Kort CV

Anika Bexkens is professor Evidence-Based Clinical Practice for Child and Adolescent Mental Health within the Developmental and Educational Psychology section of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She combines this position with her work as a clinical psychologist at GGZ Delfland and LUBEC.

She received her master's degree from the University of Amsterdam in 2007 and obtained her PhD in December 2013, also from the University of Amsterdam. Anika's doctoral project focused on risk behavior in adolescents with mild to borderline intellectual and/or behavioral disabilities. During this scientist-practitioner project, she also trained as a healthcare psychologist and completed this clinical training program in 2011.

She then began working at Leiden University in 2013, where she joined the Developmental and Educational Psychology section.

In 2014, she began working as a healthcare psychologist at GGZ Delfland, where she completed her postmaster clinical psychologist and psychotherapist certification in 2020.

To further integrate science and practice, she joined the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at LUBEC in 2021, where she leads a team focused on diagnostic assessment and treatment of a wide range of developmental and mental health problems, with a special focus on anxiety- and trauma-related problems. In 2023, she began as head of teaching in the post-master's clinical psychology (GZ) program.

She currently combines these roles as professor, clinical psychologist and chief educator, integrating science, practice and teaching.