I was born and raised in Athens, Greece, studied medicine in Italy and travelled the world extensively. I received my medical degree at the University of Padua in Italy and completed my residency training in adult psychiatry at Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan, NY (formerly know as Saint Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital). I initially started working as a psychiatrist treating severe, chronic, mental illness and substance use disorders at Crozer Chester Medical Center in Philadelphia PA. In 2015 I started working at Callen Lorde, an LGBTQIA+ center in Manhattan and gained extensive experience working with the LGBTQIA+ community. Witnessing how intersectionality of race, gender and sexual orientation affected mental health lead me to seek more training in psychotherapy. I trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and completed my sex therapy training at the Sex Therapy Certificate Program at the University of Michigan. I am able to conduct evaluations and write letters for gender marker changes, hormone therapy, and gender affirming surgery procedures. Furthermore I work with non-monogamy/polyamory, BDSM/Kink, relationship issues, sex therapy, sex work and trauma issues. Being an immigrant myself, I provide culturally sensitive treatment and address immigration trauma and cultural identity issues. I am fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and Greek and can practice medication management and psychotherapy in those languages.

I started my private practice in 2017. I think healing is a journey; the most important aspect for treatment is creating a safe, non judgmental environment. Many people carry a lot of guilt and shame. We learn very early in life limited and restrained rules and ideas of what is right and wrong. My goal of treatment is to help people accept themselves for who they are and help them grow to their full potential. We are all raised with a very strict inner critic and we reserve our compassion, kindness and forgiveness for others. I work together with my patients to soften that inner voice and apply the same understanding, compassion, kindness and forgiveness to the self. For all psychotherapy, sex therapy and medication management my approach is collaborative, we sit together and make an individual plan that fits the patient’s needs taking in account their own social, ethnic and sexual background.