LIFE GUIDANCE TODAY - KARTHERINA THERAPY CENTRE````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

For the last 29 years, I have been working in Cyprus privately in my office «Life Guidance Today / Kartherina Therapy Centre» and voluntarily, as a Counselling Psychologist-Psychotherapist, Solution Focus Brief Practitioner, Family and Couple Therapist, Coach of Life, the Family and Work, Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders and Obesity, Non-Formal Learning Practitioner and Trainer, Tool Innovator and Trainer, Speech and Language Pathologist, Alternative Medicine Therapist and First Aid at Work Trainer. Over the years I have worked and co-operated with a number of Hospitals and Schools and other Professionals. I have always been involved in voluntary work and lately more in youth and adult work – from primary education to adolescent, youth, older adults, their families and their local society - and adult group training for personal and work awareness and development, and awareness and development as a local society.

In my private practice, I have been working with children, adolescent and adults, individually and in small groups with children and bigger groups with adults, in all areas of my expertise. I combine my work in the various areas of expertise - that are both independent of each other, but also pretty related to directly related with each other in a lot of cases, especially in the case of adolescent and adults - according to the Unique picture of problems and capabilities/special talents , presented by Children, Adolescent,Youth, Older Adults and their Families or Spouses. Since March 2013, I started a Programme on Life and Family Coaching incito, "in-the-home-where-it-all-takes-place", as well as incito Work Coaching at the work place. The last few years I also teach First aid at Work to adult groups of all ages and professions.

I have always been working through games and various tools I developed, or developed further, with all age groups in both individual and group work! Thinking about new and innovating ways, how to use a toy or a game, or develop a new tool that would be an innovative and supportive tool, as to how to present new knowledge or help people be more aware of themselves, their abilities and disabilities, their assets for improvement, self awareness, self confidence, self development and becoming more aware of the truth for the self and others an society and what is important for each Individual and Family and how he/she could best deal with their problems, in an innovative and expanding/developing way - has always been and is, the main part of my work in my private office and in my voluntary work! Getting people to be more accepting of themselves and others with the whole package each person is characterized by, because of many reasons and causes, has always been central in my work and my life!

Both in my private practice and voluntary work, I work with mild to severe everyday problems, to mild to severe pathological problems of the individual, the family and the local community. I see people for personal and work development of all ages, profession and social status, in adolescence and adulthood. I offer experiential workshops with the main aim the awareness and development of life and personal competences, directing my work in awareness, expression and development/expanding the spectrum of our knowledge, abilities, attitudes, feelings of the self and others in the group/the society/other countries; developing the ability to make space in one’s life to include oneself and others, whomever or whatever I or them maybe in life, work, society; strengthen awareness and the ability to use and to build on all learning experience, whether educational (formal or non-formal) or life experience!.........

In my formal and voluntary work I give discussion talks to groups mainly from vulnerable, rural areas with serious problems of discrimination and individualization, people with less opportunities and great difficulty in adjusting to changes in the society and life. I also work with training youth leaders and training parents as youth and society guides/trainers/leaders. In our talks and discussions, we touch various subjects aimed at personal development, empowerment, getting useful information for and being more aware of the family and children, developing coping strategies in dealing with crisis in the person, the family, life and society, as well as at work, developing a hopeful way of thinking that will enable them to be more aware and more active as people, adolescent and adults, as parents supporting their children of all ages, as families and as a society, claiming their rights and reacting to old and wrong ways of thinking and practices in the family and the local society level, but also the extended society, etc. – using mainly Solution Focus Brief Practice Hopeful Thinking and Attitude for the Future and Non-Formal Learning, using the 6/8 Key Competencies for Lifelong Learning (Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of -18 December 2006) 1. Communication in the mother tongue –
a)The ability to express thoughts, feelings
and facts in words (oral/written)
b)To be able to interact linguistically in the
appropriate way
2. Communication in foreign languages –
a)The ability to express and understand in a
foreign language according to your
needs
b)A positive attitude towards cultural
differences and diversity
c)Curiosity in languages and intercultural
communication
3. Learning to learn –
a)How to organize your own learning
b)To be able to deal with obstacles
c)Being responsible for your own learning
d)To evaluate/assess the outcomes of your
learning
4. Interpersonal, Intercultural and Social and
civic competences –
a)The ability to communicate in a proper way
with friends, family and colleagues
b)To be able to deal with people from all
kind of different backgrounds
c)To be able to deal in a constructive way
with conflicts
d)Knowledge about what is going on in your
village, city, country, Europe and the world
e)Knowledge of concepts/ideas of
democracy/citizenship/civil rights
f)Your participation in civil life
5. Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship –
a)The ability to turn ideas into action
b)To be creative and innovative
c)To dare to take risks
d)Project management
6. Cultural awareness and expression –
a)To appreciate the importance of creative
expression of ideas, experiences and
emotions
b)Everything which has to do with media,
music, performing arts, literature and visual
arts

I have always been working in the Greek and English Language with equal competence, with not only Greek Cypriots but many other Nationalities as well, coming from various Social and Financial Backgrounds, with a big diversity in Age, Gender, Religion, Ethics, Values, Everyday-Living Truth and Priorities of Survival, as a person or as a family and as a local Society as well!!!...........