She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina in 1990 and continued her postgraduate studies in Paris (Université Paris VIII). She specialized in psychoanalysis and worked in several psychiatric Institutions in Paris, where she stayed until 2000. At that time she attended Art History courses at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne – Paris). Along with her clinical work she has translated works of French psychoanalysts, such as J. Kristeva and J.-R. Freymann in Kastaniotis publications. She lives and works in Athens.