About Nina | Expat therapist Brussels Belgium
Hi there!
I’m Nina and I’m an expat psychologist here in Belgium.
As a kid, I would always find myself surrounded by people who opened up and shared with me their stories, their deep feelings and emotions and afterward they would report feeling lighter and more empowered. With this feedback in mind and after spending years working on my own traumas and emotional pain-bodies, I decided to listen to my intuition and follow my passion to listen and coach people professionally. That’s what took me into Psychology.
I got my BA degree in Psychology at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (Greece) and then I decided to continue with a M.Sc. in Human Sexuality Studies (obtained by the KULeuven University in Leuven, Belgium).
To cover the “whole circle of life” and to explore a bit more extensively my curiosity and genu-ine interest on “death and dying”, I decided to continue my postgraduate studies with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and more specifically in Palliative Care. I received my PhD degree in 2018 at the KU Leuven University in Belgium and the output of my 4-year research can be found in online published manuscripts.
Alongside my studies, I received professional certified training in Mind-Body Therapy with Dr M. Gallagher, Dr C. Caldwell, Dr S. Lyons, Dr R. Johnson and Dr A. Wong, a certified training in Emotionally Focused Therapy with Dr S. Johnson and a certified training in Reflective Functioning Coding the Anna Freud Center (London, UK).
As part of my life-long learning curriculum, I have also completed educational certified trainings in the fields of Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness and Inner Child Psychology and I have been supervised by top experts in these fields majority of them located in Boston (MA).
I’m a licensed psychologist in Greece and in Belgium and a member of the Panhellenic Psychological Association and the Belgian Commission of Psychologists. I typically work as an expat trauma therapist in the broader area of Brussels here in Belgium providing therapy to the international community both in English and Greek.