Cleopatra earned a B.A. in Psychology from the American College of Greece (Deree College) and continued her postgraduate studies at Lesley University in Boston where she received a Master of Education M.Ed. in Special Education. Since then, she has been designing and implementing individualized educational programs for students with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, behavioral problems and intellectual disabilities. As a special educator, she also worked at the American Community Schools of Athens with middle and high school students with learning difficulties. At the same time, for many years she worked with the P.I.K.P.A.
She has specialized in Person-Centred Approach and as a counsellor she has worked at the Delfinakia day care centre and as a volunteer at the Craniofacial Centre of Athens where she offered emotional support to children and adults with craniofacial abnormalities.
She has been a lecturer for several years in the Adult Education Program of the Hellenic American Educational Foundation (Athens College) on topics related to parent-child relationships. For the last sixteen years, she has been coordinating and participating in seminars, lectures and parent groups in collaboration with municipalities in Attica.
Since 2007 she is a member of the Academic Staff of the Department of Psychology of ICPS.
In her spare time she is involved in writing children’s stories and short stories.