Adam Charvatis is a narrative therapist and psychologist, with an MSc in school psychology and a doctor of psychology.
He has been trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Systematic Representation and Narrative Therapy. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Centre of Narrative Therapy (Greece). He has been the coordinator of the program of narrative therapy training in Greece of the Dulwich Center in Australia, the educational-therapeutic centre that developed the Narrative Therapy and narrative therapy instructor. He is now the coordinator of the contemporary greek narrative therapy training program that is recognised by the Greek Society of Narrative Therapy. He is also the co-founder, coordinator and instructor of the training program ” Folk School of Psychology ”
He has been working in counseling-psychotherapy with adults, children, couples, families and groups since 2000.
Among other things, he has worked as a school psychologist in private schools, special schools, and at Diagnosis and Evaluation of Students’ Population Centers of the Ministry of Education. He has worked as a prevention executive at the Centre for Drug Prevention and as a consulting psychologist in the Department of Psychological Support at the Welfare Organization of Thessaloniki’s Prefecture (where he worked with people with low financial means). He has worked in business as a coach and staff consultant – psychologist. He has also been a trainer in many counselling and school psychology training programs (from volunteer programs to university-organized programs).
He has been a founding member and participates in many voluntary initiatives on social and mental health issues, some of which are the Disability Volunteer Group and the Self-Education Network for Psychology. He has been an active and founding member of the Community of Active Interest in Climate Crisis, OUR COMMON NOW.
He has also taught – as a temporary lecturer – courses in School Psychology and Counseling Psychology at five Greek universities. The methodology he uses in his courses at the University is experiential.
He has coordinated for the Institute of Narrative Therapy the action of the Institute for the European program SHELDON project, a program for adolescents with learning disabilities and emotional/behavioural difficulties.
He has six publications in Greek and foreign language scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has translated Alice Morgan’s first book on Narrative Therapy in Greece, “What is Narrative Therapy: An Easy-to-Read Introduction”, and has co-authored a chapter on Narrative Therapy in the book “Family-System Therapy Schools”.
