Dr Yianna Ioannou

Dr Yianna Ioannou is a registered Clinical Psychologist and is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and the Program Coordinator of the MSc Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nicosia. She is also a Clinical Supervisor at the Center for Therapy, Training and Research (KESY). Dr Ioannou received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds Bachelor degrees in both Psychology and Comparative Literature from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Dr Ioannou currently chairs the Working Group for the Development of Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development of the Cyprus Psychologists Association. She also serves on the Management Committee of the COST Action Digital Mental Health for Young People. From January 2018 to January 2024, she served as the co-chair of the International Relations Committee of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. In the past, she served as the National Representative for Cyprus on the Management Committee of the COST Action TREATME (European Network on Individualized Psychotherapy Treatment of Young People with Mental Disorders), as a member of the Cyprus Board for the Registration of Psychologists, as an Executive Board Member of the Cyprus Psychologists Association and as a Member of the Board of Professional Development of the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA). Her academic and research interests include psychoanalytic theory and practice, the intersection between psychology and the humanities, cumulative and complex trauma, severe psychopathology, psychotherapy process and outcome research and clinical supervision. Her work has been published widely in top-tier academic journals. Dr Ioannou was a 2017 Teacher in the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her article “Psychoanalysis, Time and the Crisis of Truth” (2016, Psychoanalytic Psychology) was a 2017 Nominee for the Gradiva Award of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (United States). Dr Ioannou is also in private practice in Nicosia, Cyprus.