People

Affiliate Members

Affiliate members are the direct collaborators belonging and working at the PCLab currently

Emmanuelle Zech, Professor, in charge of the PCLab. After a PhD on the effects of emotion verbalization (2000) and a post-doctorate partly carried out at the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention (Univ. Florida, 2001-2002), she was appointed professor at UCLouvain in 2004. She develops her research in the various axes detailed in the tab "Research projects". She develops her teaching in the fields of the helping relationship, person-centered and experiential psychotherapy, and death and mourning in the various training cycles. She maintains a practice as a clinical psychologist-psychotherapist at the Centre de guidance de Louvain-la-Neuve.

Jochem Willemsen, Professor of clinical psychology at UCLouvain. After completing his PhD on psychopathic personality features and affective disorders in prison detainees (supervised by professor Paul Verhaeghe) at Ghent University, he did postdoc research on the treatment of people with personality disorders and deviant sexuality. From 2014 to 2019, he was as a lecturer at the University of Essex (UK) where he developed his portfolio of teaching and research in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and case study methodology. He co-founded the Single Case Archive (www.singlecasearchive.com), an online repository of published psychotherapy case studies. In 2019, he joined UCLouvain to teach clinical psychology and criminological psychology. His research focusses on psychotherapy processes, in which he often, but not exclusively, relies on qualitative methods. A particular point of interest is the use of the case study method to bridge the gap between research and practice in clinical psychology. Some of the research topics that interest him are the therapist factor in psychotherapy (what does the therapist contribute to effective treatment?), single case methodology (what is a good case study, what can we learn from a case study?) and the treatment of offenders (how do offenders engage in compulsory treatment?). He trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and works in private practice.

Camille Boever is a PhD student in psychology, funded by a FRESH grant (FRS-FNRS). After a master's degree in clinical psychology, she worked for almost three years as a clinical psychologist with children and adolescents in a hospital. She began her thesis in 2021, which aims to examine the experiences and processes of grief after the loss of a loved one in the context of funeral and social restrictions. To do this, she conducted, with Emmanuelle Zech, a longitudinal and mixed-method study among bereaved people who experienced the death of a loved one during the Covid pandemic. Her work seeks to understand the experiences of bereaved people, paying particular attention to subjective and individual processes (assessments, adjustment), diversity of experiences and methodological issues.
 

Hubert de Condé, PhD student and Assistant in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, part-time since 15/09/2020. Graduated with a Master in Clinical Psychology (2018), a Master of Specialization in Integrative Psychotherapy (2019) and a Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy (2022), he is currently following a Certificate in Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy. He consults as an independent psychologist in Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve. His research combines different strands of clinical psychology. His thesis focuses on the integration of the personal and professional aspects of therapists and how they develop over time in this complex profession.

George Fragakis (Prem Adri), clinical psychologist/psychotherapist, doctoral student and assistant in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences on a full-time basis, obtained his BA in Psychology from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (2007-2012). Subsequently, he obtained a Master's degree in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Strathclyde (2012-2016), as well as further Master's degrees in Child Development Psychology from the University of Central Lancashire (2013-2014) and in Conflict and Communication from the National and Capodistrian University of Athens (2016-2018). He has been certified as a psychotherapist by the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) since 2018 and as a trainer in the Person Centred Approach, certified by the European Society for Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy (PCE-Europe) since 2021.

Marie Géonet, Doctor in psychology and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, specialized in conjugal and sexological care. She works as a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology (UCL) and currently holds the position of President of the School of Family and Sexual Sciences. She is also a lecturer at the Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci and offers private consultations in the Brussels region. Her research interests target, on the one hand, the adaptation of couples to oncological disease, both at the relational and sexual level. On the other hand, she is also involved in research on person-centered therapy, more specifically in the context of couple follow-up.
 

Pierre Gérain, hold a PhD in psychology (UCLouvain, 2020). He is an affiliate member of the PCLab and is currently working at the Université libre de Bruxelles (School of Public Health ; Faculty
of Psychology, Educational Sciences, and Speech Therapy). His work is rooted in health psychology with an interdisciplinary emphasis. His main area of research is on informal care, i.e., the care provided to a relative or loved one facing health-related reduced
autonomy, especially regarding their health determinants and their access to support services. His work relies on a combination of different methods, including quantitative and qualitative empirical works, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
 

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Antonin le Maire, graduated in psychology and educational sciences from UCL in 2005 with a thesis on the historical-cultural psychology of Vygotski. Priest since 2017 in Brussels. Currently working on a thesis with two faculties: psychology and theology on the use and functions of the word “paradise”. The aim is firstly to analyse existing data from a survey on values (European Value Survey), the huge database of which is freely accessible; secondly to conduct interviews and surveys to obtain more detailed information on belief in paradise and its psychological usefulness (what role does it play in the event of bereavement, what impact does it have on emotions, the management of terror and social commitment)? and thirdly, to draw theological conclusions by assessing the gap that sometimes exists between a religious concept and what people actually do with it in their lives.
 

Niccolò Fiorentino Polipo, clinical psychologist, is FRS-funded PhD student since 01/10/2021. He holds a bachelor degree in Philosophy from the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan, Italy), a second-cycle degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy), and a master of science in Forensic Psychology from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). He completed his clinical placement at the Cyprus Institute for Psychotherapy (Limassol, Cyprus). He lives in Brussels where he is training as an aspirant Jungian analyst with the Belgian School for Jungian Psychoanalysis. As an independent scholar, he has published on the topic of Jungian psychology and moral philosophy. His doctoral project focuses on the role of deliberate reflective practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. What does it mean to “think psychoanalytically”? Is it a therapeutic skill? Can it be learned/taught?

Nicolas Westrelin Westrelin is a Psychology and Educational sciences PhD student. With his master’s thesis (2018), he investigated professional burn-out and parental burn-out similarities and specifies. Currently, he goes on his work by looking into informal caregiver experience and specifically into informal caregiver burn-out.
In the meantime, he gives lectures in psychology at the Catholic University of Lille, and in emotions management at the Regional Center of Education for Childhood Professional (Lille). He also works as a psychologist for AVANCE (La Madeleine/Lille) in which he intervenes on health at work and professional exhaustion issues.

 Valérie Henry, Administrative Manager CU in PCPE