Introducing fellow Saskia Scholten

Saskia Scholten is a licensed psychotherapist and post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Dr. Julia Anna Glombiewski. Her current activities lie within the field of personalized psychotherapy and psychotherapy training. She examines the potential to integrate ecological momentary assessment, N=1 networks, and single case designs to enhance clinical decision-making. More precisely, she works on the integration of theory-based and data-driven methods for case conceptualization that may inform idiographic models of psychopathology. With Julia, Saskia is expanding her research to chronic pain patients and is about to complete her first treatment study "Process-oriented individualized network-based therapy for chronic pain". In addition to psychotherapy research, her interests include cross-cultural (clinical) psychology and macrosocial determinants of mental health.

Passionate therapist

Improving clinical decision-making is at the core of her research because Saskia is also a passionate therapist. Being a licensed psychotherapist in Germany implies extensive clinical and theoretical training (including 1-year inpatient work, 1,000+ hours outpatient therapy, ~800 hours workshops/supervision), which Saskia completed in parallel to her PhD. She still sees patients on a regular basis, supervises therapists in clinical training, and is giving workshops regarding therapeutic alliance and the use of intensive longitudinal data in clinical practice.