Barbora Jakobsen is a clinical psychologist. She received her MA in psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc. Since 2008 she has been working in Norway. She has worked at both a psychiatric centre and an addiction centre. She specialises in violence in close relationships and has been the head of the ATV Centre in Tromsø for the last 6 years. She is active as a psychotherapist, carries out training and supervisions and was responsible for the cooperation with the Czech side at ATV.