Evangelia Botsaki , BACP

Evangelia Botsaki is a CBT-trained therapist originally from Greece who now practices from Edinburgh. She brings a personal commitment to understanding resilience and healthy relationships, a pathway that led her to study psychology first in Athens and later in Scotland. She completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Napier University and an MSc in Children and Young People’s Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh, and she holds the BACP credential, which denotes membership in the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Her formal training includes a Diploma in Counselling and Groupwork with a CBT emphasis, completed in 2019, and subsequent placements where she provided one-to-one therapy for people managing anxiety and low mood. During that time she also co-facilitated psychoeducational workshops on depression and on challenging negative thinking for several mental health organisations in Edinburgh.

Since moving into private practice, Evangelia has supported adults with a broad range of concerns, including anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, grief, and coping with life changes. Her manner is warm, collaborative, and compassionate, focused on helping clients explore what brings them to therapy and on practical steps toward meaningful change. She has completed additional training in Trauma-Focused Therapy and is currently undertaking training in Transactional Analysis to deepen her understanding of clients’ experiences and expand therapeutic tools.

Evangelia takes particular interest in patterns of negative thinking, struggles with self-confidence, and feelings of not belonging, and she aims to create a reflective space where people can develop insight and build emotional wellbeing.

Evidence-Based Approaches Adapted for Online Support

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and listening as the foundation for change. It invites clients to explore their own values and goals while the therapist offers a nonjudgmental, supportive presence, which can be helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and navigating life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours. It is practical and skills-oriented, useful for managing anxiety, low mood, sleeping difficulties, and many day-to-day challenges by teaching tools to change thoughts and actions.

Trauma-Focused Therapy provides approaches tailored to understanding and processing traumatic experiences, helping people reduce the impact of trauma-related symptoms and build coping strategies. These methods are applied with care to support emotional regulation and gradual healing.

Evangelia approaches the choice of method as a collaborative process. She works with clients to determine which approach or combination of approaches best matches their needs, goals, and personal preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress and circumstances evolve.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit sessions into daily life and to maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change. These formats offer flexibility and accessibility while allowing therapists to deliver the same evidence-informed interventions used in face-to-face work.