Anastassis Spilliadis

Short bio
Anastassis is a consultant systemic and family psychotherapist (UK) and a psychologist (registered in Greece). He works both with individuals and systems / relationships across the lifespan, having previously held senior clinical and supervisory / training roles at the Maudsley Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. At the Tavistock, Anastassis established and led the first Family Therapy Service in the NHS for gender-questioning youth.

Anastassis specialises in embodied distress, including gender-related distress in youth and adulthood. He continues to train and supervise frontline NHS staff on the subject, having recently co-led the induction training for the new NHS Children and Young People Gender Hubs in collaboration with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in the UK. He is currently co-authoring a book on developmentally-informed therapy for gender-related distress in children and is advocating for an evidence-based approach to treating gender-related distress. Finally he works as a visiting lecturer at King’s College London and currently completing his doctorate on female embodied distress.