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Professor in Clinical Psychology at Université Grenoble Alpes.
I have initial training in clinical psychology, specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Porto Alegre – Brazil, under the direction of Professor Margareth da Silva Oliveira). Subsequently, I obtained a Master’s Degree and a PhD in psychology at the University Paul Valery, Montpellier 3 (direction Professor Stéphane Raffard). During my three-year PhD, I also worked as a clinical psychologist at the Department of Adult Psychiatry, CHU Montpellier (Professor Delphine Capdevielle). I received my PhD in Psychology from the Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, funded by the European Project FP7 AlterEgo.
My research focuses on studying transdiagnostic psychological processes underlying emotional regulation and psychotic experiences (e.g., hallucinations and delusions). It also aims at developing and testing different forms of interventions seeking to improve emotion regulation and coping with psychotic experiences. I also have a particular interest in the measurement of psychotic experiences. My work has received support from the ANR and, more recently, the CerCog.
Currently, I teach psychopathology and introduction to CBT interventions at the Bachelor's level and transdiagnostic process underlying psychopathology and suicide assessment at the Master's level. I also teach CBT for psychosis in continuing education (DU TCC Nice).
Since 2022, I have been a Institut Universitaire de France member.
I serve as a co-chair of Early Career Researcher on Hallucination. In addition, I am an Associated editor of the Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice and actively review for top journals in my field of research (e.g., Schizophrenia Research, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy). I have the privilege of collaborating with different researchers around the world.
You can find more about my work in Research Gate and Google Scholar.
Catherine Bortolon
Previous PhD
I graduated in 2020 with a Master in Clinical Psychology (Master Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Psychopathology – University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) and have received in 2023 a PhD in clinical psychology at Grenoble Alpes University, conducted under the supervision of Catherine Bortolon and Céline Baeyens and funded by a doctoral contract. As a clinical psychologist, I am completing my training with a three-year Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy training (DIU TCC – Lyon Chambéry).
My research focuses on studying emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic process and, more specifically, how emotion regulation is synchronised with contextual elements (i.e., emotion regulation flexibility). I have a special interest in daily measures (Experience Sampling Method) and also study the clinical implications related to the concept of flexibility.
Carla Nardelli
PhD Student (2022 - present)
I graduated in 2021 with a Master degree in Clinical Psychology (Master Clinical Practices - Grenoble Alpes University) and in 2022 with a University Diploma of one year of Positive Psychology (Positive Psychology - Grenoble Alpes University). During them, I was able to increase my knowledge in both clinical practice and research by having different internships (e.g. daycare hospital for substance abuse, project manager at Limoges University in the FrED laboratory, research assistant at Grenoble Alpes University, in the LIP/PC2S laboratory). In September 2022, I began my PhD under the supervision of Catherine Bortolon and Clément Dondé at the Grenoble Alpes University.
My research focused on auditory hallucinations and the different processes (i.e. sensorial, cognitive, and emotional) and their interaction with each other on the rise, maintenance, and characteristics of auditory hallucinations in a clinical sample (i.e. schizophrenia) and the general population.
Camille Jacquet
PhD Student (2023 - present)
In 2022, I graduated with a Master's in clinical psychology (mention process-based cognitive-behavioural clinical psychology) from the University of Grenoble Alpes. I have carried out several internships and professional experiences with different clinical populations (children, adults, elderly, and people in situations of illness or isolation).
In October 2023, I started a PhD in clinical psychology at the Université Grenoble Alpes under the supervision of Catherine Bortolon and Céline Baeyens. My PhD project focuses on the study of emotion regulation and psychotic experiences, and to be more precise, we want to study the notion of flexibility in emotion regulation with people who have experienced psychosis. I am also interested in using more ecological measures (i.e. experience sampling methods) and adopting a multiple methodological approach to study psychological and transdiagnostic processes.
Emma Rolland-Carlichi
PhD Student (2022 - present)
I graduated from the University of Warsaw in 2018 with an MA in General Psychology. I have had a clinical internship in the Railway hospital in Kyiv, at the department specialising in somatic disorders. Since 2019, I worked in public health research at the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and later as a project manager in CO “100%Life”.
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I moved to Grenoble to study at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where I have started my PhD in clinical psychology in 2022 under the supervision of Catherine Bortolon. My PhD is focused on the topic of loneliness, social isolation and its relation to psychotic experiences. Additionally, I am interested in studying the measurement quality of questionnaires of psychotic experiences and their overlap.
Mariia Goncharova
Post-doctoral researcher
After completing my thesis in cognitive psychology at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in 2018, I spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de technologie de Troyes, working on educational guidance for secondary school students. Since February 2024, I have been working on hallucinations and mental imagery with Catherine Bortolon at the LIP/PC2S and other researchers at the LPNC at the University of Grenoble-Alpes. The aim is to study the continuum of hallucinations using a phenomenological approach to better understand the similarities and differences between the different phenomena.
