On Saturday, January 29, 2022, at 10:00 - 13:00, Mrs. D. Balliou participated in the 17th online postgraduate training meeting of the National Organization of Psychotherapy in Greece which aimed at the psychotherapeutic approach of the topic "Physical and Emotional Abuse - Survival by Trauma" through several psychotherapeutic approaches

Entitled "Self-Functions and Gestalt Therapy", Ms. Balliou's presentation included both theory and experiential practice.

Among other things, she stated that the functions of the self are the means, tools and possibilities through which the self organizes and integrates its experience, as it interacts with its environment. As a consequence of abuse - trauma, self-functions such as the ability to self-regulate, the ability to make choices, the ability to connect, support and grade emotions, the ability to manage boundaries, intensity and arousal, perception of reality and so on. -are under-developed or are limited in the course of the development of the abused person.

She then referred to the way in which these functions are developed, organized and integrated into the therapeutic process so that the wound healing begins to emerge and the pattern associated with it changes.

Balliou Despina, M.Sc. Counseling Psychology, Gestalt Psychotherapist, Trainer & Supervisoror, Founding Member of Gestalt Foundation, Psychotherapy and Training Centre and of HAGT (Hellenic Association for Gestalt Therapy).