Yolanda Koumidou-Vlesmas, LCSW

150 Piccadilly Downs
Lynbrook, NY
USA, 11563

516 568-0306

ykoumidou@gmail.com
www.dietingknowmore.com

I created the Inner Eater System in 2007, a psycho-spiritual weight maintainance approach utilizing the Theory of the Psychology of Selves and the Voice Dialogue method.

Additional services include, retreats at the Quietude Retreat Center, face-to-face and virtual psychotherapy for individuals and couples.

Through my extensive experience interweaving traditional approaches with psycho-spiritual disciplines, the following theories and modalities serve as the foundation of my work: the theory of the Psychology of Selves and the Voice Dialogue Method, the teachings of Meher Baba, the Quantum Physics theory and the use of hypnotherapy, art, movement, dream work and energetics.

Languages Spoken: English and Greek

Detailed information

About This Practice

Practicing Since 1986
Teaching Since 1996

Additional Modalities: Individual, Couples and Family Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, A.R.T. (Awareness Release Technique), Dream work, Energy Clearing and Energy Work.

Areas of Interest: Inclusion and emphasis on the transcendental aspect of the Psychology of Selves and work with the Inner Eater Selves, the parts of our personality that eat without awareness.

Degree
Title/Field	School	Date
MSW	Hunter Graduate School of Social work	1985

License
Title	State	Date
LCSW	NY	1986

Certification
Type	Granting Organization	Date
BCD	National Association of Social Workers
CHt	The Wellness Institute

Professional Background
Yolanda Koumidou-Vlesmas, author of Responding to Loneliness and Longing and The Inner Eater Selves, has been accompanying people on their voyages of self-exploration for almost forty years. Her practice involves interweaving age-old disciplines with cutting-edge approaches. She has been a consultant for mental health professionals, director of substance abuse treatment facilities and adjunct professor at CUNY. She developed the Inner Eater Selves System, a psycho-spiritual approach to weight maintenance and the Inner Life Mentoring International™, an individual retreat model. For fifteen years she organized and lead international group retreats for inner life exploration in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Throughout her career, Yolanda maintains a thriving private practice in New York with national and international clientele, both in-person and through Teletherapy. In addition to the NYSED CE approved Webinars, she also offers in-person CE approved courses at her Quietude Retreat Center in upstate New York.

Professional Background

Yolanda Koumidou-Vlesmas, author of Responding to Loneliness and Longing and The Inner Eater Selves, has been accompanying people on their voyages of self-exploration for almost forty years. Her practice involves interweaving age-old disciplines with cutting-edge approaches. She has been a consultant for mental health professionals, director of substance abuse treatment facilities and adjunct professor at CUNY. She developed the Inner Eater Selves System, a psycho-spiritual approach to weight maintenance and the Inner Life Mentoring International™, an individual retreat model. For fifteen years she organized and lead international group retreats for inner life exploration in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Throughout her career, Yolanda maintains a thriving private practice in New York with national and international clientele, both in-person and through Teletherapy. In addition to the NYSED CE approved Webinars, she also offers in-person CE approved courses at her Quietude Retreat Center in upstate New York.

Basic Voice Dialogue Training(s)
Title	Where	When	Hours / Days	Teacher(s)
Level I Intensive	New Jersey, USA	February, 1996	36 hours, 6 days	James Cotten
Level II Intensive	Albion, California	May, 1998	36 hours, 5 days	Hal and Sidra Stone and staff
Level III Intensive	Albion California	September, 2001	36 hours, 5 days	Hal and Sidra Stone and staff
Energetics	Los Angeles, California	June, 2003	10 hours	Dr. Laurence Novick
Consultations	Albion, California	2004-2019	50 hours	Hal and Sidra Stone

Continuing Voice Dialogue Education^*
Title	Where	When	Hours / Days	Teacher(s)
Level II and III Intensives	Albion, California	2005-2010	Senior Staff at 4 Delos Intensives, 180 hours	Hal and Sidra Stone

Yolanda Koumidou-Vlesmas, LCSW

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