Key details
Natalia Gheorghiu
Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling
Natalia was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling. Before that, she was a Teaching Fellow in Counselling from December 2022. However, she started at the University of Greenwich in September 2022 as an Hourly Paid Lecturer (HPL) after being a student in the MSc Therapeutic Counselling programme. Her background is in counselling young people and adults with additional needs, such as ASD, ADHD and learning disabilities who experienced bereavement, childhood and developmental traumas and sexual abuse.
She initially trained in Humanistic counselling, 9 years ago, and worked as a wellbeing and emotional support worker in a special education school where she managed the emotional drop-in service for children and young people who struggled to manage their anxiety, anger and hyperactive behaviour. Her role involved helping children develop emotional regulation strategies by utilising techniques such as feeling boards, relaxation resources and happiness boxes. Natalia was also responsible for assessing those children and young people who required more intensive support and identifying appropriate external therapeutic agencies.
Currently, Natalia splits her time between her role at Greenwich, lecturing at a small counselling training college in counselling and psychotherapy, whilst concurrently providing integrative counselling sessions to individual clients from diverse backgrounds and psychological presentations, such as depression, anxiety, stress, domestic violence, OCD, ASD.
Post Held previously :
- Ocean Counselling Training LLP - Level 3 & 4 Tutor.
Responsibilities within the university
I deliver counselling theory lecturers to undergraduates, both in person and by pre-recording lectures and materials for students in advance of the face-to-face seminars. During seminars I aim to create an experiential and facilitative learning environment by encouraging students’ innate abilities and inquisitiveness.
As part of this process, I additionally engage with any student queries about the module, assessments and general questions both in person and via email.
My other responsibilities include managing the Moodle page, such as uploading the handouts and recording any key dates or notifications as well as revisiting and updating the module handbook to in readiness for the start of the semester.