Welcome to your journey

Hello, and welcome to my website and blog! My intention for this blog is to be half a resource page (self-care, coping, beneficial information), and half my experience as a therapist working with trauma/PTSD, anxiety, and depression. This is not my first time venturing into blogging, various experiences of my life have led me to write about my experience and learnings. However, this is my first blog where my therapy role is the main voice that I am using. To say that it feels vulnerable is an understatement, but when it comes to walking the path of healing with clients, vulnerability is something we need to visit, very early on in therapy. So I will not shy from it. This post is meant to be an introduction to me, my way of writing, and my thoughts about this page/blog. I have. been a therapist formally for about six years, but the therapist in me has been viewing the world for a very long time, meaning I think I have always been a therapist. Along with carrying the title of therapist, I am also an avid yoga practitioner and teacher. My own practice has shifted through the years, starting where most begin, figuring out how to get into the poses and not be anxious or irritated in them, to learning the science behind the yoga, and now meditation - the topic my soul has been craving to understand, and only recently has begun to explore beyond my morning meditation, through research and reading, and exploring. I bring mindfulness and meditation in all the therapy that I do, all therapy requires us to be introspective and if we can have the tools to this (mindfulness and meditation) it makes exploring ourselves a bit more systematic than trying to do something we rarely figure out to do on our own.

Along with mindfulness and meditation, I also place self-care as a starting point for any therapy. We live in a world where we are constantly being pulled in various directions, on top of this, we deal with daily anxieties that seem to multiply with time. Self-care is something I had to learn the hard way as a student in university, and as brunt out therapist in a hospital setting, right after the Pandemic. I believe that no matter what brings a client to therapy, an aspect of their needs is a sense of burn out, which can come in so many forms, self care allows us to restore some sense of self back into their life. So to begin, I think this blog will start with my learnings of meditation, and my knowledge on self-care. From there, who knows?! We shall see where this journey takes us, as in life, each client takes me on a journey through their recovery, their life, and their sense of self. I hope that you come along on this journey with me and together we can explore life, a wholesome perspective to our health, and ultimately something to think about in your own life.

I welcome you on this journey.

Sincerely;

Maria Kontzamanis.