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Lorena Georgiadou

PhD research student

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Email: L.Georgiadou@sms.ed.ac.uk

Location:

3rd Floor, Teviot Place, Medical School

Outline Biography

2002-2007: BSc (Hons) in Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

2007-2008: Teacher of Modern Greek, Bologna, Italy

2008-2009: MSc in Counselling Studies, University of Edinburgh (awarded with distinction). Dissertation title: ‘How participation in individual and group therapy can influence a trainee’s personal and professional development’

2010-present: PhD in Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Edinburgh.

I have volunteered and worked with children and adolescents with learning disabilities in various settings both in Greece and in Scotland.

My research interests include counsellor training, international students, second-language use, diversity issues and qualitative research methods

Project Title

Foreign counselling trainees’ experiences of practising in a second language and culture

Project details

My doctoral project, situated in a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, is an idiographic study that explores international counselling trainees’ experiences of practising in a foreign linguistic and cultural environment.

Supervisors: Siobhan Canavan, Dr. Marion Smith

Publications

Publications/presentations/papers list for Lorena Georgiadou

Teaching

Counselling Psychology, Queen Margaret University, visiting lecturer

Between Counselling and Research I, University of Edinburgh, seminar tutor
Conducting Research Interviews, tutor

Supervising Masters students’ dissertations

This article was published on May 1, 2013