NESTORIS CHRISTOFOROS

NESTORIS CHRISTOFOROS is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who is based in Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Greek Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies and has been certified as a therapist by the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy that can help address problems such as anxiety, panic attacks, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobias, eating disorders etc.

The basic principle of cognitive therapy is that our emotions and behavior are greatly influenced by the way we see things and our general attitudes and beliefs. So, during the course of treatment and over a relatively short period of time, the patient can learn to think more realistically, without negative thoughts and distortions.

Finally, the treatment employs simple and direct methods with the result that patients’ symptoms recede and they feel better and more creative. Cognitive psychotherapy can also be combined with medication when this is considered to be important to provide relief from particularly painful or disturbing symptoms.