Dr Foteini Lymperopoulou
Psychiatrist - Psychotherapist

Foteini Lymperopoulou graduated from the Medical School of the University of Patras, Greece, and specialized in Adult Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospitals of Geneva (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève), Switzerland.

She completed the postgraduate training program in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the University of Geneva, while she has also specialized in analytical group psychotherapy and psychodrama through the "Association Romande pour la Psychothérapie Analytique de Groupe" (ARPAG). She has attended seminars on mentalisation-based therapy (Université de Genève, University College London, Anna Freud National Centre, RF-TBM), which concerns the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. She has extensive experience in couple and family therapy.

She has many years of experience in the full range of adult mental disorders, as well as in different mental health structures in Switzerland. In particular, she has many years of experience in the field of women's mental health, as she worked in a psychiatric inpatient unit for mothers with psychiatric diagnoses (Unité de Psychiatrie Hospitalière Adulte - UPHA), along with their infants, under the supervision of pediatrician-child psychiatrist Nadia Stern, director of the Brazelton Center, and the psychiatrists Christel Alberque and Georgios Gkinis. She also worked as a chief resident doctor for several years in the Liaison Psychiatry Service, specializing in perinatal mental health of women, in collaboration with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Child Psychiatry, where she undertook the psychiatric and individual psychotherapeutic monitoring of patients, as well as couple therapies.

Moreover, she worked in the psychiatric inpatient unit for patients with eating disorders at the University Hospitals of Geneva, as well as in the outpatient clinic of the eating disorders center (Espaces de soins pour les troubles du comportement alimentaire - ESCAL), as a chief resident doctor, undertaking the diagnosis, as well as the psychiatric and individual psychotherapeutic monitoring of patients. She was also a co-therapist in groups at the center's day hospital and undertook family therapies for the center's patients.

From 2017 to 2022, she was deputy director of the General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Service and scientific manager of the Brief Therapy Center of the psychiatric institution Fondation de Nant - Secteur Psychiatrique de l'Est Vaudois, where she coordinated a brief therapeutic intervention program in crisis (depressive and anxiety symptoms, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts in critical periods for the individual), a brief psychodynamic therapy program and a therapeutic intervention program for young adults aged 18-25. In addition, she gave seminars to resident doctors on the topics of therapeutic interventions in crisis, suicide risk assessment and determining indications for psychotherapy.

At the same time, since 2019, she held a private practice in Geneva. Since April 2025, she has her private practice in Athens.

She is a member of the Athens Medical Association, the Hellenic Psychiatric Society, the Geneva Medical Association (Association des médecins de Genève-AMGe), the Federation of Swiss Doctors (Fédération des Médecins Helvétiques-FMH), the Swiss French-speaking Group for Suicide Prevention (Prévention Suicide Romandie - PSR), as well as the Hellenic Women's Mental Health Association.