Marianna Antonakaki is the founder of NowLetsPlay®TM, a model for children, parents, and educators that has been recognised and registered as original research in the Counseling and Therapeutic sector, with a focus on Neurolinguistics and Play. (Reg Certificate No. 00003709405, Registrar of the Intellectual Property Office).

She is an Applied Psychology Scholar at the University of Derby UK.
She is a Mindset Trainer & Consultant, as well as an Affiliated Partner of the International Certification for Business Coaches & Consultants in The SFM MINDSETMAPS®TM programme, which was developed by Robert Dilts & Mickey Feher, for the Greek language, Greece, and Cyprus.

She is also a Design Thinking expert consultant, a member of the Digital Transformation Movement from Stanford University, CA , and a participant in a research group on the Psychology of the Next Generation Investor.

She began her academic career as a graduate of the Department of French Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of EKPA; nevertheless, her love for Communication, Arts, and Humanities swiftly altered the orientation of the compass at the professional and university levels. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from Middlesex University and AKTO while simultaneously beginning to write articles and run communication and press departments in corporations. In the 20 years that followed professionally, Marianna carved out a significant path in the Media, holding he position of editing director at Cigar and Men’s Arena magazines, serving as a columnist and editor for numerous magazines and newspapers, and contributing to the international News Bulletin from STAR TV, as well as appearing on the radio for 35 stations of the region and 2 stations of Cyprus, while collaborating with advertising agencies. The combination of motherhood, her greatest experiential gift, and the global economic crisis rearranged her professional road map for the second time.

NLP University of California Santa Cruz certified her as a Global NLP Trainer & Consultant, and she is also a certified NLP New Code Practitioner, (ITA), and a certified Ericksonian Hypnosis Certified Practitioner, Marianna Antonakaki is a proud member of the nlpgreece® NLP Global Trainers team.

In the past decade, she has pursued postgraduate studies in Infant Psychotherapy (First Play in Therapy, Diploma Barry University Miami – FAIMH) and in Psychotherapy through Special Therapeutic Play, while she is an active supervised member of Play Therapy International and the only certified Consultant in Greece for the clinical diagnosis of disorders in infants and toddlers – DC 0-5.

Marianna is a Meta-trauma & PTSD Prevention Counselor & Trainer with Meta International Inc, a Certified Trauma Therapist and member of the International Association for Eye Movement TraumaTherapy, a Story Play® Ericksonian Non-Directive Model for Play Practitioner, Circle Of Security Model Certified Practitioner, and an active member of NBCC as a certified Mental Health Facilitator.

She is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Project Parenting Scientific Associates Team. Also she is a member of Mental Space Psychology and a consultant for the Social Panorama Program’s Family & Education division.

She holds a Diploma in Phototherapy & Photo Art Therapy from the Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen and is a Trainer in the Points Of You® Method, which is based on Phototherapy and Neurolinguistics.

She is an activist of Soroptimism, the Global Organization for the elimination of violence against women and the defence of women’s and children’s rights, in addition to being a scientific advisor and founding member of the Organization “Stronger Together – Mazi pio Dyantes” for the empowerment of women and female entrepreneurship.

He is fluent in English, French, and Italian, has authored three therapeutic fairy tales and three scientific ebooks for parents and children, and is currently an active writer.