Journal of Psychotherapy

Katerina Siampani was born and raised in Veria Imathias. He settled in Thessaloniki to study psychology and has never left it since then. After her studies, she worked for the National Health Center and the National Health Center in the Kalamaria branch as a professional executive, organizing and coordinating groups for teenage and adult women and counseling groups for parents with preschool, school and teenage children. At the same time, he worked in the Secretariat of the Coordinating Council of the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace for blood donation for children with Mediterranean anemia. In 1999 and 2000 she got to know Gestalt psychotherapy and began her training at the Gestalt Foundation in Thessaloniki. At the same time, she did her postgraduate in Counseling Psychology. She trained in Art-Therapy integrating her love for art into psychotherapy. He volunteered at the Association of Cancer Patients of Macedonia-Thrace with the aim of providing psychological support to people suffering from various types of cancer. From 2002-2003, he works at the Hellenic Society of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, at first voluntarily and then professionally coordinating psychological support groups for caregivers, psychotherapy groups for people with mild mental disorders and visual therapy groups for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms dementia. Since 2007, she started privatizing in her professional area "The Key", where she gives lectures, organizes self-awareness and personal development groups, experiential and educational workshops both in her professional area, as well as in institutions and municipalities. He writes for journals on psychotherapy and human relations. In 2014, her first book entitled "Walking together. Gestalt therapy in dementia'. Her interests are painting, literature, poetry, politics, music and theater.