Instructors

Claudiu C. Papasteri

     Claudiu C. Papasteri, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and a lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest. Trained in experiential, emotion focused and ericksonian psychotherapy, Claudiu’s past research touched on intervention targeting, intervention development and psychotherapy process-research. More recently, he has became interested in the physiological underpinnings of change processes arising both through pathogenesis, but also as a result of successful psychological intervention. His main areas of research pertain to clinical psychology, psychotherapy and electropsychophysiology, blending his passionate work to data science and psychometrics.

Ana Toma

     Ana Toma is a psychologist, doctoral student, and doctoral teaching assistant at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Bucharest. Ana is specialized in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and clinical psychology and is now getting a second specialization in Emotion Focused Psychotherapy. As a researcher, Ana focuses on couple psychology as part of her doctoral studies, being also interested in the neuroscience of social cognition. Besides neuroscience, her teaching activity includes areas such as psychotherapy and statistics in the social sciences.