Specialization
Focus of research
My research focuses on understanding how psychological treatments work and how we can make mental health care more effective, personalized, and accessible. I am particularly interested in early intervention and in finding ways to better tailor psychological support to the needs of individual people.
I obtained my PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 2019. My doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Geert-Jan Stams and Prof. Dr. Susan Bögels, focused on parent and child mentalizing and the role of mentalizing in psychological treatment.
My current research includes projects on treatment mechanisms and the use of methods such as ecological momentary assessment (EMA/ESM) and personalized network approaches to better understand individual patterns and inform treatment. In 2025, I received an NWO Veni grant to investigate how these methods can contribute to more personalized treatment for adolescents with eating disorders.
I am also involved in projects that explore how psychological support can be offered earlier and more accessibly, including interventions that do not necessarily depend on specialist mental health professionals.
Alongside my academic work, I work as a practicing psychologist at Levvel, an academic center for child and youth psychiatry. Combining research with clinical practice is an important part of my work and helps me keep research questions closely connected to the challenges encountered in everyday mental health care.