Annita Chatzimichailidi holds a bachelor’s degree in social work and she has been trained by several postgraduate Institutions in psychotherapy. Her professional career began with her studies in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy. She then specialized in "Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder". She continued her education in Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Institute of Relational & Group Psychotherapy, where she is currently a trainee in group therapy based on Yalom’s model. Additionally, she is undergoing training at the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. In Athens, Greece, she works as a Coordinator of Educational Programs and Internships – Educator at the "Original Centre of Synthetic Treatments: Educational Institute of Synthetic Approach PC". Furthermore, she tutors cognitive-behavioral classes on Third Wave CBT and she conducts relational psychoanalytic classes in Synthetic approach programs. For three years, she volunteered as a social worker in an outpatient program for people experiencing their first psychotic episode at a Psychiatric Hospital in Athens. She has worked with NGOs assisting refugees and foundations that host minors who have been separated from their natural families by a prosecutor's order. She maintains affiliations with psychiatric centers where she conducts therapeutic sessions while also working in private practice. Until now, she has been a moderator at the 19th IARPP Annual Conference and presented to the candidates’ committee at the IARPP Conference in 2022.