Maria Sgourou is a psychologist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), holder of a Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychopathology of Infancy and Early Childhood from the Medical School of AUTH, Gestalt Psychotherapist, and a PhD candidate at the University of Macedonia. She is originally from Veroia and has been living permanently in Thessaloniki since 2013.
In 2020, she founded her own Psychotherapy Centre, where she and her team work with adults, children, adolescents, families, and groups, providing individual and group psychotherapy, child and adolescent therapy, parental counselling, career guidance, and psychometric testing. In 2025, she founded the psychosocial non-profit organization ‘MAKE SymperiliPsy’, which offers free primary mental health prevention to the general population, free psychotherapy for vulnerable groups, and conducts research in the field of psychology. She is a woman with 92% motor disability and uses a wheelchair. Her favourite quote is: ‘There are many ways to climb a mountain’.
