Arthur Gavalas

I am a French psychiatrist (MD, Specialised Diploma in Psychiatry) with a doctoral thesis on Sigma-1 receptor modulation and several years of clinical experience across inpatient units, transcultural emergency psychiatry, structured psychotherapy, and intensive telepsychiatry. Remote work is a format I have been using daily for years and one in which I am fully comfortable.
I work as a performance and development coach, with a focus on mental clarity, emotional intelligence, and helping people unlock what they are not yet using. My approach draws on cognitive-behavioural frameworks, neuroscience-informed tools, NLP, and a long-standing personal practice of contemplative meditation (Zazen, Vipassana). I believe that professional fulfilment and personal growth are inseparable, and I build my coaching around that conviction.
Working with students and educators is a context I find genuinely meaningful. Academic environments carry their own specific pressures (performance anxiety, self-doubt, emotional exhaustion, difficulty translating potential into results). These are exactly the areas where my background, both clinical and human, allows me to offer something concrete and lasting.
I bring strong cross-cultural sensitivity and communicate fluently in French, Greek and English, with working knowledge of German and ongoing study of Russian, Arabic and Hebrew.