Maria Galitsi is a graduate of the Social Work Department of the Athens Institute of Technology and also a graduate of the Communication and Media Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She works at the Panhellenic Association of Disabled Persons “ERMIS” as head of the Psychosocial sector providing counseling support services to the population with intellectual disability, genetic syndromes and autism spectrum disorders and their families. In previous years, she was involved in United Nations Intergovernmental Agency programs dealing with psychosocial support for the refugee population through a coordinating role in the field and main responsibilities ensuring the quality assessment of needs and vulnerabilities and conflict resolution within a multicultural environment. She has also worked for child protection agencies and for almost ten years she was working as a journalist. She's a trainee relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy (Athens). She's monitoring clinical cases under weekly supervision while in individual and group therapy. She is a member of the Association of Social Workers of Greece, a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and a member of the American Association of Group Psychotherapists (AGPA).