Art Therapy with Xristina Moschaki!
Art Therapy with
Xristina Moschaki!
I am Xristina Moschaki, Psychodynamic Art Therapist in Athens.
Painter and Art Therapist.
My approach during the individual and group sessions is theoretically influenced by the teachings of Karl Gustav Jung, Melanie Klein, Irvin Yalom and is equally enriched by the different places around the world where I have lived: Mexico, England, Bolivia, Colombia, Canada, India and Greece. My interaction with people from different cultural backgrounds and my daily life in places very different from each other such as snowy Canada, the high altitude of Bolivia, the tropical jungle of the Amazon, the Mediterranean of Spain and Greece, and rainy London are experiences that guide my openness with empathy, alertness and insight as a therapist.
Art activates the non-verbal part of the self, retrieves images and symbols from the unconscious, renews the neurological synapses, enriching our existence.
My Approach
The therapy sessions I provide respect the rhythm, the needs, the request and the diversity of each individual. Everyone, regardless of age, culture and social status can express parts of their unique psychic wealth through art therapy.
I am always touched by how art can directly relieve the human spirit. Art is more than just expression, it is a human need that connects us to our inner truth and wisdom.
Art can reach the heart in a respectful and safe manner when words are not enough.
Xristina Moschaki
It is important to find a therapist who will listen with their heart, your heart. Let’s talk!
“The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.” Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Xristina Moschaki | Experience
I started painting when I was living in the country of my favorite painter Frida Kahlo, in Mexico. My relationship with each image that my hands have created drew from my personal history my own symbols and activated them, connecting them to my conscious life. I realized over time that painting was my way to quiet the mind and to connect with my authentic self.
Through the writing of my book “Birth as you Please” and the painting of each woman’s birth story, I realized that art has infinite possibilities and expressions in human beings and their lives that help them discover their authentic qualities and unify their personalities. In the last ten years, my experience in group and individual art therapy in various parts of the world together with my studies in Art Therapy at the Hellenic Art Therapy Center, frame my therapeutic person-centered and non-directive approach.
Heart ♥ & Art Therapy Sessions
We reach the unconscious together, explore, create, share, review and heal with:
The Book “BIRTH AS YOU PLEASE” | Amancaya Xristina
Twenty-one mothers, women who gave birth, from different corners of the world (Canada, USA, Bolivia, Russia, Brazil, Belgium, France, Greece), joined their voices in the book “Birth As You Please” and shared their birth stories to inspire, empower and support the right to choose how, where, when and with whom to give birth. A book where the diversity of the birthgiving experience is depicted through colors and words and where art becomes the medium that elevates human existence and captures the essence of motherhood.
As a visual artist I found in my motherhood journey the inspiration to contribute to the higher cause of motherhood. I wrote Birth As You Please because I felt an urgent need to add ideas, creativity and research to the dialogue around how childbirth can become more human and how women, people who give birth, all over the world, in many different cultures, can inspire each other to rediscover their capacities to give life.
Xristina Moschaki
Trust ♥ & ART Therapy
Xristina Moschaki
Creation
With my hands and my whole body as a creative guide I connect with the unconscious and retrieve my images and symbols; I interpret them physically, mentally, psychically and emotionally and enrich my sense of self.
Self knowledge
I shed light on my inner world, discover and accept my unexplored aspects. I go into the source of my relational, emotional and behavioral patterns and transform them.
Relationships
I understand my personal life story in relation to the others and my loved ones, I strengthen the way of coexistence through the acceptance of myself and the diverse ways of being.