Research Interests 

• Expectations of psychotherapy and how they change
• Warmth and competence of psychotherapists
• Competence-oriented psychotherapy
• PErceived CAusal Networks (PECANs) for treatment selection

Links

• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate

Curriculum Vitae

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  10/2020 – 09/2023	PhD in Psychology (Dr.rer.nat.), AE Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, Philipps University Marburg Doctoral thesis: „Outcome Expectations in Psychotherapy: The Development of an Indirect Measurement and the Importance of the Therapist’s Warmth and Competence“. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
  10/2020 – 10/2024	Postgraduate training as a psychological psychotherapist (cognitive-behavioral therapy), Institute for Psychotherapy Training Marburg (IPAM)
  10/2019 – 08/2020	Master's degree in Psychology, University of Tuebingen (M.Sc.) Master's thesis: „Do Bayes factors support the effect of high definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD tDCS) over the left inferior frontal cortex (IFC) to modulate inhibition?“
  10/2015 – 09/2019	Bachelor's degree in Psychology, University of Tuebingen (B.Sc.)

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  Since 12/2024	Postdoctoral researcher, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, Philipps University Marburg
  10/2023 – 09/2024	Therapist at the Vitos psychiatric day clinic in Marburg
  10/2020 – 09/2023	Doctoral position in the Research Training Group 2271 “Breaking Expectations”, AE Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg
  10/2020 – 09/2023	Therapist, Psychotherapy Outpatient Clinic Marburg (PAM)
  07/2016 - 09/2020	Research Assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen

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  07/2026 – 07/2026	Visiting researcher, Department of Psychology, King’s College (Jamie Delgadillo), London, UK
  09/2025-11/2025	Visiting researcher, Department of Psychology, Mind and Body Lab (Alia Crum), Stanford University, USA
  07/2018 - 11/2018	Semester abroad, Monash University Melbourne, Australia

Teaching

Teaching in Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in psychology (seminar on anxiety disorders, seminar on self-reflection)
Teaching at the Marburg Psychotherapy Outpatient Clinic for psychotherapists in training (seminar on behavioral analysis)

Awards

Teaching award 2nd place | Best seminar summer semester 2025
Teaching award 1st place | Best seminar summer semester 2023
Teaching award 1st place | Best seminar winter semester 2022/23

Selected Publications

Seewald, A., & Rief, W. (2023). How to change negative outcome expectations in psychotherapy? The role of the therapist’s warmth and competence. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(1), 149-163.

Seewald, A., & Rief, W. (2023). Therapist's warmth and competence increased positive outcome expectations and alliance in an analogue experiment. Psychotherapy Research, 1-16.

Seewald, A., Schummer, S. E., Franz, S., Franz, M., & Rief, W. (2025). Networks for treatment selection in psychotherapy: Providing a manual for process-based perceived causal networks. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Seewald, A., Teige-Mocigemba, S., & Rief, W. (2023). Outcome expectations in psychotherapy: Validation of the Therapy single category implicit association test (Therapy SC-IAT). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-15.

Borgmann, A., Petrie, K., Seewald, A., & Shedden Mora, M. (2024). Can side effect expectations be assessed implicitly? A comparison of explicit and implicit measures focusing on COVID-19 and flu vaccination. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 179, 111616.