Her teaching interests include short-term psychodynamic therapy, relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy, clinical interviewing, psychotherapy research and writing in psychology. Her research focuses on the evidence-base of psychodynamic psychotherapy; the effect of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies (Experiential Dynamic Therapy) as well as (non) verbal psychodynamic processes, including the coding and analyses of affect experiencing, defenses, reflective functioning, learning styles and other potential moderators and mediators of change.