Apostolos Fournaris, BACP

Apostolos Fournaris is a BACP-registered psychodynamic counsellor with 18 years of professional experience. He aims to offer a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about stressful or painful life events. He welcomes conversations about anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, gender identity, and relationship or family worries.

His work rests on psychodynamic ideas about how early relationships shape later patterns. Sessions look at feelings, repeated behaviours, and the quieter motives that sit under everyday choices. Apostolos uses this understanding to help people make sense of difficult patterns and to try new ways of relating.

He provides both shorter-term and longer-term weekly psychotherapy. He also offers consultation, reflective groups, psycho-educational work for organisations such as schools and charities, and brief family-focused interventions tailored to needs. His training includes postgraduate study at the Tavistock and Portman and degrees in psychoanalytic studies and psychology.

Apostolos has worked with adults, children and adolescents and draws on a broad clinical background to adapt sessions to different ages and situations. He follows the ethical frameworks of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the British Psychological Society.

Sessions are offered in English and Greek, and he is available to work with international clients. If someone feels they need help with stress, trauma, identity questions, or coping with long-term health or life changes, Apostolos invites them to explore those issues together.

How psychodynamic ideas translate to online therapy

Apostolos draws on psychodynamic work which looks at feelings, past relationships and repeated life patterns. Psychodynamic therapy involves talking over time about emotions, memories and how people relate to others; it can help with anxiety, identity questions, grief and patterns that keep repeating.

He also offers reflective and psycho-educational work that helps people and organisations think about behaviour and relationships. These approaches aim to build understanding of why certain reactions happen and to open up new ways of responding in daily life.

Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs with each person and decide together which approach or combination of work will be most helpful. This is a collaborative conversation rather than a fixed prescription.

The original profile does not list specific online or in-person formats, so please confirm current session options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They can also support international arrangements for people living abroad, while the practical details of how sessions run are agreed with the therapist.