Socrates

Mitsos

I practice from a clinician-scholar orientation, where psychology intersects with philosophy, spiritual experience, ethics, and deep structures of identity.

In addition to helping individuals with anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, I specialize in working with those confronting medical adversity, questions of selfhood, and profound existential concerns of meaning, purpose, and life orientation. My approach operates across two interconnected levels. First, we cultivate immediate skills drawing from evidence based cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches (REBT, CBT, ACT). The aim is to strengthen your capacity to step inside your moment-to-moment experience and regain clarity, agency, and authorship over unhelpful thoughts in order to resolve active challenges. Undergirding this is the second dimension of our work, where we facilitate a deeper reorientation of your life so that your decisions and path are grounded in your core values, deeper insight, and genuine reflection.

I hold an MDiv from Harvard University, where I spent three years studying spiritual care and the medical humanities. During that time, I worked at Harvard’s oncology research hospital, where, in a counseling and chaplaincy capacity, I sat with remarkable individuals facing serious medical issues, psychological distress, and ultimate concerns. My encounters there were among the most humbling and inspiring, and deepened my capacity to remain open and receptive to the full human experience. Through support from study grants, I also researched healing in the Hindu-Buddhist Himalayan context and the ancient Greek Asclepian tradition. My MDiv thesis examines how physical crisis and acute psychological disruption can fracture our familiar frameworks of meaning and self-identity, and how those very fractures open new channels of insight, healing, and transformation.

Before Harvard, I earned an MA in Mental Health Counseling and Wellness and a BA in Psychology (Honors) from New York University. My clinical research background spans psychopharmacology and diagnostic interviewing in acute psychiatric settings with individuals experiencing psychosis.

Originally from New York, I have lived in London and Greece, and spent considerable time in India, where I studied meditation and the Mahamudra tradition extensively.

I have enjoyed long hiking journeys, including the Camino de Santiago, the E4 path from northern Greece to the southern tip, and the Himalayan foothills of northern India. Since my youth, I have been an avid visitor and dreamer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.