Professor Katherine Stavrianopoulos Wins International Impact Book Award

Hearts Unlocked: Six Essential Practices for Healthy Connections & Intimate Relationships by Dr. Katherine Stavrianopoulos (as Kathy Stavros) received an International Impact Book Award, an annual honor dedicated to recognizing, celebrating and elevating exceptional authors and powerful stories. Stavrianopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Services.    
 
Hearts Unlocked draws on Stavrianopoulos’s work in the classroom and clinical practice with couples. After fifteen years of helping people from their twenties to their sixties revolutionize their love lives, she discovered that thriving relationships require a new approach: one that builds unshakeable self-confidence. Her book offers a proven framework that’s helped hundreds break destructive patterns and build the love they deserve. 

Stavrianopoulos’s other publications include “Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Rebuilding Family Bonds in Family Therapy: New Intervention Programs and Researches by Floriana Irtelli, “Enhancing Relationship Satisfaction among College Student Couples: An Emotionally Focused Therapy Approach in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy and “Changing College Students’ Perceptions and Participation in Organ Donation: A Classroom and Service Learning Intervention in the Journal of Distress and Homelessness, 

Stavrianopoulos is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor and a founding member of NYCEFT, where she serves on the Board of Directors. She received a PhD in educational psychology and a MA in school psychology from Fordham University. Read Stavrianopoulos's full biography.