Katerina Valavanidi studied Psychology (BSc) and Psychoanalytic Studies (MA) in London, UK. She completed her postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, with a distinction. She then followed a five year clinical training at the Hellenic Institute of Group Analysis and Family Therapy and a three year training at the Department of Group Analysis at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Athens. She has also attended an intensive training course in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy at the Anna Freud Centre in collaboration with Tavistock & Portman Clinic. As a psychologist she has offered her services at the Anna Freud Centre (in the research department), at the Rehabilitation Centre '18 Over' in Athens, the Child Psychiatry Department of the Children's Hospital 'Agia Sophia', at the Centre for Psychosocial & Medical Rehabilitiation in Ano Liosia. She has also worked as a family counsellor and has organised groups and seminars at various centres for Children and their F