Kristyan Kouri, Ph.D is a psychotherapist who works with adults, children, adolescents, couples and families. She is trained in person centered therapy, solution focused therapy, and structural family therapy. Dr. Kouri first began to practice as a student at the University of Southern California, where she earned her MA and Ph.D in 1994. As a student clinician, she worked under the direction of Dr. Constance Ahrons, author of the good divorce. For psychotherapeutic services, please contact her at: kristyanphd@gmail.com.

Dr. Kouri is also a lecturer/professor emerita in Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies the at CSU, Northridge — a postition she held for thirty years. There she taught courses which pertain to counseling. Some of these courses include Introduction to Counseling, Women, Work and the Family, and Sociological Theory. A number of the sociological theories underpin major counseling techniques such as “exchange theory,” Georg Simmel’s work on dyads and triads, and George Herbert Mead’s work on how the family impacts the emergence of the mind, Sigmund Freud’s work on the ways in which family dynamics impact personality development. analysis on how the family.