Psychoanalyst, Founder and Scientific Coordinator, Koitida.
Dr. Michaleli is a licensed psychologist with extensive experience in perinatal mental health support in the national and private health system (Athens General Children’s Hospital, “Alexandra” Hospital, Maternity Hospital “Elena Venizelou”, among others). She is a member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society (HPS), the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (SEPEA). She is also a psychosomatic psychotherapist, trained at the Paris Institute of Psychosomatics (IPSO-PARIS). Dr. Michaleli is a founding member (1993) and former president (2013-2019) of the Hellenic Society for Infant Mental Health.
Midwife – MSc in Health Crisis Management
Daliani Katerina is a Midwife-MSc in Health Crisis Management. She worked as a midwife at the Elena Venizelou Maternity Hospital and as a laboratory associate at the Obstetrics Department of the TEI of Athens (now PADA) for about 35 years. She was active with zeal in the fields related to Mother-Child-Family-Care and Education of Health Professionals during the Perinatal period. The love for the profession of midwife gave her the blessed opportunity to care for thousands of mothers – newborns and future and new parents. She believes that the Cradle is the right place to continue to do so!
Psychologist
Irini Dimopoulou was born in Athens, on September 11, 1975. She studied Psychology in Padua, Italy, specializing in clinical psychology (2002) and later obtained a postgraduate degree in Social Psychiatry from the Medical School of Ioannina (2007).
Andreana Maragou is a psychologist with clinical experience in infant and toddler mental health issues. She studied Psychology at Panteion University in Athens and then did postgraduate studies in Development and Mental Health of Infants and Children at the Tavistock Clinic in London and in Counseling Psychology (MSc). For the last 20 years he has worked in Athens and London in mental health facilities for children and adolescents. Since 2010 he maintains a private office, where he works psychotherapeutically with children, teenagers and adults. It also collaborates with nurseries and kindergartens, working with groups of educators and groups of parents around issues related to the psycho-emotional and social development of children. It is a member of the association "Our Big House", which welcomes children up to the age of four and their parents or other caregivers and operates according to the standards of the "Green House" of Françoise Dolto.
Physiotherapist NTD
Katerina Spyridaki is a physiotherapist with many years of experience in the treatment and rehabilitation of infants and children with neurological and similar conditions. She was trained at the Bobath Center in London, she has attended many seminars and trainings using the Bobath NDT method and other therapeutic approaches, such as Craniosacral therapy, Myofacial release, Visceral manipulation, Sensory Integration, etc.She has attended training to deal with “parents in crisis” Recently she was trained on the Brazelton NBAS scale. In The KOITIDA, she believes that she can offer her love and advice to babies and parents in need. She has been working as a director of therapeutic programs at Open Door since 1983 and has a private clinic for infants and children. She has been involved in adaptive activities and sports for people with disabilities and she is an international Classifier in Boccia.
Pediatric Neonatologist
Efi Stefanidou is a Pediatric Neonatologist with over twenty years of experience in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Greece. Her key responsibilities include providing medical care and support to premature and troubled newborns. At the same time, she accompanies their parents in their long and often challenging journey, recognising their unique needs. Since 2013, she has been systematically involved in supporting the mental health of infants and their mothers. She is certified in applying the NBAS scale, a tool that presents to parents their infant’s early capabilities and secures the family bond. In addition to Medicine, she holds a degree in Orthodox Theology and the Humanities from EurAka University in Switzerland. She lives in Athens and works as the Deputy Director of the Intensive Care Unit in Leto Maternity Hospital.
Psychologue clinicienne, Psychanalyste
Psychologue clinicienne, je suis diplômée d’un D.E.S.S. de Psychologie Clinique et Pathologique depuis 1988 (Université Paris VIII – Saint-Denis, 93). Très tôt, je me suis intéressée à l’approche psychanalytique via la Société Psychanalytique de Paris. J’ai complété ma formation en suivant le cursus de psychanalyste psychosomaticienne de l’École de Paris (Institut Psychosomatique de Paris-P. Marty). Je partage depuis près de vingt ans mon activité de psychologue en cabinet libéral et en institution au Centre des soins du Département de l’ASM13 Institut de Psychosomatique de Paris.
Fani Chondrou is a psychologist, a graduate of Panteion University, with a postgraduate specialization in Clinical Psychology (MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology) from the University of Sussex, Great Britain, and a PhD in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. She has completed a two-year Early Intervention Awareness course for families with children aged 0-5 years of the Hellenic Society of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She has been trained in the psychological support of children and families in serious illness and bereavement, from "Merimna", in Cognitive Psychotherapy (First Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Athens - Aeginetio Hospital), and in Trauma Therapy with the EMDR method, from the Trauma Therapy Institute. She has worked with vulnerable social groups at the Archipelagos Social Cooperative and the Babel Day Center. She maintains a private practice where she works psychotherapeutically with adolescents and adults, perinatal women, and individuals or couples who wish to have a child, are transitioning to parenthood, or have taken on the valued role of parenthood. She receives systematic supervision of her therapeutic work by a member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society.
