Meet our Educators

Felix Economakis BA (hons), Dipl.Psych., MSc., PG.Dipl.Psychol., Dipl.Hyp., PG.Dipl.Hyp., BSCH, BPS, HPC, CPyschol

Felix has worked in the in the NHS for over 8 years, and has now been working full-time in private practice since 2007. He has a passion for studying many therapeutic approaches and then in combining the therapies studied to produce rapid and powerful interventions for a range of conditions with clients from all over the world. Felix works with a variety of conditions and is also the most prolific practitioner for ARFID in the world today.

Felix is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and clinical hypnotist. He also holds a master practitioner in NLP. He has successfully treated hundreds of clients who have not benefited from previous therapies. He has been challenged by journalists to cure their phobias and has featured on numerous TV, radio and magazine articles (including BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, GMTV, Sky News, The Alan Tichmarsh Show and The Wright Stuff) on a variety of topics, as well as being a therapist on:

• BBC3s Panic Room (extreme phobias)
• Freaky Eaters (Series 3)  – 6 clients with ARFID
• Blue Peter (got presenter with fear of water to swim)
• BBC1s ‘My Hoarder Mum and Me & Britain’s Biggest Hoarders’ (helped presenter Jasmin Harmin’s mother)
• German TV channel Prosieben (one session treatment for ARFID)
• FUJI channel Japan (two live therapy one-session treatments sessions with ARFID)
• Channel 4’s ‘Food Unwrapped’ (another live single joint therapy session with two people with ARFID)
• UKTV-W series ‘Extreme Food Phobics’ (working with 12 extreme clients with ARFID. I also trained the other two therapists on the series)