives.
You can take your time, explore, and carefully study each mental health professional and choose the one who feels right for you and who inspires trust and safety to begin your beautiful therapeutic journey. Remember, a long journey begins with a small step.

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Online or In-Person Group Psychotherapy

An individual who has become familiar with and trusts the therapeutic process through individual sessions can continue their psychotherapy process by joining a therapeutic group. This usually happens when the relationship with their therapist has reached a point where it inspires trust and when the main issues they wish to work on have been identified.
Therapeutic groups meet once a week for two hours, are open to new members (usually not exceeding 10 people), and are led by a therapist.
They are based on the principles of confidentiality and respect for the diversity of others and operate with specific boundaries and rules that promote the safety of members and the development of their potential through interaction with others.
The therapeutic group is expected to be a safe space where people with different histories and varying requests for help can benefit from interaction with each other, learning to relate to the people in their lives outside the group in ways that are satisfying and meet their needs.
In the therapeutic group, each member has the right to speak about any issue that concerns them and to the extent that they wish. It is helpful for the therapeutic process that members, with the facilitation of the therapists, share the thoughts and emotions that arise within the therapeutic group, avoiding criticism.
The benefits of group psychotherapy are many.
By participating in a therapeutic group, individuals discover that others share similar feelings and experiences, which dispels the sense of uniqueness of their problems, bringing relief and encouraging connection with others. Newer members of the therapeutic group, when they come into contact with more experienced members who have progressed in their key issues thanks to therapy, feel hope for their own process, reducing fear or the negative belief that “things do not change.”
In group therapy, members take turns the role of both receiving and giving support, increasing the sense that they are important not only because they receive support and acceptance from others but also because their participation in the process is crucial for others.
Thus, through feedback, participants gain greater self-awareness, improve their connection to their emotions, and communicate them with greater clarity. They also develop greater empathy by understanding themselves better. Members of a therapeutic group increase their knowledge of mental functioning, the meaning of symptoms, and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
The therapeutic group, functioning as a “social microcosm and life school,” can offer corrective emotional experiences and change dysfunctional interaction patterns between individuals and their environment. Thus, within an atmosphere of confidentiality, acceptance, open communication, and respect, each individual can take personal responsibility and seek healthier ways of communicating with themselves and others.

All our activities are governed by the ethical principles of the profession of mental health counselor, psychologist, and psychotherapist.

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Individual Online or In-Person Counseling or Psychotherapy Session

Each client begins with individual sessions, which last 50 minutes. The frequency of these sessions can be weekly or bi-weekly. The duration depends on the needs of the client and the goals they set together with the therapist. Often, individual sessions involve psychological work through interventions that help the person connect the difficulties and symptoms they are experiencing, understand the dynamics of the relationships they maintain, and begin to manage their issues, desires, and goals more consciously and effectively, gradually improving their life.

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Couples Sessions

Online couples sessions are aimed at couples who want to be together more healthily and functionally or wish to separate in a manner that is not painful or traumatic. In the therapeutic process, couples have the opportunity to explore issues concerning their relationship to gain a deeper understanding of the ways they communicate and handle crises and conflicts. During the dialogue about emotions, beliefs, and expectations of one another, the therapist encourages each partner to observe themselves, speak about themselves, and share what they feel and need. In this way, the tendency for couples to try to change each other, to project the negative aspects of the relationship onto the other, and to hold the other responsible for any changes is minimized. In close romantic relationships and marriages, individuals unconsciously revive past traumas, fears, and painful emotions from their family of origin. Therefore, each partner needs to become aware of the unconscious dynamics that they bring into the relationship and project onto their partner so they can recognize which emotions belong to the “past” and not the “present” of the relationship. Through this process, couples therapy promotes personal self-awareness and the taking of personal responsibility for the desired change. Also, as partners get to know each other better, they increase their ability to accept each other’s differences, understand each other’s sensitive points, and care for them rather than activating them with provocative behaviors. Thus, through strengthening open communication, emotional expression, and personal responsibility, the relationship becomes a space for personal development, allowing and promoting intimacy, connection, appreciation, trust, and safety. The sessions are weekly or bi-weekly and last 50 minutes. The duration of therapy is determined by the couple’s request and the therapist’s perspective, as the therapist and couple together design a therapy plan that is reassessed according to the goals they have set.

Network of Specialized Collaborators

Our partners are experienced professionals who share our vision for promoting mental health and personal development. Together, we create a network of trust and support, providing comprehensive solutions that meet each individual's needs.

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Katerina Papanikolaou

Child Psychologist, Psychotherapist for Adolescents and Adults Born and raised in Corfu. Her personal experiences and diverse academic background allowed her to work and develop in the field of psychology, counseling, and psychotherapy, a field in which she has invested her strengths with great dedication for several years.

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Vasiliki Moirisklavou 

M.Sc. Clinical Psychologist - Systemic Psychotherapist Born in Corfu, living and working in Athens. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology at Aegean College (Bachelor of Psychology Science). She has postgraduate studies in Clinical Psychology from the University of Essex. During her postgraduate studies, she practiced as a Clinical Psychologist at the Psychiatric Hospital of Athens (Dromokaiteio). Her psychotherapeutic training is in the systemic-family model of psychotherapy at the Laboratory for the Exploration of Human Relations. She works therapeutically and consultatively with adults and adolescents in individual sessions.

Katie Kyriakidou

MSc, PGDip, Psychologist – Psychotherapist Katie Kyriakidou, MSc, PGDip, is a Psychologist – Psychotherapist. She has trained in Counseling Psychology and Health Psychology, including providing psychological therapies. She offers CBT and psychodynamic therapy to clients in the community, the criminal justice system, universities, and NHS professionals. More recently, she has provided CBT and psychodynamic therapy to private clients and taught at colleges. She is known for innovation, organization, time efficiency, strong communication skills, and crisis management in high-risk situations.

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Anastasia Dovou

Psychologist - Systemic Psychotherapist Born and raised in Corfu. She graduated from the Department of Psychology at the University of Crete and completed her internship at a homeless shelter in Dublin, Ireland (DePaul Ireland). Upon returning to Greece, she worked in the field of addiction (18Ano) and later with refugees, primarily with adolescents (European Expression). Currently, she works therapeutically with children, adolescents, and adults and consultatively with parents. She is also in advanced training in the Synthetic model of Systemic Therapy at the Laboratory for the Exploration of Human Relations.