Maaike Afschrift
Maaike Afschrift is a clinical psychologist (1997) and client-centered and experiential psychotherapist (2001), specialised in Focusing and Focusing Oriented Therapy (2015). She's a certifying coordinator of The International Focusing Institute (New York). She started her career in CGG Noord-West-Vlaanderen, Bruges, where she worked for fifteen years with adults (individuals and groups). From 2008 to 2018 she was involved in different education and training programs for mental health care professionals. Today she has a private practice with psychotherapy, supervision, and training & education in Focusing and FOT as main activities. Since 2019, she has also been editor of Tijdschrift Persoonsgerichte Experiëntiële Psychotherapie. She published several articles on focusing oriented therapy, and loves writing and talking from and about human experiential processes. As a teaching assistant within our lab, she's involved in the course 'Clinical psychological skills and diagnostics'. Within the Family lab she is involved in the course 'Case studies - intervention'
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Tine Vervoort
Tine Vervoort is Associate Professor & Head of the Health Equity Advancement Lab in Ghent. She leads a theoretically integrative and clinically informative program of research on interpersonal dynamics in pain and mental health care ...
Ama Kissi
Ama Kissi co-leads the Health Equity Advancement Lab in Ghent and holds a position as senior post-doctoral researcher. Her research concerns innovative work on the psychosocial determinants of racism in pain and mental health care...
Fleur Baert
Fleur Baert is a senior post-doctoral fellow in the lab whose current research centers on intersectional dynamics of credibility and communication within chronic pain care ...
Maité Van Alboom
Maité Van Alboom is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab. She has conducted stigma research for several years. Her current work expands this focus to aging, examining ageism, existential concerns, and mental well-being among older adults through an intersectional lens...
Aline Wauters
Aline Wauters is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab coordinating and leading research on memory for pain and birth related experiences and overall perinatal mental health...
Dimitri Van Ryckeghem
Dimitri Van Ryckeghem is a visiting professor at Ghent University and assistant Professor at Maastricht University. He adds expertise in pain psychology and digital interventions to enrich the lab’s focus on empathy and human experience ...
