Biographical Information
Eleni Vousoura, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychopathology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a clinical psychologist in private practice in Athens, Greece. She is a scientific collaborator at the Women's Mental Health Clinic at the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital and a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Women's Mental Health. She is trained in Interpersonal Psychotherapy, an evidence-based psychotherapy for depression and other mental disorders.
Dr. Eleni Vousoura received her B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Athens, Greece, and her M.A. in Psychology in Education (personality and psychopathology track) from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed a 5-year, APA-accredited, doctoral training program in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, New York and completed her pre-doctoral internship at Jacobi Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her doctoral dissertation investigated the impact of psychological distress among mothers in rural sub-Saharan Africa on child health outcomes utilizing data from the Millennium Villages Project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Her scholarly interests lie in the understanding, prevention, assessment, and treatment of common mental health disorders in at risk, underserved populations globally. She specializes in women’s mental health, particularly the prevention, assessment, and treatment of perinatal mental health disorders. She conducts research on women’s reproductive health issues, the impact of parental psychopathology on parent-child attachment and child adjustment, youth mental health, mental health of immigrants and refugees, the influence of culture on psychopathology, psychotherapy process and research outcome, and meta-analytic methodology.
She has participated in a range of international research projects focusing on underserved populations and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles. She is an editorial board member in peer-reviewed journals and a peer reviewer in several international and Greek scientific journals. She is a founding member of the Greek Association for Women’s Mental Health and a member of several scientific associations. She is a scientific collaborator of the Women’s Mental Health Clinic at Eginition Hospital, First Department of Psychiatry, and the Global Mental Health Lab at Columbia University. Her clinical training is broad-based, ranging from community and college counseling settings to hospital outpatient clinics and inpatient medical and psychiatric facilities.
Her clinical training is extensive and broad-based, ranging from community and college counseling settings to hospital-based outpatient clinics and inpatient medical and psychiatric facilities. She has received clinical training in a variety of clinical modalities (individual, group, systems) across a range of theoretical orientations, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, dyadic (mother-infant) therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and family systems.
She specializes in women’s reproductive health issues, including premenstrual symptoms, perinatal (pregnancy and postpartum) mood and anxiety symptoms, as well as menopause-related psychological difficulties. She also specializes in parent-infant relationship issues, including attachment difficulties and disorders.