Profile Niclas Kilian-Hütten, PhD
During my psychology studies in Maastricht, the Netherlands, I developed a great enthusiasm for brain research and therefore decided to pursue my PhD in this area. During my scientific work I noticed an increasing interest in the psychotherapeutic occupation. I wanted to deal intensively with profound human questions and issues and experience real meaningfulness in my work. Therefore, I started a systemic therapy training in parallel, which I continued during a 2-year research activity in New York.
Back in Germany, I followed training to obtain my license to practice cognitive behaviorial therapy and worked in a psychosomatic clinic, in outpatient psychotherapeutic care and as a lecturer. I also completed my training as an EMDR therapist and was one of the first state-approved psychotherapists in Germany to be recognized for the additional licensed specialty of "systemic therapy".
Until October 2021, I applied my various backgrounds to help set up and manage a special clinic for systemic psychotraumatology and EMDR as head psychologist for a period of 5.5 years. Now it is with great pleasure that I accompany people from a wide variety of contexts and with a wide variety of questions in my practice and work as a lecturer / teaching therapist / supervisor in systemic training programs at our family-run Niederrheinisches Institut - Abteilung Rheinland as well as for the licensing training for psychotherapists in systemic therapy at the APP Cologne, the Rhein-Eifel-Institut Andernach, the IFS Essen and the IF Weinheim. In this context, my practice also functions as a teaching practice for therapists in training. I am married and my wife and I have a little son.
CV
Education
State-approved psychological psychotherapist (systemic therapy / cognitive behavioral therapy)
Psychologist (BSc / MSc, Maastricht University, NL / University of California, Los Angeles)
Neuroscientist (PhD / Dr. phil., Maastricht University, NL; Postdoc, Columbia University, New York)
Systemic Therapist, Couples & Family Therapist (DGSF / Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York)
EMDR Therapist (EMDRIA / EMDR Europe)
Systemic teaching therapist
Activities
Current:
Self-employed as a licensed psychological psychotherapist in my own private practice
Lecturer / teaching therapist / supervisor at the Niederrheinisches Institut - Abteilung Rheinland, at APP Köln and at Rhein-Eifel-Institut Andernach
Freelance lecturer (topics including "Neuroscience and Psychotherapy", "Effects of Pre- and Postnatal Trauma on Neural and Psychological Development", “EMDR from a systemic perspective“, “Poverty, chronic stress and the brain: Findings from systemic trauma therapy“)
Before:
Head of psychotherapy in a specialized clinic for systemic psychotraumatology and EMDR (cooperative clinic of the EMDR-Institut Deutschland
Employed psychotherapist at a specialized psychosomatic clinic
Outpatient psychotherapeutic activity in several practices
Collaboration at the „Foster Care Project“ at Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York
Postdoctoral research fellow. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York
Research associate (honorary). Department of Neurology, New York University
Research associate. Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
Memberships / scholarships
Entry in the medical register of the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Nordrhein
Chamber of Psychotherapists NRW
German Society for Systemic Therapy, Counseling and Family Therapy e.V. ( DGSF )
NWO Rubicon Scholarship to fund a 2 year postdoctoral research position, Columbia University, NY
NWO TopTalent scholarship to finance a 4-year PhD position, Maastricht University, NL