Kounenou Kalliopi

Kalliopi (Kallia) Kounenou is a Psychologist-Psychotherapist, Professor of Counseling Psychology, Career guidance and family at the Department of Education of ASPETE. She holds a degree in Psychology by the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete, MSc by the Department of Psychology of the City University of London and a PhD by the Department of Primary Education of the Aegean University. She prepared the PhD thesis after receiving a 3year scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation. She received her psychotherapeutic training by the European School of Psychoanalysis and the Hellenic Society for Analytic Group & Family Psychotherapy. She has served in many administrative positions, while she serves as a co-ordinator of the Division of Counselling Psychology of the Hellenic Psychological Society and a member of the National Scientific Committee for the relevance of postgraduate studies with Special Education & School Psychology. She has taught and teaches in a large number of Universities both in undergraduate and postgraduate level. At the University of West Attica, she is the coordinator of the course Counselling Skills of the postgraduate program “Public Health” in the direction of Child & Adolescent Health Promotion-School Health and coordinator of two psychology courses of the postgraduate program entitled “Education Sciences through innovative technologies and Biomedical approaches” .

She also teaches in the 5-year Synthetic Psychotherapy training program organized by the University of Thessaly.

She is a member of five doctoral thesis supervision committees with two of them successfully completed.  She has also supervised a great number of Master theses, most of which have been published in international scientific journals.

She has participated as a scientific director and/or as a member of scientific teams in several scientific/research programs aiming at the application of Counselling Psychology in various education fields and young women empowerment. Her published work lists 42 international and 11 Greek publications, 2 books as well as the editing of volumes, and special issues of Greek and International Scientific Journals.

She works as a psychotherapist and counselling psychologist for adults, couples, and families.