About
About
Dr Alicia Landbeck
Clinical Psychologist, PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, Researcher & University Lecturer
Alicia Landbeck works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
Her clinical and academic background has developed across France and Cambodia, through hospital, child-protection, humanitarian and intercultural settings, as well as work with individuals and families facing situations of psychological or social vulnerability.
These experiences have shaped a clinical practice attentive to the singularity of each person and situation, while also considering the relational, family, developmental, social and cultural contexts in which psychological difficulties emerge.
Clinical Approach
The clinical approach is grounded in clinical psychology and psychopathology and focuses on understanding the person’s psychological functioning in its complexity.
A difficulty or symptom is not considered in isolation. Clinical work seeks to understand its history, what it may express, the psychological and relational processes associated with it, and the resources available to the person.
The 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 environments in which psychological distress takes shape.
With children and adolescents, the clinical approach takes into account psychological and emotional development, family relationships and the different ways 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, grief, major life transitions and family or relational dynamics.
The aim is to progressively develop a clinical understanding that is sufficiently precise to offer coherent and individually adapted psychological support, rather than reducing a person or situation to a symptom or diagnostic category.
Clinical Experience & Professional Positioning
Clinical experience has developed across a range of settings in France and Cambodia, including child and adolescent psychiatry, child protection, hospital psychology, PASS and consultation-liaison psychiatry, intensive care, humanitarian settings and work with people facing social vulnerability.
Work with children and families has held an important place throughout this pathway, particularly in situations involving early trauma, affective and relational deprivation, disruptions in relational bonds, maltreatment and complex family environments.
This experience has contributed to a clinical positioning that combines psychopathological understanding with attention to relational and developmental processes, the therapeutic setting and the concrete environment in which the person lives.
Psychological work is therefore approached within a broader understanding of the person’s history, relationships and current context, rather than through symptoms alone.
When appropriate, care may also be coordinated with psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians or other professionals involved in the situation, with the patient’s or family’s agreement.
Research, Intercultural Practice & University Teaching
Research and clinical practice remain closely connected.
Research interests include child clinical psychology, early trauma, therapeutic processes, family dynamics, situations of vulnerability, psychological practices and the cultural dimensions of mental health. A substantial part of this work has been conducted in Cambodia.
Working between France and Cambodia has also placed questions of language, culture and context at the centre of clinical and research thinking.
This does not mean reducing psychological difficulties to culture, nor applying clinical models without considering the context in which they are used. Rather, it involves remaining attentive to the different systems of meaning, representations and environments through which individuals and families understand and express their experience.
This perspective also informs clinical work across languages and, when needed, work involving an interpreter.
Alongside clinical and research activities, Alicia Landbeck has taught psychology at university level in France and Cambodia, from undergraduate to graduate level and within postgraduate programmes. 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
Université de Bourgogne, Dijon — Psy-DREPI. Doctoral research focused on the development and evaluation of a therapeutic intervention for children exposed to early trauma in Cambodia. PhD supervisor: Prof. Alexandra Laurent.
Master’s Degree — Clinical Psychopathology & Family Clinical Psychology
Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon.
Psychological assessment
Training undertaken as part of university education and further developed through practical clinical experience during a professional placement at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, where psychological assessment formed an important part of the service’s clinical activity.
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