A selection of current projects:
- Effectiveness and working mechanisms of acceptance-based, body-focused treatment for problematic grief (Prolonged Grief Disorder). (PhD student starts in 2024)
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Sleep Restriction Therapy for Insomnia. (PhD student: Mathilde Looman)
- Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction training (MBSR) on emotional processing and body awareness.
- The relationships between emotional processing, body awareness, and emotional disorders (Depression & Social Anxiety).
Up to 2017, my main research topic concerned addiction. In 2009, I obtained my PhD in Experimental Psychopathology, publishing the first clinical RCT on Cognitive Bias Modification in addiction. From 2008 to 2017 I worked as a research manager in institutes for applied scientific research (IVO and Nivel). There, I supervised research projects on addictions (e.g., treatment, early interventions, etiology, epidemiology) and on the organization of local health care.