Apostolos Fournaris
Psychodynamic therapist focusing on relationships and identity
About Apostolos
Apostolos Fournaris offers calm, steady support for adults who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsettled by life. He writes plainly and listens closely so people can talk about anxiety, loss, addiction, identity and relationship pain. Sessions aim to help people notice patterns and make more intentional choices about how they live and relate.
Apostolos uses psychodynamic therapy to look at how early relationships and hidden feelings shape current behaviour. He helps people uncover unconscious motives and repeated patterns that keep causing distress.
Background and approach
Conversations are gentle and curious rather than rushed or prescriptive. He has 18 years of professional experience and is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. His training includes postgraduate work in psychoanalytic studies and counselling from the University of Essex and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Work can be short term or longer term depending on what the person needs. Sessions can include talking therapy, reflective exploring of family or identity issues, and tailored psycho-educational support for organisations when that is appropriate. Apostolos also offers brief interventions to help address a specific problem more quickly.
He provides sessions in English and Greek and sees people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and book a time that suits them. The focus in early meetings is practical and relational, so people know how therapy might help and what the next steps are.
What Apostolos works with
How Apostolos works
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Sessions & fees
Psychodynamic work adapted for online therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how past relationships and unspoken feelings shape how people act today. It looks for patterns in feelings and behaviour that often come from early attachments and repeated life experiences. This can help with anxiety, depression, relationship or identity concerns and recurring difficulties that feel hard to change.Psychodynamic work also pays attention to inner conflict and competing emotional needs. Therapy sessions create space to notice those clashes and to try out new ways of relating, thinking and feeling. Many people find that talking about repeated patterns helps them make different choices in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and the kinds of problems to focus on, and then shape the work to fit the person rather than force a single method. This collaborative planning helps make therapy practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, reflective notes or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of contact with a registered or accredited professional.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Greek
