Georgia Gkantona is an Assistant Professor of Counselling Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Ioannina, a psychologist and a Systemic-Dialogic Therapist. Before her appointment at the University of Ioannina, she had extensive teaching experience in various private & public institutions (training programs of specialization in Systemic Counselling and Psychotherapy, TEI of Epirus, Mediterranean College of Athens, INEP of the National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government, etc.).
At the clinical level, for fifteen years she provided counselling, therapeutic and supervision services for individuals, couples and families in private practice and in various mental health settings (clinical supervisor of mental health stuff in services of the Centre for Research on Equality Issues, career counsellor etc.). Regarding her psychotherapeutic approach, initially her practice had a systemic background, but after the scientific editing and translation into Greek of the book “Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalized Society”, she integrated in her clinical practice the development, implementation and evaluation of counselling and therapeutic methods based on the Dialogic Self Theory as a unifying theory.
In recent years, in addition to the applications of Dialogical Self Theory in clinical practice, she has also been involved in research inspired by this theory. Thus, she is studying the internal dialogical activity and its relationship with mental health, the construction of identity from a dialogical and narrative perspective and the development of narrative and dialogical research methods. At the same time, her research interests are focused on the study of gender-based violence phenomena. She is the author of scientific articles, has participated in international conferences, has collaborated with international journals as a reviewer of articles and is a member of scientific societies (ELPSE, International Society for Dialogical Science, European Family Therapy Association).
