Vasilis Xernos is a Psychologist, Sports Psychologist and Psychotherapist. He studied Psychology at Panteion University and then wanted to combine psychology with his other love, sports, so the choice for his first postgraduate specialization resulted from the union of the two words and the corresponding scientific field: Sports Psychology at TEFAA of the University of Thessaly. He is currently expanding his knowledge in the field of Sports Psychology in greater depth through his Doctoral Studies at TEFAA of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. At the same time, all these years he has not stopped enriching his knowledge with trainings and personal search for scientific developments in all branches of psychology and in the art of psychotherapy, where he has completed the internationally recognized three-year training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Currently he works as a Sport Psychologist at the Olympiakos Football Academy, he collaborates with athletes and coaches of various sports and ages as his years of professional service in a Mobile Mental Health Unit and in OKANA has provided him with practical experience in managing various peculiarities of the human psyche (psychosis, neurosis, substance dependence, etc.). Also worth mentioning is the long-term personal psychotherapy, which he has voluntarily carried out in the past and which has made him know himself better, a fact which, as acknowledged by leading academics and scientists in the field of psychology, makes a scientific psychologist more capable in providing psychotherapeutic services to other people.
Education
BSc in Psychology from the Panteion University (2012-2017)
MSc in Psychology of Exercise from the University of Thessaly (2017-2020)
Training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) from the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) (2017-2021)
Doctoral Studies in Sports Psychology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (2023-present)
Certificate in Psychology for High Performance Sports approved by Barça Innovation Hub (2018)
Certificate in Communication in Sports Organizations from Barça Innovation Hub (2020)
Certificate in Sport Psychology for Athletes Development from Barça Innovation Hub (2020)
Certificate in Special Education and Edification in Neurodevelopmental and Sensorial Disorders from National Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019-2020)
Certificate in Sales Instruction from Athens University of Economics (2019-2020)
Professional Experience
Sports Psychologist at FC Olympiacos Academy (2022-present)
Sport Psychologist in private practice collaborating with football, table tennis, tennis, and swimming professional and non-professional athletes (2018-present)
Psychologist-member of the interdisciplinary team of Metavasi NGO providing psychosocial rehabilitation services to children, adolescents, and adults (2019-2022)
Psychologist at the Averof Integrated Treatment Unit of Greek Organisation Against Drugs (OKANA) (2023-2024)
Country Representative of Greece for European Network of Young Specialists in Sport Psychology (ENYSSP) (since 2022)
Sport Psychologist at FC Apollon Smyrni Academy (2018-2019)
Sport Psychologist in Pefki Table Tennis SC (2018-2019)
Languages
English(C2)
French(Sorbonne C2)
Greek(Native)
Conferences
Virtual Applied Sport Psychology Summit (VASPS) (2019)
15th ENYSSP Conference in Trieste (2019)
European Dimensions of Sport & Exercise Psychology Intensive Course in Trikala (2018)
15th Panhellenic Conference of Psychological Research (2017)
Volunteer Experience
Psychologist providing psychological support to callers of the 10306 National Telephone Line for Psychosocial Support during COVID-19 (2020)
Tenants’ activities’ escort in Poreia Promotion of Psychosocial Health Centre (2015-2016)
Fire protection assistant in EDASA Volunteers Fire Protectors of Attiki (2015-2019)