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Kelly Tzanou, Therapist, International Psychology Munich

Languages: Greek · English · German

Modalities:
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (in training)
  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Parent counselling & psychoeducation
  • TEACCH & structured autism support
  • Crisis intervention

Therapist

Kelly Tzanou

Therapist

Psychologist with over 15 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, families and adults through counseling and guidance. Specialized in neurodiversity (autism, ADHD), family systems and psychological counseling. Working in Greek, English and German.

Specialties

  • Autism & neurodiversity
  • ADHD in children and adults
  • Children & adolescents
  • Parent counselling & family systems
  • Expat & intercultural adjustment
  • Stress & life transitions
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Kelly is an associated therapist at International Psychology Munich. They practise independently.

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My professional journey

I trained in psychology in London — a BSc in Psychology at London Metropolitan University, followed by an MA in Special Education at the University of East London, where my dissertation examined self-efficacy and loneliness in children with learning difficulties.

My clinical work began in Greece. I started at a treatment centre for autistic children in Chalkida and went on to a state day-centre for autistic children and adolescents in Athens, working on communication development with the TEACCH approach, sensory integration, and the patient work of strengthening the relationship between a parent and a child who communicates differently.

Since 2017 I have worked in Munich: first as a psychological specialist in a Montessori setting, then at the Autism Competence Centre Upper Bavaria (autkom, kbo), preparing diagnostic assessments and delivering autism-specific parenting guidance. From 2020 to 2024 I was a full-time psychologist with the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, in the psychological specialist service for the District of Upper Bavaria and the Youth Welfare Office. Since November 2025 I have been the school psychologist at Derksen Gymnasium in Munich.

I am currently in the practicum year of a four-year, EABCT-accredited training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with the Hellenic Society for Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy.

Autism and ADHD

Neurodiversity has been the thread through my whole career — fifteen years of it, across two countries and both ends of the age range.

With children, much of the work is practical and collaborative: making sense of a diagnostic picture, building communication where speech is limited, and helping a school understand what a particular child actually needs. With parents it is often about recovering confidence after a long period of being told, implicitly, that they are doing it wrong.

Adults come for different reasons. Many were never identified as children, and arrive after years of being treated for anxiety or low mood without anyone asking why focus, organisation or social energy have always cost them disproportionately. Naming that accurately is frequently the most useful part of the work.

You can read more on our ADHD support page.

Children, parents and families

I work with the family, not only the child. In practice that means parent counselling alongside sessions with the child, structured parenting guidance, and — where it helps — group programmes.

A school psychologist's week also teaches you how much sits outside the consulting room: a pupil in crisis, a teacher who needs a different strategy by Monday, a family where the academic problem turns out to be the smallest part of what is going on. I bring that same breadth to private work.

See child & adolescent therapy for how sessions are usually structured.

How I work

My training is cognitive behavioural, and I am completing the four-year EABCT-accredited programme now. Alongside it I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), schema-focused work, and — with autistic children — structured approaches such as TEACCH, PECS and elements of ABA.

What I offer is psychological counselling and guidance outside the scope of medical treatment. Where someone needs psychiatric or medical care, I will say so and help arrange it rather than work around it.

Languages and living abroad

I grew up in Greece, studied in London and have lived in Munich since 2017, so I have made the move myself — twice. I work in Greek, English and German (C1), and a good part of my practice is with international families raising children between two languages and two school systems.

Sessions are available in Munich and online.

Curriculum vitae

Experience & credentials

Since 11/2025

School Psychologist — counselling and support for pupils, crisis intervention, parent counselling and collaboration with the teaching team

Derksen Gymnasium · Munich, Germany

09/2020 – 11/2024

Psychologist — psychological specialist service for the District of Upper Bavaria and the Youth Welfare Office; counselling and therapeutically oriented support for families, parents and children; parenting guidance, group programmes and crisis intervention

Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising · Munich, Germany

06/2020 – 08/2020

Psychological & Special-Needs Specialist — preparation for diagnostics and autism-specific parenting guidance; counselling and crisis management; interdisciplinary consultation for professionals

Autism Competence Centre Upper Bavaria (autkom), kbo · Munich, Germany

01/2017 – 08/2019

Psychological Specialist — specialist service for children, parent meetings, developmental observation and documentation, support planning and individual education plans

Montessori Institution Zinnoberhaus GmbH · Munich, Germany

05/2015 – 08/2015

Psychologist — communication development with the TEACCH approach and sensory integration therapy; strengthening the parent–child relationship

State Day-Centre for Autistic Children and Adolescents · Athens, Greece

11/2011 – 04/2013

Psychologist — special-education concepts and support programmes; collaboration with parents using elements of PECS, ABA and TEACCH

Treatment Centre for Autistic Children · Chalkida, Greece

11/2011 – 07/2012

Psychologist (Internship) — psychological interventions for special and remedial educational needs

Human-Hope-Culture Society · Chalkida, Greece

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