Specialist in Clinical Psychology, Altenativ Til Vold, Norway
She is a clinical psychologist from Bergen University. She works as a clinical psychologist at ATV Stavanger since 2008. She has experience in clinical work with men who use IPV, women who experience intimate partner violence and mothers and toddler dyads who have traumatic reactions after experiencing violence in the family. Since 2011, she is in charge of research project “How do men who use IPV experience the relationship to their children?” Since 2016, with this project she is enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. She is a co-author of “Parental Reflective Functioning in Men who Use Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from a Norwegian Clinical Sample” (Nordic Psychology, 2016), “Mentalization or Affect Consciousness? A Comparison of Two Concepts with Regard to Affect Development and Affect Regulation” (Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2006).
motto: Violence is based on fear. Fear feeds on loneliness. Relationships heal through the co-creation of meaning.
