My Approach

My practice draws on existential psychotherapy and Lacanian psychoanalysis, not as collections of techniques, but as ways of approaching psychic suffering, speech and each person’s singular position. Therapy is shaped case by case and is not organised around a predetermined model of mental health or an ideal to which the person is expected to conform.
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Existential psychotherapy attends to fundamental dimensions of human existence—freedom, choice, responsibility, loss, solitude and anxiety—as they emerge in each person’s speech. They are not imposed as themes, nor are they used to provide universal explanations. Radical questions—rather than answers—can arise when someone is no longer required to measure their life against a ready-made account of how it ought to be lived.
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Lacanian psychoanalysis approaches the symptom not only as a message awaiting decipherment, but also as a singular way in which body and speech are knotted together with a mode of satisfaction that does not necessarily coincide with pleasure. A symptom may cause suffering and, at the same time, function as a solution, even when that solution has become costly or restrictive. Therapy does not aim simply to eradicate it, nor does it suppose that it can be exhausted by meaning.

About Me

Dr Andreas Vassiliou is a Counselling Psychologist and Existential Psychotherapist, with an academic background in the social sciences and with extensive clinical training in psychology and psychotherapy. He holds a doctoral degree in Existential Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, alongside professional registrations and accreditations in Cyprus and the United Kingdom.

His clinical practice draws on the existential-phenomenological tradition and Lacanian psychoanalysis, with particular attention to the singularity of each person’s experience and speech.
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Since 2008, he has worked in clinical and educational settings across Cyprus and the United Kingdom, including the UK National Health Service, psychiatric and community mental health services, social welfare services and higher education. His professional experience includes clinical work with adults, children, adolescents, couples and families, as well as clinical and research supervision.
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He currently works with the University of Nicosia as a clinical supervisor. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Psychology and Professional Practice Lead on the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at Regent’s University London.

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• Families
• Groups
• Individuals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Existential Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Chronic Illness
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Phobias
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Sexuality
• Suicide
• Supervision
• Telephone Counselling
• Terminal Illness
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling