Ioanna Loizides studied psychology at the Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck, Austria, where she received the title Magistra rerum naturalium (Masters equivalent) in May 2007. Parallel to psychology, she completed the 'Psychotherapeutic Propädeutikum' - the first part of a two-stage training program for psychotherapists. She continued with the Curriculum clinical psychology and health psychology, which she successfully finished in January 2009.