About Spitha Wellness
About Spitha Wellness
Rekindle the Spark Within
“Spitha” (GK: Spark) Wellness is named after Lina’s late grandfather Athanasios Panagopoulos’ faithful friend, his hunting dog. Athanasios grew up in the small mountainside village of Kouvelia in Southern Peleponesos, Greece. He was a man of many talents: a violinist, singer, hunter, father, husband, and grandfather. Athanasios delivered babies too (though he wasn’t a doctor). At 37 he was killed in the war, leaving behind three children, his wife, and his dog. The olive trees marked the dowry of his union to Magdaline Prassinos, whom Lina is named after. Magdaline raised their family independently as a single mother.
This business is dedicated to their memory and to finding the creative spark of communicative music—one’s inner voice—to empower those who feel the sorrow and burden of life’s hardships. Sessions draw on many therapeutic modalities, primarily narrative, psychodynamic, integrative DBT and culturally-adapted ACT and CBT.
Integrative
Compassionate
Psychodynamic
Existential
Systems-based
Lina Zacharopoulos
M.A., M.Ed., Registered Psychotherapist
Lina is an integrative, trauma-informed, and person-centered psychotherapist with 15+ years of experience within the post-secondary environment in accessibility counselling services, and an additional five years of experience in the non-profit disability services and healthcare sectors.
She currently works for Telus Health as an Employee Assistance Program Clinical Counsellor. She serves various programs, including the Student Support Program, which supports multiple post-secondary institutions across Ontario, and the Workplace Support Program in Depression Care.
She possesses a Master of Arts (Counselling Psychology, with Distinction) from Yorkville University, Master’s in Education (Human Development and Applied Psychology) from OISE of the University of Toronto, a Bachelor in Adult Education (with Distinction) from Brock University, a Bachelor of Arts (English, Sociology) from the University of Toronto, and numerous teaching/counselling coursework, licenses, and certifications. However, she continues to learn and sees the therapy relationship as an opportunity both to learn and educate.
Lina is a registered member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and has worked with a wide range of issues including self-harm, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, anxiety, personal/academic/workplace stress and elder care. She specialize in serving clients aged ten and older, adolescents, young adults and mid-life and retired professionals seeking to develop additional self-awareness and collective empowerment. (Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario)
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Counselling sessions will be conducted online via Doxy Me.
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