Center for Anxiety
Center for Anxiety (CfA) is based at the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen. The center is a treatment, teaching, and research facility, specializing in internalizing problems (anxiety, OCD, school refusal behaviour and depression) in children, adolescents and adults.
Center for Anxiety is one of the leading institutions offering specialized treatment for anxiety, OCD, school refusal behaviour and depression in Denmark. We excel at being double qualified - that is, we have an extensive theoretical knowledge relating anxiety and depression, and are specialists in treating these problems in youth and adults. Our research shows us what maintains anxiety and depression, and our treatment experience has taught us how to successfully target these factors in treatment.
At Center for Anxiety, we offer cognitive behavioural therapy or metacognitive therapy for children, adolescents and adults. The treatment is conducted either individually or in groups, depending on the problem.
Notice: At the end of the year, the clinic at the Center for Anxiety will close, and the center will transition to being a research unit as well as an educational and supervision institution. Therefore, as of 23 August 2024, the intake of new clients is closed.
- Anxiety disorders:
- Social anxiety disorder
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Specific phobias
- Panic disorder
- Health anxiety
- Agoraphobia
- OCD
- Depressive disorders
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Dysthymia
- Stress
- School refusal behaviour
Notice: At the end of the year, the clinic at the Center for Anxiety will close, and the center will transition to being a research unit as well as an educational and supervision institution. Therefore, as of 23 August 2024, the intake of new clients is closed.
At Center for Anxiety, we place great importance on sharing our expertise in anxiety and depression. We have many years of experience in training and supervising psychologists and interdisciplinary staff in treatment of anxiety and depression. We excel at being able to draw on both international research findings and many years of experience from treatment at CFA clinic.
We offer both standard and tailor-made continuing education and supervision courses for psychologists and other interdisciplinary staff who work with anxious children and young people in municipal and regional institutions.
At Center for Anxiety, we are trying to get one-step closer to understanding why some children and young people develop anxiety and depression and how to quickly and effectively help them overcome these problems. We have therefore i.e. developed a completely new treatment concept, ‘Help for Self-Help’ that involves helping parents to learn how they can help their children. We have received international recognition for our work in finding new ways to help children and young people.
Management
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Sonja Breinholst |
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Monika Walczak |
Psychologists in the clinic
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Maria Cabo Dannow |
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Kerstin Berwing |
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Tove Matzen Drachmann - on maternity leave |
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Katrine Grønbæk Balsby |
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Irene Lundkvist-Houndoumadi |
Student assistants
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Nikoline Bruun Olsen |
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Judith Kofod Techow |
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Yekta Mahrouiyan |
Project coordinator
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Heidi Riiber |
Contact
Sonja Breinholst
Associate Professor
E-mail
Phone: +45 35 32 48 92Monika Walczak
Assistant Professor
E-mail
Phone: +45 35 32 49 43