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About me

I consider my professional activity to be a great privilege and the joy of work is an important part of it for me. In my work, authentic, empathic contact at eye level is important to me. The trust that my clients place in me is a great honor for me.

 

In the sessions I will accompany you through difficult phases in life, with mental illnesses, in crises or on the way to personal development. My goal is to work with you to find out which patterns and experiences have contributed to the current situation in order to find new ways to deal with it.

 

I am happy to provide my knowledge and skills that I have gained in the course of my training and my professional activity.

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Professional background

  • Assistant psychologist and later psychologist and doctoral candidate at the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) in various departments

  • Psychotherapist in training in the teaching practice of Dipl. -Psych. Erika Tittmann, Lörrach

  • Work as delegated psychologist at Dr. med. Sievers, in the Praxis Birkenstrasse, Basel

 

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Initial and continuing education

  • Bachelor in Strasbourg and Vienna (B.Sc.)

  • Master in Maastricht, Netherlands (M.Sc. Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, Track Neuropsychology)

  • Doctorate in Basel (Dr. phil. Doctor philosophiae titel of the thesis "A multi-perspective approach to early detection of psychosis")

  • Training as a psychotherapist at the Freiburg Training Institute for Behavioral Therapy (Germany; with recognition as a federally recognized psychotherapist FSP in Switzerland)

  • Participation in courses in schema therapy (ongoing)

  • Workshop in narrative exposure therapy (2020)

 

publications

 

Menghini-Müller, S., Studerus, E., Ittig, S.,Heitz, U., Egloff, L, Andreou, C, ... & Nelson, B (2019). Gender differences of patients at risk for psychosis regarding symptomatology, drug use, comorbidity and functioning–Results from the EU-GEI study. European Psychiatry, 59, 52-59.

 

L Egloff, C Lenz, E Studerus,Heitz, U., Harrisberger, F., Smieskova, R., ... & Riecher‐Rössler, A. (2019). No associations between medial temporal lobe volumes and verbal learning/memory in emerging psychosis. European Journal of Neuroscience.

 

K Beck, C Andreou, E Studerus,Heitz, U., Ittig, S., Leanza, L., & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2019). Clinical and functional long-term outcome of patients at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis without transition to psychosis: A systematic review. Schizophrenia research.

 

Heitz, U., Papmeyer, M., Studerus, E., Egloff, L., Ittig, S., Andreou, C., ... & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2018). Plasma and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels and their association with neurocognition in at-risk mental state, first episode psychosis and chronic schizophrenia patients. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 1-10.

 

L Leanza, L Egloff, E Studerus, C Andreou,Heitz, U., Ittig, S., ... & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2018). The relationship between negative symptoms and cognitive functioning in patients at clinical high risk for psychosis. Psychiatry research, 268, 21-27.

 

Egloff, L., Studerus, E., Zimmermann, R.,Heitz, U., Menghini-Müller, S., Ittig, S., ... & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2018). Evaluating verbal learning and memory in patients with an at-risk mental state or first episode psychosis using structural equation modelling. Plos one, 13(5), e0196936.

 

E Studerus, S Corbisiero, N Mazzariello, S Ittig, L Leanza, L Egloff, K Beck,Heitz U., ... & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2018). Can neuropsychological testing facilitate differential diagnosis between at-risk mental state (ARMS) for psychosis and adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?. European Psychiatry, 52, 38-44.

 

Uttinger, M., Studerus, E., Ittig, S.,Heitz, U., Schultze‐Lutter, F., & Riecher‐Rössler, A. (2018). The Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire for self‐assessment of basic symptoms in the early detection of psychosis—Factor structure, reliability, and predictive validity. International journal of methods in psychiatric research, 27(2), e1600.

 

Papmeyer, M., Aston, J., Everts‐Graber, J.,Heitz, U., Studerus, E., Borgwardt, SJ, ... & Riecher‐Rössler, A. (2018). Outcome of individuals “not at risk of psychosis” and prognostic accuracy of the Basel Screening Instrument for Psychosis (BSIP). Early intervention in psychiatry, 12(5), 907-914.

 

Heitz, U., Studerus, E., Menghini‐Müller, S., Papmeyer, M., Egloff, L., Ittig, S., ... & Riecher‐Rössler, A. (2017). Gender differences in first self-perceived signs and symptoms in patients with an at-risk mental state and first-episode psychosis. Early intervention in psychiatry, 13(3), 582-588.

 

Ittig, S., Studerus, E.,Heitz, U., Menghini-Müller, S., Beck, K., Egloff, L., ... & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2017). Sex differences in prolactin levels in emerging psychosis: indication for enhanced stress reactivity in women. Schizophrenia research, 189, 111-116.

 

C. Andreou, CE Wittekind, M. Fieker,Heitz, U., Veckenstedt, R., Bohn, F., & Moritz, S. (2017). Individualized metacognitive therapy for delusions: a randomized controlled rater-blind study. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 56, 144-151.

 

Ramyead A, Studerus E, Kometer M,Heitz, U., Gschwandtner, U., Fuhr, P., & Riecher-Rossler, A. (2016). Neural Oscillations in Antipsychotic-Naive Patients with a First Psychotic Episode. World J Biol Psychiatry, 1-27. doi: 10.3109/15622975.2016.1156742

 

Laprevote, V.,Heitz, U., Di, PP, Studerus, E., Ligier, F., Schwitzer, T., ... & Riecher-Rössler, A. (2016). Why and how to treat psychosis earlier?. Presse medicale (Paris, France: 1983), 45(11), 992-1000.

 

Spitz A, Studerus E, Koranyi S, Rapp C, Ramyead A, Ittig S,Heitz, U., Uttinger, M., Riecher-Rössler, A. (2015). Correlations between self-rating and observer-rating of psychopathology in at-risk mental state and first-episode psychosis patients: influence of disease stage and gender. Early Interv Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/eip.12270

 

Papmeyer M.,Heitz U, & Riecher-Rössler A. (2014). When a person becomes "somehow different". Synapse, 6, 4-6.

 

Van Heugten, CM, Walton, L., &Hentschel, U. (2014). Can we forget the Mini-Mental State Examination? A systematic review of the validity of cognitive screening instruments within one month after stroke. Clinic rehab. doi: 10.1177/0269215514553012

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