Dr Katie Aafjes - van Doorn is Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU Shanghai, where she is the area head of Social Sciences and leads the AI for Social Good cluster at the AI center. She completed a MSc in Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and MSc in Psychological Research, and Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She worked in San Francisco, California, and gained licensure as Clinical Psychologist in New York. She previously worked as Associate Professor at Ferkauf, the Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, in New York. She is also the Associate Editor for the APA journal Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, and the Clinical-lead of the startup company Deliberate.ai that develops AI-based multi-modal assessments for mental health. She has published over 70 peer reviewed papers, co-authored several books and chapters and is a regular speaker at (inter)national conferences. Her research focuses on psychotherapy research and training and the use of AI in developing automated feedback for clinicians. She is particularly interested in the therapeutic relationship in teletherapy and digital mental health interventions, and the use of AI-based tools, routine measurements, and video recordings in treatment.
Select Publications
Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (2024). Ai-based Measurement in Psychotherapy: Patients and Clinicians’ Perspectives. Counseling and Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12800
Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Spina, D., Horne. S.J., & Békés, V. (2024).The association between quality of therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in teletherapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Clinical Psychology Review, 110, 102430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102430.
Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Spina, D., Gorman, B., Stukenberg, K, & Waldron, W. (2024). Implicit relational aspects of the therapeutic relationship in psychoanalytic treatments: An examination of linguistic style entrainment over time. Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2024.2341780
Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Békés, V., Luo, X., & Hopwood, C. (2023). Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy. Psychotherapy Research. Advance online publication https://doi.10.1080/10503307.2023.2193299
Aafjes-van Doorn, K. & de Jong, K. (2022). How to make the most of routine outcome monitoring (ROM): A multitude of clinical decisions and nuances to consider. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, ROM Issue. 78(10), 2054-2065. https://doi-org.ezproxy.yu.edu/10.1002/jclp.23438
Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (2022). The complexity of teletherapy: Not better or worse, but different. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(2), 182–184. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000073
Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Kamsteeg, C., Bate, J., & Aafjes., M. (2021). A scoping review of machine learning in psychotherapy research. Psychotherapy Research, 31(1), 92-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2020.1808729 .
Aafjes-van Doorn, K. Porcerelli, J., & Müller-Frommeyer, L. C., (2020). Language style matching in psychotherapy: An implicit aspect of alliance. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 67(4), 509–522. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000433
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Education
- DClinPsy, Clinical Psychology
University of Oxford, United Kingdom - MSc, Psychological Research
University of Oxford, United Kingdom - MSc, Clinical PsychologyVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Research Interests
- Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice
- Psychotherapy and psychotherapy training
- Therapeutic relationship in in-person therapy and teletherapy.
- Routine outcome monitoring and deliberate practice
- Multi-modal (audio, video, language) methods to examine different (un) conscious aspects of the therapeutic relationship