In short Online therapy in English in Greece: individual and couples sessions over secure video, scheduled across time zones. Psychodynamic depth work with a US-trained therapist. You pay directly, so nothing runs through local insurance or health records. Fees and fit are covered in a free 15-minute call.

The work

The work I do is relational and focused on pattern. I don't run intake checklists. I don't assign homework. I pay attention to what happens in the session. The moments when something shifts or goes flat. The pattern that keeps showing up underneath the problem. Most people already know their own story. They still keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time, someone who can name what you cannot see from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.

What people bring to online therapy

The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.

How it works

Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.

Therapy in English is thin on the ground in Greece. Athens has some options; outside Athens it's rare. Put a beautiful setting next to a real shortage of depth support, and many English speakers here end up with no support at all.

I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in Greece. Relationship difficulties, a low you can't quite name, something from the past, something present.

Beauty is not a solution to anything. It's a great backdrop for working on things, though.

Being in Greece

Greece has a warmth that's real, and a particular quality for non-Greeks. Welcoming at the surface, and quite hard to enter at depth. The life can be genuinely good, the weather, the pace, the beauty. But the belonging takes much longer than any of that suggests.

If what you're carrying has any of that quality to it, we can work with it. If what brings you is something else entirely, that's fine.

What I add to that market

I am a US-trained therapist working online and privately, fully outside the Greek system. No EOPYY. No Greek records. No referral needed. For the Athens international crowd the practical case is depth work in native English with someone whose entire practice is people living outside their home country, including the specific texture of the trailing-spouse and golden-visa situations Greece now collects.

Athens, the islands, and the seasonal problem

Athens holds nearly everything: the embassies, the multinationals in Marousi, the digital nomads in Koukaki and Pangrati. Thessaloniki has a smaller scene. The islands have a particular rhythm, intoxicating in season and isolating from November to April, and the people who winter on them tend to discover which one they actually signed up for. Online work does not care which month it is.

Country details last reviewed June 2026.

Greek mental healthcare after the long crisis

Greece's public system (ESY, with EOPYY as the payer) covers psychiatric care, and public mental health services exist through hospital departments and community mental health centers. But the system never fully recovered from the austerity decade: staffing is thin, waits are long, services concentrate on serious illness, and publicly funded psychotherapy in any sustained form is rare. Psychologist licensing in Greece is real (a state practice license is required), while psychotherapy training sits on top of it through private institutes without a unified statutory framework.

Therapy therefore lives in the private market, and affordably by northern-European standards: 40 to 80 euros per session is the common Athens range, less in Thessaloniki. The English-speaking pool is concentrated in Athens, a mix of Greek therapists with international training and returnees from the UK and US, serving the diplomatic community, the shipping world, and the swelling remote-work population. The Greek diaspora's return migration means many therapists are themselves bicultural, which helps.

Questions people ask from Greece

What mental healthcare does the Greek public system provide?
ESY and EOPYY cover psychiatry-led care: assessment, medication, hospital services. Sustained public psychotherapy is rare in practice, with long gaps between appointments outside the big cities.
How much is private therapy in Athens?
Usually 40 to 80 euros a session, modest by Western European standards. English-speaking therapists cluster in Athens and Thessaloniki; the experienced ones fill up.
Is the psychologist title protected in Greece?
Yes, a license is required to practice as a psychologist. Psychotherapy training itself runs through private institutes, so the title tells you less than the specific training does; the section above explains what to check.
Do you work with people in the islands or smaller cities?
Often; outside Athens the English-language options thin out fast, and online work removes the geography. The time difference with Greece is easy to schedule around.

Selected research on this approach

My work is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. These are some of the studies on the effectiveness of that kind of therapy. They describe research on the method in general, and are not claims about any individual outcome.

  • Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98-109. doi:10.1037/a0018378
  • Steinert, C., Munder, T., Rabung, S., Hoyer, J., & Leichsenring, F. (2017). Psychodynamic therapy: as efficacious as other empirically supported treatments? A meta-analysis testing equivalence of outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(10), 943-953. PMID 28541091

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