Biography:

Siebrecht Vanhooren, PhD, is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium.

He teaches counseling skills, psychological interventions, and humanistic, person-centered, experiential, focusing and existential psychotherapies at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. He is the director of the person-centered therapy training programs and the existential well-being counseling program at KU Leuven.

He is a senior staff member of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, the Research Group Clinical Psychology, the Meaning & Existence research center, and the Experiential-Existential Psychotherapy Center (EEP Center) at KU Leuven. He is a committee member of The Eugene T. Gendlin Center for Research in Experiential Philosophy and Psychology at The Focusing Institute (New York). His research includes existential concerns, meaning in life, post-traumatic growth, experiential-existential psychotherapy, focusing, dreamwork, and existential empathy.

He also works as a person-centered experiential-existential psychotherapist, supervisor, and dream-work facilitator at PraxisP (KU Leuven). Last but not least, he loves spending time with his family and friends, hiking in nature, gardening, stargazing, and volunteering in his local community.