Biography and CV

Brief biography

In my PhD, I applied a systematic psychotherapy research approach to examine the clinical effectiveness of computerized cognitive trainings given as an add-on to regular inpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder to support relapse prevention after treatment. Herein, among others, I focused on measurement and modification of automatic approach-avoidance tendencies.

I am interested in the measurement and modification of cognitive biases (including interpretation biases) in the area of emotional psychopathology (including PTSD and depression).

Furthermore, I am interested in the role of transdiagnostic processes (e.g., anhedonia, rumination) in the development and maintenance of disorders in the area of emotional psychopathology (including cognitive biases) and their modification through psychotherapy.

I am also a licensed psychological psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) with particular expertise the treatment of depressive disorders and prolonged grief disorder, both in the individual- and group setting.

Scientific and Clinical Career

November 2024- present

Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology and Licensed Psychological Psychotherapist at the Therapie – and Beratungszentrum of the Georg-Elias-Mueller-Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen.

 November 2024- present

Licensed Psychological Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) at the Therapie – and Beratungszentrum of the Georg-Elias-Mueller-Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen.

2021- present

PhD-Student in Clinical Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment at the Behavioural Science Institute,

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands  

2019-2023

Research Assistant, Department of Clinical Psychology, Medical School Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany

2019-2024

Psychological Psychotherapist at the Salus Klinik Lindow, Germany

2019

Docent in the course „Bachelor Thesis “. Supervision of students in their bachelor thesis in Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2018-2019

Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2015-2016

Student Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Donders Institute Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

Academic and Clinical Qualifications

2021- present

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment at the Behavioural Science Institute,

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands  

2019-2023

Psychotherapist in Training focusing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the
Salus Institut für Verhaltenstherapie, Graduation (Approbation) 2023

2016-2018

M.Sc. in Behavioural Science (cum laude), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2014 -2016

M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology (bene meritum), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2014

Summer School, University of California at Berkeley, USA

2011-2014

B.Sc. in Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

Other External Professional Activities 

  • Association for Cognitive Bias Modification 
  • Deutsche Psychotherapeuten Vereinigung