Katerina was born and raised in Chania, Crete.
Her love for athletics and gymnastics accompanied her until her teenage years, where she won national distinctions. She lived in the United States for a year, where she participated in an athletic school and completed one grade of high school. Returning to Greece and graduating from high school, she studied Advertising (BSc) and shortly afterwards obtained a BSc in Psychology with Honours from Staffordshire University in England. Her thesis was on attachment during childhood and its role in the dynamics of adult romantic partners.
She worked as a volunteer at the Centre for the Treatment of Addicts (KETHEA) with groups of parents and adolescents and attended a training programme on mental disorders in adolescence, their diagnosis and treatment at the Kapodistrian University (EKPA).
She specialised in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy and obtained her MSc in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Her Master’s thesis on “How the psychotherapeutic work of experienced person-centred therapists affects their partner’s lives”, was the inspiration for her research work which focuses on partner relationships, couples and person-centred psychotherapy.
Currently, she is continuing her studies for the European Certificate of Psychotherapy from the European Association for Psychotherapy.
She works privately as a Psychologist – Psychotherapist in the centre of Athens.