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Dr. Ioanna Katsounari is the Supervising Psychologist at the Unit for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. Ioanna obtained her Bachelors degree in Psychology in the UK, followed by post-graduate studies in Clinical Psychology in Chicago. She has extensive clinical experience working with children, families, and adults in community and hospital settings in Chicago, Illinois. Ioanna completed her doctoral internship within an Illinois State inpatient psychiatric hospital where she provided short-term individual and group psychotherapy to residents in acute and long-term psychiatric units. She has worked with survivors of torture both in the U.S and Cyprus. Her research interests include PTSD related to war, torture, and forced displacement, affective and anxiety disorders, psychotic-spectrum disorders, social exclusion and migration.