Team
Thomas is a cognitive psychologist and psychotherapist and Head of International Psychology Programmes at SFU. He did his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. Thomas’ research focuses on cognition and consciousness and on clinical topics including addiction and social anxiety.
Lisa is a psychotherapist. She works with individuals, couples and groups in her private psychotherapy practice in Vienna. Lisa “discovered” the name saying problematic now known as alexinomia as early as 1995 and was the first to describe the phenomenon in her article in 2019. Since then Lisa works with people affected by alexinomia in both individual and group settings in Vienna as well as internationally online (https://www.lisawelleschik.at/alexinomie-coaching/).
Anikó is a PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology at SFU. Her research investigates the neurobiological underpinnings of alexinomia using EEG, EDA, and fMRI. Other research interests include scale development, identity formation, sleep and consciousness. Anikó teaches neuroscience in the Bachelor’s programme.
Alexis is currently in her postgraduate training to become a clinical psychologist. She works at the SFU outpatient clinic and teaches Developmental Psychology in the Bachelor’s programme. In her research on alexinomia, Alexis is looking at people’s attitudes towards their own names and how these are linked to their sense of identity.
Victoria is a Master’s student in the Clinical Psychology and Public Mental Health Master’s at SFU. She is working as a research student in the Alexinomia Research Programme contributing to several projects including the development of a psychometric scale and qualitative research on alexinomia and identity.