Zafeiria was born and raised in Chania. At the age of 18, she came to Athens and studied Social Worker. She started working in settings for children with disabilities and practiced Social Work for several years in Welfare Directorates of the Ministry of Health.
At the same time he was involved in music, singing and radio production.
At the same time he was involved in music, singing and radio production.
When she found herself working at the Centre for Intercultural Psychiatry and Care of Roma in the Municipality of Acharnon-Zefiri, she started training in Person-Centred Approach at the ICPS (then the Centre for Training in Person-Centred Approach), under the supervision of Professor Emeritus of the University of Athens, Julius Iosifidis.
She was admitted to the UCAS in Substitution and Rehabilitation Units and continued her training in Focusing and specific training in Addictions.
She has been working at Okana for the last 26 years, while she also collaborates with the Postgraduate Programme in Addictions of the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete in Rethymno, where she trains and supervises postgraduate students.
For the last 6 years she has been training in the Focusing process, Non-Directive Intervention psychotherapists in Chania.Since 2009 she holds the European Certificate for Psychotherapy of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) as a certified Person-Centred Experiential Psychotherapist.
Her interests and strengths are teaching and supervising social workers and psychotherapists candidates, individual and group therapy, conflict management, empowering young people in the profession of psychotherapist, her special way of approaching people with authenticity, humour and empathy, her deep belief in the good nature of man and… singing as a way of expression and self-therapy.