Sara Strieth-Vatsella

24/02/2026

20/02/2026

Why is compassion important when treating trauma in psychotherapy?
Join me to learn more in this online free event!

10/12/2025

For growth we need both change and stability!!!
Explained by Dan Siegel, neuroscientist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, educator.

Discover how neuroscience-based therapy uses two brain pathways for healing. New 2025 research shows your brain is wired for safety and growth.

08/10/2025

I am attending this online event about trauma, regulation and resilience. Great speakers, such as Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk and Pat Ogden, share wisdom and latest findings in the field of therapy. Plus it’s free 😉

Learn Essential Skills for Nervous System Regulation in Therapy

05/05/2025

Μια συνοπτική παρουσίαση του χώρου της ψυχοθεραπείας στην Ελλάδα σήμερα από τον πρόεδρο της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Ψυχοθεραπείας Ελλάδος (της οποίας είμαι μέλος). Ο Πάνος Ασημάκης είναι ιδρυτής της πρώτης σχολής στην Ελλάδα στην συνθετική ψυχοθεραπεία της ανθρωπιστικής κατεύθυνσης, το Athens Synthesis Center, στο οποίο ολοκλήρωσα τετραετής φοίτηση στην συνθετική ψυχοθεραπεία το 2009. Ιδρυτής και του εκδοτικού οίκου Εκδώσεις Ασημάκη. Πρωτοπόρος, πρότυπο ανθρώπου και ψυχοθεραπευτή και άψογος συνεργάτης. Respect 🙏

Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο ο Χάρης Πίσχος, Ψυχολόγος και δημιουργός του PsychologyNow.gr φιλοξενεί τον κο Πάνο Ασημάκη, Πρόεδρο της Εθνικής Εταιρείας Ψυχοθεραπείας...

26/04/2025

To treat trauma and disregulatuon somatic techniques are necessary in psychotherapy. It is the reason I got trained in Trauma Focused Emotional Freedom Techniques, which can be practiced by the individual outside of the therapy room as well. If you are interested in learning more about somatic techiniques and their vital role in healing, check out this free live online event with great speakers. Dan Siegel is one of my favorite, speaking today!

Learn the art and science of integrating somatic approaches in therapy FREE ONLINE EVENT | April 24 – 26 Sign Up PRODUCED BY & 14 CE Credits Upgrade Available! 14 CE/CME Credits available for Psychologists, Counselors, MFTs, Social Workers & others with optional upgrade. Learn more after registeri...

07/03/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-out-of-your-mind/202208/the-most-important-skill-for-mental-health

This article confirms by belief in the benefits of psychotherapy for mental health. I typically say that the top benefits of psychotherapy are to gain self awareness and to make meaning of experiences/life.

This meta analysis of 50,000 studies (!!!) concludes that the three most important skills for good mental health are awareness, openness and valued engagement (or making meaning and acting accordingly). WOW!!

After five years of analysing over 50.000 studies on what helps people make a change, we finally have an answer. And it's simpler than you might think.

10/10/2024

Mental health is about how you think, how you process emotions and what beliefs and attitudes you hold about self, others and the world around.

We all have bad days, but generally speaking to be mentally healthy means that you are able to value yourself, your life, and relationships. You live consciously in the here-and-now and foster hope about the future. When things get tough you have coping skills and confidence to problem solve. And if you don’t manage you ask for help.

Η ψυχική υγεία έχει να κάνει με τον τρόπο που σκέφτεσε, τον τρόπο που επεξεργάζεσαι συναισθήματα και τις πεποιθήσεις που διατηρείς για τον εαυτό, τους άλλους και τον κόσμο γύρο σου.

Όλοι έχουμε κακές μέρες. Γενικά, να είσαι ψυχικά υγιής σημαίνει ότι δείνεις αξία στον εαυτό σου, στην ζωή σου και στις σχέσεις. Ζεις συνειδητά στο εδώ-και-τώρα και τρέφεις ελπίδα για το μέλλον. Όταν τα πράγματα δυσκολέψουν κατέχεις δεξιότητες και αυτοπεποίθηση για να λύνεις προβλήματα και αν δεν τα καταφέρεις ζητάς βοήθεια.



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23/09/2024

Are you curious about EFT tapping and how it can be applied for managing physical pain? Join the upcoming free online event:

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13/09/2024

This happened in May 📣
I am among the first few to have completed the brand new training in Trauma Focused-Emotional Freedom Techniques, by EFT International 🥳🙌

These are especially modified techniques to be used with disregulation (hyperarousal and hupoarousal) and traumatic stress activated through sensory triggers. There comes a time in psychotherapy where the person is so disregulated that talking about a traumatic experience proves too difficult. In these instances a somatic approach is more effective.

TF-EFT uses bilateral tapping to stimulate acupressure points of the meridian energy system, thereby effecting the nervous system and producing the calming effect of regulation.

If you think TF-EFT could be helpful for something difficult you are experiencing get in touch for more information!

10/09/2024

Let us take a minute to think about the serious matter of reaching the absolute limit, or what we call rock-button. When one does not want to be alive any longer… It is a dark place, a hopeless place, one filled with pain and anguish. Here is a quote that encourages the person to reconsider putting an end to life. The most precious blessing we have.

“For when you reach rock bottom: You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”

Matt Haig, (2021) The Comfort Book

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24/06/2024

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When a person experiences a traumatizing event (such as abuse, neglect, an accident, an assault, a natural disaster, etc) certain aspects of that event become associated with bodily sensations experienced at the time of the traumatic event. This process is called “traumatic coupling” (Goulston, 2011). The next time the person is exposed to a stimulus reminiscent of the traumatic event, he/she gets “triggered”, involuntarily bringing the traumatic event to memory or causing an emotional response or a nervous system response, such as stress (hense the name Post-Traumatic Stress).

An important aim of trauma therapy is to change traumatic coupling in order to free the person from
being triggered in everyday life. If you are interested to learn about how Trauma Focused EFT tapping can help to change traumatic coupling, get in touch! I’d be happy to help!

Goulston, M. (2011). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons