Treatment methods

How I work

Three methods, used in combination rather than in sequence. Which one leads depends on what you bring.

01

ISTDP

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy is an accelerated form of psychodynamic therapy. It focuses on identifying unconscious defences and resistance that block deep, avoided emotions. By experiencing these suppressed feelings in real time with the therapist, many people find relief from psychosomatic symptoms and can work with long-standing emotional blocks that otherwise stay out of reach. How far we take that, and at what pace, is decided together. More about ISTDP

02

MBT

Mentalization-Based Treatment focuses on developing the capacity to mentalize: the ability to understand the thoughts, feelings and intentions behind one’s own behaviour and that of others. Originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder, it is now widely used to help people regulate intense emotions and improve relationship stability by making sense of complex internal experiences. More about MBT

03

ACT

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is what I use for more concrete, short-term work on anxiety and low mood. It offers practical tools for making room for difficult thoughts and feelings instead of being run by them, and for working out what matters to you and acting on it.

My group work is grounded in group analysis: I trained at the Norwegian Institute for Group Analysis and Group Psychotherapy (IGA), Step A completed 2025.

Clinical experience

Where I’ve practised

Vikersund

Modum Bad

Psychologist in the Inpatient Division for Treatment-Resistant Depression, treating patients with complex, comorbid presentations, including depression alongside trauma, personality disorders and anxiety, with ISTDP as the primary treatment model.

Lillestrøm

Akershus University Hospital

Outpatient Clinic for Personality Disorders, conducting diagnostic evaluations for patients with severe personality disorders. Co-led Mentalization-Based Group Therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder, and led relational group therapy grounded in Group Analytic principles across a range of diagnoses.

Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam Institute of Psychology

Worked as a psychologist and group therapist, providing individual, couples and group therapy, and led an adult group.

Training placements

Bergen

University Psychological Clinic

The faculty’s own outpatient clinic at the University of Bergen, where candidates on the Cand.Psychol. programme carry a clinical caseload of assessment and therapy under the supervision of a specialist psychologist.

Bergen

Educational and Psychological Counselling Service

The municipal educational-psychological service, which supports kindergartens and schools in adapting provision for children who need it, and writes the expert assessments on which that provision is decided.

Research & technology

Better records shouldn’t cost the therapist their attention.

In May 2025 I co-founded psylab, a company building AI systems for therapists. The work runs on two strands: efficient clinical documentation, and expert-verified feedback on clinical technique.

The point isn’t only to save time. Administrative load is what pulls a clinician’s attention out of the room. Handing that load to a system is what lets the therapist stay present, and over time get better at the work itself.

I build from a Vietnamese and Norwegian vantage point, which shapes what I think accessible, ethical mental health infrastructure has to look like outside the countries that usually design it.

Training & registration

Credentials, in full

Professional degree

Cand.Psychol. (equivalent to Psy.D.), University of Bergen Norwegian clinical psychologist certification. A six-year programme grounded in the scientist-practitioner model.

Bachelor’s degree

B.A. Philosophy, University of Oslo Three-year programme.

Postgraduate training

Step A in Group Psychotherapy, Norwegian Institute for Group Analysis and Group Psychotherapy (IGA) Two-year advanced training, 2023 to 2025. 189 hours of theory, small- and large-group experience and supervision of own group work, plus 60 hours of peer supervision. Certified June 2025. Advanced Seminar in Basic Psychoanalytic Theory (BPT), IGA Eight modules over eighteen months, 32 hours, covering psychoanalytic theory from Freud to relational psychoanalysis. Certified June 2025.

About the IGA programme

Licence to practise

Certified Clinical Psychologist, licensed in Norway Authorised by the Norwegian Directorate of Health · Health Personnel Number (HPR) 10136421

European registration

Registered EuroPsy Psychologist Certificate in Clinical & Health Psychology · Register ID PSY163096, reference NO-071635-202510 · Awarding committee Norway · Valid until 30 October 2032

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Memberships

Norwegian Psychological Association
European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations, through EuroPsy registration

Independent listings

TherapyRoute, international directory; checks practitioner credentials before publishing a profile
It’s Complicated
Finn en psykolog, the Norwegian Psychological Association’s public directory
Ledig psykolog

Clinical teams

Skedsmo Psykologklinikk, Norway