About
About
Dr Alicia Landbeck
Clinical Psychologist, PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, Researcher & University Lecturer
Dr Alicia Landbeck works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
Her clinical and academic background has developed across France and Cambodia, including hospital and child psychiatry settings, child protection, community and humanitarian organisations, and clinical work with individuals and families experiencing significant vulnerability.
These different experiences have shaped a practice attentive to the singularity of each situation, while also considering the relational, family, social and cultural contexts in which psychological difficulties take shape.
Clinical Approach
Dr Alicia Landbeck’s practice is grounded in clinical psychology and psychopathology and focuses on understanding the person’s psychological functioning.
A difficulty or symptom is not considered in isolation. Clinical work seeks to understand its history, its possible function, the psychological and relational processes associated with it, and the resources available to the person.
Her approach is not based on the systematic application of a single therapeutic method. The form of psychological support is developed according to the clinical situation, the person’s request, age, history and individual capacities.
Particular attention is given to subjective experience, relationships, developmental processes and the contexts in which psychological distress emerges.
When working with children and adolescents, the clinical approach takes into account psychological and emotional development, family environment and the different ways in which a child may express their experience. Verbal communication may therefore be complemented by play, drawing or other therapeutic mediations when appropriate.
With adults, couples and families, clinical work may address current difficulties as well as recurring relational patterns, traumatic experiences, separations, major life transitions and patterns of relating that contribute to the individual or family experience.
The aim is to progressively develop a sufficiently precise clinical understanding to provide coherent and individually adapted psychological support, rather than reducing the situation to a symptom or diagnostic category.
Clinical Experience & Professional Positioning
Dr Alicia Landbeck’s clinical experience has developed across a wide range of settings in France and Cambodia.
Her background includes child and adolescent psychiatry, child protection, hospital psychology, psychological work with people experiencing social vulnerability and migration, humanitarian settings, psychological trauma, and clinical work with children and families.
She received specialised clinical training within an intensive child and adolescent psychiatry unit at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, where her work included clinical and family interviews, multidisciplinary clinical work and psychological assessment using psychometric and projective tools.
Clinical work with children exposed to early trauma, emotional and relational deprivation and experiences of maltreatment has also been an important part of both her professional experience and her doctoral research in Cambodia.
Her professional positioning therefore combines psychopathological understanding, attention to relational and developmental processes, flexibility of the therapeutic setting and consideration of the concrete context in which the person is living.
When appropriate, psychological care may also be coordinated with other professionals in order to maintain coherence across the different forms of support involved.
Research, Intercultural Practice & University Teaching
Dr Alicia Landbeck holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, and her research remains closely connected to clinical practice.
Her work has addressed child clinical psychology, early trauma, therapeutic processes, family dynamics, vulnerability, psychological practices and the cultural dimensions of mental health.
A substantial part of her research has been conducted in Cambodia.
Working between France and Cambodia has also placed questions of language, culture and context at the centre of her clinical thinking.
This does not mean reducing psychological difficulties to culture, nor applying clinical models developed elsewhere without considering their relevance. Rather, it involves remaining attentive to the different systems of meaning, representations and environments through which individuals and families understand their experience.
This perspective also informs work across languages and, when needed, clinical work involving an interpreter.
Alongside her clinical and research activities, Dr Alicia Landbeck teaches psychology at university level in France and Cambodia, from undergraduate to graduate level as well as within postgraduate university programmes. Her teaching has included clinical psychology and psychopathology, child and adolescent clinical psychology, research methodology, psychological trauma, early psychological processes and clinical supervision.
Academic Background
PhD in Clinical Psychology & Psychopathology
Doctoral research focused on the development and evaluation of a therapeutic intervention for children exposed to early trauma in Cambodia.
Master’s Degree — Clinical Psychopathology & Family Clinical Psychology
Specialised Clinical Training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry — Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris
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