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Sanne Bruijniks works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University. In addition, she works two days a week as a psychologist at GGZ inGeest 'TOPGGz' department, focusing on the treatment of major depressive disorder. She has close collaborations with the University of Freiburg and Altrecht GGZ, running patient studies. Sanne received her B.Sc. in Psychology from Utrecht University and a M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, along with a M.Sc. in Epidemiology from VU Amsterdam. In 2021, she obtained her PhD with distinction on the topic of 'Improving outcomes in psychotherapy for depression' from VU Amsterdam, where her dissertation was awarded the 'Pieter Boeke Prijs' as the best psychotherapy dissertation in the Netherlands from 2019 to 2021. After completing her PhD, she moved to Germany for three years (2019-2022) to work on an NWO-granted Rubicon project at the University of Freiburg. In 2026, she will begin working on another NWO-granted Veni project titled 'Making Therapy Stick: Learning Strategies for Effective Psychotherapy for Depression.' Her research primarily focuses on experimentally investigating effects of session frequency, mechanisms of change, moderators of psychotherapy for depression, and the role of individual learning processes in psychotherapy success.
Department of Psychology