User:Spyroskasimatis

Spyros Kasimatis (born 1954) teaches IB Diploma literature and TOK in Greece. He is also active as a Grief Counsellor and Teacher Trainer in Counselling Skills.

Kasimatis grew up in Salonica and Athens in a family of agro-industrialists. He is divorced from School Psychologist Fotini Xenakis. Together they have brought up three daughters, Daphne and Ariadne Kapsalis, and Margarita Kasimatis.

Kasimatis studied Greek Literature and Linguistics at the University of Salonica and History at University College London-SEES, earning an MA in 1988. He also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Strathclyde.

After a very brief spell in the state sector, his career continued in the private sector, teaching at independent schools in Athens and London. He left teaching to work in the Toy Trade and in Educational Management during the '90 and resumed his teaching career just before 2000.

Kasimatis researches Counselling Skills for Teachers, Counselling in Schools, and the Teaching of Literature.

As of 1 September 2014, Kasimatis works as an independent Mental Health Counsellor, concentrating on adolescents, couples, and grief.