Manos Christodoulakis

Dr Manos Christodoulakis serves as a Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the School of Social Sciences, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), where he trains MA students in an integrative relational model combining Psychodynamic, Person-Centered, and Gestalt therapies with emphasis on therapeutic phenomenology and intersubjectivity.

His research critically examines Substance Addiction treatment through long-term therapy frameworks, Autoethnography as a transformative qualitative method for understanding lived experience, and the portrayal of 'otherness' in Horror Fiction. He actively investigates synergies between psychotherapy and 12-step fellowships while exploring how cinematic and literary horror reflects societal marginalization.

Dr Christodoulakis supervises graduate-level Autoethnography research projects and co-founded the "Reframe" counselling organization providing therapy access for under-represented populations. As a long-standing member of Bristol's SWAN Project charity, he delivers affordable long-term therapy for substance dependence cases. His private practice integrates Jungian, Gestalt, Existential, and Cognitive-Behavioural therapeutic approaches beyond his academic role.