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Ms Elisavet Tapini

Visiting Lecturer

Contact at tapinieli@regents.ac.uk

Department

School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology

Faculty

HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)

Professional affiliation(s)

• BPS
• BACP

Qualifications

• MA/ Post MA in Counselling Psychology
• BA (Hons)
• Currently undertaking PhD in Psychosocial Studies, University of Brighton

Biography

Elisavet is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, specialising in existential-phenomenological therapy. She has worked in a number of health care settings, providing therapy to a diverse group of clients. She specialises in relational difficulties, identity issues and trauma work. Elisavet has developed a special interest in migrant research since 2002. She is active in psychosocial research, exploring issues of identity, anxiety and belonging. Early in her career, she developed an interest in sociology and philosophy, which has informed her work ever since, addressing theory and practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. She signs as Elisavet (Elisabeth) Tapini, to depict her hybrid identity as a voluntary migrant in an English–spoken country.

Course Development

Elisavet has contributed to the development of the new professional doctorate in Counselling Psychology programme.

PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and examining

• Current Doctoral Research Supervision: Three
• Forthcoming Doctoral Internal Examiner: One

Research Interests

• Skilled Migration
• Guidance and Counselling for Migrants in a EU context
• Skilled Migration, Intra-EU Transnationalism, identity& hybridity in world cities 

Accreditation with professional bodies

•  BPS
•  BACP

Publications 

• Tapini, E. (2010). Psychology of Skilled Migration: Returning Home or Settling Elsewhere in the UK? Paper presented at the Grundtvig Project Guidance and Counselling for migrants and Returnees. Limassol, Cyprus: 27- 29 May

• Tapini, E. & Madison, G. (2010; under review): Psychology of Skilled Migration. The Phenomenology of Return. Paper submitted to International Migration Review. Wiley – Blackwell

• Tapini, E. (2009). Choosing to return: the experience of Greek Skilled migrants who decided to settle back in Greece.
  Poster presented at the BPS/ Division of Counselling Psychology Annual Conference “Riding the tide – Counselling Psychology goes forward”, Warwick, UK, 9- 11 July.

• Tapini, E. Bola, A & Rizou, I. (2005) Perceived feelings of excluder and exclude in vignettes of social exclusion for Greek and Albanian pupils. Poster presented at the 10th Panhellenic Congress of Psychological Research, University of Ioannina, Greece, 1-4 December 2005

• Karakitsou, C., Houndoumadi, A., & Tapini, E. (2005). Strategies suggested by Greek and Albanian Pupils to resolve School-based Dilemmas, and their Possible Relationship to Attitudes Relevant to Ethnic Background. Paper presented at the 9th European Congress of Psychology.Granada, Spain: 3 -8 July 2005