ONOUFRIOS BACHARAKIS

Specialization: psychologist, Sociologist, Systemic Psychotherapist

Position: Private Practice (2023 – present)

Education & Academic Qualifications

  • 2022 – 2025: Center for Systemic Study and Therapy
    Training Program in Systemic Therapy
  • 2021 – 2024: University of East London, Department of Psychology
  • 2019 – 2021: Hellenic Association for Systemic Therapy and Intervention with Individuals, Families and Wider Systems (ESyThePaS)
    Training Program in Systemic Therapy
  • July 2019: HIGGS – “Accelerator” Program
    Training in the Writing and Submission of Funding Proposals and NGO Strategic Planning
  • April – July 2018: Potsdam Universität (Erasmus) – Sociology
  • 2015 – 2019: Panteion University, Department of Sociology

Professional Experience

  • 2023 – Present: Provision of Psychotherapy and Counselling Services
  • 2024 – Present: Partner, Bilingual Psychotherapy Center Roots Wellness Center
  • 2021 – 2022: ALTA KARTA
    Responsible for communication with international partner companies
  • 2018 – 2019: Special Education Workshop “Margarita”
    Volunteer internship in the Research and Development Department
  • 2015 – 2018: ALTA KARTA
    Sales Representative at the “School Supplies” Exhibitions, Metropolitan Expo Center, Athens

Volunteer Work

  • 2024: E.P.A.P.S.Y. – Department of Volunteering
  • 2023: K.S.D.E.O. “Edra” – Department of Volunteering
  • 2019: University Research Institute of Mental Health
    Participation in the administration of questionnaires for the nationwide study “Panhellenic Survey on the Use of Psychoactive Substances and Other Addictive Behaviours Among Students” (ESPAD 2019)

Seminars – Specializations

2024

  • Metavasi – Drama Therapy Seminar

2023

  • Workshop presentation at the SEVE Conference: “The Polyphony of Questioning”
  • KETHEA – “From Addiction to Recovery”
  • Emotional Hunger: How to Identify It and Ways to Address It
  • Building the Psychological Resource of Resilience
  • Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy
  • Exercise Psychology: Interventions for Physical and Mental Health
  • Career Choices and Decision-Making
  • Introduction to Trauma Therapy: EMDR Application through Case Studies

2022

  • Conference: “The Sibling Bond”
  • Seminar: “From Sinking to Soaring: Building Resilience”
  • Summer School – Playworkers
  • Why Emotions Look as They Do and Why We Don’t Always Get Them
  • Grief and Management Techniques for Therapists
  • Introduction to Gestalt Therapy
  • SEVE Conference: “Ways and Spaces of Resistance, Safety, and Polyphony”

2020

  • Institute of Relational and Group Psychotherapy – Workshop: “The Executioners of Envy: A Relational Psychoanalytic View of the Envious Object”
  • Seminar: “History and Philosophy of Gestalt Therapy”

2019

  • ETHOS – EESKEPSO Conference: “Systemic Therapy: What Changes – What Remains the Same”

2017

  • Conference: “Democratic Defense, the Anti-Dictatorial Struggle and Panteion University”

Certifications

  • 2022: Certified Playworker NVQ-Level 3
  • 2019: ECDL MS Office Certification (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Languages

English: Excellent
German: Very Good

Clinical & Professional Interests

  • Systemic Psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and families
  • Communication and systemic patterns in human relationships
  • Exploration of social dynamics and psychological effects within groups
  • Cross-cultural psychotherapeutic practice
  • Developmental psychology and psychopathology