Maria Psychountaki is a psychologist and a sport psychologist working as an associate professor at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science and the Department of Psychology, University of Athens. She has graduated in both physical education and psychology and she got her PhD in sport psychology in 1998 at the University of Athens. Since 1989 she has had experience in both clinical psychology and sport psychology as a consultant in high level individual and team sports athletes (Sport federations and Olympic Committees in Cyprus and Greece). Her research work is in applied sport psychology topics (individual and team sports); self-confidence, stress management, injured athlete, cohesion and communication in sport teams, psycho-diagnosis, biofeedback, exercise and mood states, and school sports. Furthermore, from 2000 to 2010 she has been the editor of the Journal of Sport Psychology in Greece. From 2000 to 2004 she has been the President of the Hellenic Society of Sport Psychology and from 2003 to 2007 she has been the Vice President of the European Society of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC). She is a member of various national and international societies of psychology and sport psychology.
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