On the path here

The route into psychotherapy was indirect, which I think made it more honest.

I grew up in Greece, trained in classical piano from early childhood and ended up getting 4 different degrees. These were years of discipline, performance, and the particular psychological cost of organizing a self around a craft that demands total commitment before you're old enough to choose it. Alongside that I was studying, moving between worlds, learning what it meant to belong to systems that had their own logic, their own hierarchies of power, their own versions of who you were supposed to become.

I’ve worked over a decade in philanthropy, often finding myself in rooms where the stakes were real across the gap between stated values and actual behavior. That work taught me to read what isn't being said. To track the distance between a person's public position and their private experience. To notice when an organization — or a person — is performing coherence rather than living it.

The move into psychotherapy wasn't a change of subject but rather a change of scale — from systems to the individual psyche, with the same core questions intact. I've completed my clinical training at the Integral Counseling Center at Pierce Street in San Francisco.