Natalia Gheorghiu BSc, MSc

Natalia was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling. Before that, she was a Teaching Fellow in Counselling from December 2022. However, she started at the University of Greenwich in September 2022 as an Hourly Paid Lecturer (HPL) after being a student in the MSc Therapeutic Counselling programme. Her background is in counselling young people and adults with additional needs, such as ASD, ADHD and learning disabilities who experienced bereavement, childhood and developmental traumas and sexual abuse.

She initially trained in Humanistic counselling, 9 years ago, and worked as a wellbeing and emotional support worker in a special education school where she managed the emotional drop-in service for children and young people who struggled to manage their anxiety, anger and hyperactive behaviour. Her role involved helping children develop emotional regulation strategies by utilising techniques such as feeling boards, relaxation resources and happiness boxes. Natalia was also responsible for assessing those children and young people who required more intensive support and identifying appropriate external therapeutic agencies.

Currently, Natalia splits her time between her role at Greenwich, lecturing at a small counselling training college in counselling and psychotherapy, whilst concurrently providing integrative counselling sessions to individual clients from diverse backgrounds and psychological presentations, such as depression, anxiety, stress, domestic violence, OCD, ASD.

Post Held  previously :

• Ocean Counselling Training LLP - Level 3 & 4 Tutor.