Joulietta Kalli-Laouri & Associates

The Psychotherapeutic Center Joulietta Kalli-Laouri & Associates offers working opportunities for mental health specialists seeking to gain experience in working in a team. Occasionally, our team is staffed with psychologists from different areas of practice, such as clinical and educational psychologists, family therapists and psychotherapists, as our clinic gives the opportunity to specialists to work with a large range of people who face different difficulties. The composition of our team changes from time to time. After a few years of working in our clinic, some colleagues decide to set up their own offices, follow a different occupational field or get employed in the public sector. However, most of them continue to work closely with us as external associates.

Our team consists of a group of mental health specialists: a child-psychiatrist, psychologists-counselors, school psychologists and psychologists-psychotherapists.

Dr. Joulietta Kalli-Laouri, a child psychiatrist, is responsible for the overall coordination of the clinic.

Joulietta Kalli-Laouri M.D., Ph.D. Child-psychiatric – Child and Adolescent psychotherapist

 

Joulietta Kalli-Laouri studied medicine in Germany and obtained her Ph.D. in Neurophysiology. She was specialized in Child and Adolescent psychiatry at Goettingen University, Germany, and has worked at the Child Psychiatric Clinic of the University. She served as head of the Psychosomatic Pediatric Unit at the Pediatric Clinic of the University. She is trained in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, in Systemic Family Therapy and in Child Psychomotor Development. She primarily works with children, adolescents and their families, as well as their broader environments.

As of 1991, she has been working in Cyprus in the private sector. As of 1995, she leads a team of experts in the field of mental health. She is a founding member of the Cyprus Child Psychiatric Society, the Cyprus Society of Family Therapy, the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, and the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Promotion. She also serves as board member of various beneficial institutions. From 2006 to 2010, she served as member of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee.

Irene Grigoriou M.A. School Psychologist

Irene holds a Bachelor Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in School Psychology from the University of Cyprus. As of 2012, she has been working at the Psychotherapeutic Center JuliettaJoulietta Kalli-Laouri & Associates where her primary duties involve conducting psychometric assessments for children, guidance and counseling of parents and providing psychological support to children and adolescents. Her areas of interest include: children, adolescents and adults with learning difficulties and how these difficulties affect their psycho-emotional state, children with autistic disorders and children with behavioral issues. Being constantly calm and equipped with professionalism, Irene succeeds in gaining the trust of children and be respected by parents.

Marilena Isaia, Registered Systemic Psychotherapist

Marilena completed her studies at the Department of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2013. In addition, she holds a master's degree in Perinatal Mental Health from Canterbury Christ Church University. He has addressed the importance of promoting mental health in the early years of life. Additionally, he has been trained in Medical Education at the Center for Mental Hygiene and Research in Thessaloniki. He worked voluntarily in the drug addiction program of the KETHEA Counseling Center.

He specialized in Systemic Therapy and Counseling, completing the four-year training program at the Center for Systemic Studies and Therapy in Thessaloniki. He is a registered member of the Pancypriot Association of Psychotherapists.

He provides individual psychotherapy services to adults and adolescents, mainly having experience in dealing with various requests, such as anxiety, depression, interpersonal difficulties, self-empowerment. She is also able to provide counseling and family therapy services.

Nikolina Theodorou M.A. School Psychologist

Nikolina graduated from the Department of Psychology of the University of Cyprus, where she also earned her MA in School Psychology. Moreover, she has accumulated practical experience with groups of children from preschool to adolescence, which equipped her with the professional skills and integrity to effectively manage complex and contemporary needs faced by children in families and schools. Her motivation is the empowerment of children and adolescents to acquire skills that would enable them to manage and develop psychosocial and psychoemotional issues. Consequently, she is interested in helping children, parents and teachers to achieve their goals within the school environment and beyond: ranging from learning, socio-emotional to professional and personal. Therefore, she implements psychodiagnostic evaluations, providing psychotherapeutic interventions focused on the educational and family system, in order to facilitate the learning and comprehensive development of the child.

Despina Iosif M.A. School Psychologist

Despina received her first degree from the Psychology program at the University of Cyprus in 2017. She has done her master's degree in School Psychology. She dealt with a variety of cases of children and adolescents with psychosocial, learning and behavioral difficulties and has implemented prevention programs, such as experiential workshops for empathy development, acceptance of diversity, stress recognition and management, psychoeducation for school attendants and teachers. She developed skills in evaluating and writing psychological reports. She deals with counseling for children, adolescents, parents, teachers and individual intervention programs.

Despina is a member of our team as a School Psychologist since 2020 and at the same time continues her studies in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cyprus.

Theordoros Mesaritis, Registered Counseling Psychologist

Theodoros Messaritis is a Registered Counseling Psychologist (A.M. 565). He completed his studies in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham. After a one-year internship as a Trainee Psychologist in the Therapeutic Community of Agia Skepi, he pursued postgraduate studies in Counseling Psychology at the University of Nicosia.

He has worked as a Middle School and High School Counselor as well as privately in his own office for parent and teen counseling, couples counseling and other mental health issues. At the same time, she is employed at the Family Intervention and Support Center for Autism "Aktida" where she provides counseling for parents, couples and psychoeducation.

To this day, Theodoros remains an active member of the Cypriot society with voluntary work such as at Agia Aikaterini (a foundation for people with psychotic disorders) and publishing articles in the newspaper Politis and on social media.

Eleni Antoniou, Personal Assistant, Secretarial Officer

Eleni studied Marketing Communications at the University of Nicosia. 

Eleni has been working in Cyprus since 2013. From 2023 onwards, she is acting as a personal assistant, being responsible for the organization, administration and smooth operation of the psyschotherapeutic center “Joulietta Kalli Laouri & Associates DLC” in Nicosia. As part of her duties within the center, Eleni is, among other things, responsible for communicating with clients and center staff, archiving, arranging appointments, preparing and editing letters and reports and generally ensuring the smooth operation of the center. Her excellent communication and organizational skills as well as her discretion and confidentiality are just some of the characteristics that distinguish her.