• Project Manager, Αrt Therapist
• xaidemenaki@gmail.com

Loukia Chaidemenaki is a  researcher psychologist & art therapist (PhDc University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna, ECPh, MSc, MA Arts & Cultural management, Member of BAAT, EFAT, EAP, GPS). She has worked in the field of psychosocial inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in Germany and in the field of psychiatric deinstitutionalization and rehabilitation and in drug addiction rehabilitation in Greece. Loukia teaches Research Methodology in Social Sciences in the Private University Education and has received Grants for the implementation of National and European projects. Clinically, she works for Mental Health Units/psychosocial support of people with lived psychiatric experience through Art and is the Scientific Manager for the social inclusion and supported Living for Adults with Disabilities. At AMAKA NGO, she is the Project Manager for European Funded Projects and implements advocacy programs for the promotion of human rights of people at risk of exclusion through arts and cultural accessibility (Museums) projects for vulnerable groups. She has been scientific associate of the Museum of Cycladic Art for the promotion of accessibility and equal participation of PLDs in the Arts & Culture (2021-2022) and has curated exhibitions for artists with disabilities. She works for the National Arts on Prescription Program at the Music Concert Hall of Athens. In 2022 she designed and implemented an ethnographic research art-based program at Ecuador where she worked with indigenous communities, a project that has been published by the Canadian Journal of Art Therapy.