Since 2016 in training to become a licensed supervisor (to be finished in 2017)
2010 licenced health psychologist (Switzerland, FSP Fachtitel Gesundheitspsychologie)
2005 licenced psychotherapist (CBT) (Approbation als Psychologische Psychtherapeutin, Tübinger Akademie für Verhaltenstherapie) / 2009 licenced child and adolescent psychotherapist
2004 Dr. rer. nat, “Depression prevention through fostering emotion regulation: Expressive writing with adolescents”, Karl Eberhards-University Tübingen, Germany (supervisor Prof. Dr. Martin Hautzinger)
1999 Diploma in Psychology, “The influence of emotional states on basal cognitive processes: A psychophysiological study”. Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany
Professional activities
2010 – 2016 Oberassistenz (senior researcher and lecturer)/ psychotherapist at the psychotherapy center, Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention (chair: Andreas Maercker). Psychology Department, University of Zürich
2005-2009 senior researcher, coordinator of NCCR Project “Individual and social regulation of emotions in the family”, psychotherapist at the out-clinic, Clinical Psychology (chair: Meinrad Perrez), University of Fribourg
2003 – 2005 researcher and lecturer, Health Psychology Section (chair: Harald Traue)/ psychotherapist, Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm; research on expressive writing, language use, e-learning in medical education, teaching (medical psychology, psychological pain therapy)
2003 psychotherapeutical internship, Psychiatry III, University of Ulm
2002 academic stay at the University of Texas at Austin, Dep. of Personality and Social Psychology (chair; James W. Pennebaker)
2001 invited scholar at the Psychology Dep. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia; prevention in adolescence, Yvonne Gomez
2000-2002 PhD-scholarship at DFG graduate school „Life styles, social inequalities, and health promotion“, Clinical Psychology (chair: Martin Hautzinger), Karl Eberhards-University, Tübingen, Germany
1999 research assistant at the German Centre for Research of Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1997 academic stay at the Psychology Dep., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, involvement in research projects on stress and emotion disclosure (B. Dominguez, J.J. Sanchez Sosa)
1996-1999 student research assistant, Dep. of Experimental Psychology, Psychophysiology Section, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany