Stelios Kiosses

Stelios Kiosses is a psychotherapist, Clinical Lead, and educator whose work spans clinical practice, higher education, and public engagement. He specialises in emotional resilience, human connection, and the integration of psychological insight into everyday life.

He is Course Director and Tutor at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Culinary Psychology Programme, an innovative course exploring the relationship between food, emotion, and behaviour. He also serves as Featured Guest Faculty at Harvard Medical School on the Nutrition and Wellness Coaching Programme, teaching on connection and rapport alongside Dr Beth Frates.

Stelios maintains a private clinical practice and provides supervision and consultation to therapists, organisations, and multidisciplinary teams. His work is grounded in psychodynamic thinking, with a focus on depth, meaning, and relational understanding.

He trained in psychodynamic counselling and clinical supervision at the University of Oxford, and in psychotherapy and experimental psychology at BCU and the University of Sussex. He is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).

He is the author of The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room (Karnac Books), and was the resident psychologist and presenter on Channel 4’s The Hoarder Next Door. His forthcoming book, Culinary Psychology, further develops his work on the relationship between food, mind, and wellbeing.