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.
Speech and Language Therapist
Evi Ashley is a Speech and Language Therapist. She graduated from the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Peloponnese and holds a Master’s Degree in "Communication Disorders Science" from the University of Macedonia. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education at the University of West Attica, where she has been an academic and reciprocal scholarship recipient, undertaking teaching, clinical, and research work. She works in private practice and possesses years of clinical experience in managing children with neurodevelopmental disorders, feeding difficulties, and language delays. She has received extensive training in specialized therapeutic programs for early intervention and infant and toddler mental health.Her research interest focuses on the early development of communication and language skills in early childhood. Her scientific work includes publications, as well as numerous oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences. Additionally, she is an active member of the Panhellenic Association of Logopedists – Speech Therapists (P.S.L.) and participates in the Special Interest Group for Bilingualism and Multilingualism.
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.
Child Psychologist
Christiana Martinou is a child psychologist who lives and works in Corfu, Greece. She studied Psychology (BSc) at Swansea University in Wales and completed postgraduate studies in Child Psychology (MA) at the same university. She also holds a Master of Science (MSc) in “Perinatal Mental Health and Mental Wellbeing” from the University of Essex, in collaboration with Aegean College. She has completed the Advanced Training Program for Perinatal and Infant Health Professionals offered by the KOITIDA Institute, and she continues to participate in professional supervision groups. She also holds the title of “Pregnancy Dialogues Facilitator” awarded by APPPAH (Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health). She has been working in private practice since 2006, focusing primarily on parent counseling, individual psychotherapy for children, individual psychotherapy for perinatal cases, and group support for pregnant women and new mothers. She is trained in the administration of certified psychometric assessment tools related to areas such as child psychopathology, developmental disorders, learning difficulties and intelligence assessment, school readiness, and vocational guidance for adolescents. Since 2023, she has been teaching in the Lifelong Learning Program (KEDIVIM) of the Ionian University, in the program titled “Piano Pedagogy and Contemporary Approaches,” where she teaches topics related to Developmental, Educational, and Positive Psychology.
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.
