Keynotes

The Keynote talks will be given on Thursday 4th, Friday 5th & Saturday 6th September 2025

Arnoud Arntz, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Imagery Rescripting: an update of clinical applications and research findings

Dixon Chibanda, Friendship Bench Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
The Friendship Bench: Lessons from a thousand grandmothers

Michelle Craske, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Targeting threat and reward processes in the treatment of anxiety and depression

Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford, UK
Making the most of digital (and parents) to increase access to CBT for child anxiety problems

Colin Espie, University of Oxford, UK
Psychological therapy and pharmacotherapy on the same playing field

Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Digital solutions for a global problem: improving access to mental health services through technology

Gillian Haddock, University of Manchester, UK
Everyone needs to talk about suicide and psychosis: how can we improve our work when engaging with these complex issues?

Nusrat Husain, University of Manchester, UK
Breaking Barriers: Cultural adaptation of psychological therapies for Ethnic Minority communities

Andrew Jahoda, University of Glasgow, UK
The art of the possible: adapting psychological therapies for people with more severe and profound intellectual disabilities

Lars Klintwall, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Disentangling complexity: using personalized symptom networks in clinical practice

Hans Knoop, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Netherlands
TBC

Ken Laidlaw, University of Exeter, UK
TBC

David Mataix-Cols, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Beyond symptom reduction: Time to expand CBT research to broader life outcomes?

Rory O’Connor, University of Glasgow, UK
Understanding suicide risk

Agnieszka Popiel, SWPS University, Poland
Challenges for Evidence-Based Practice in the Treatment and Prevention of PTSD during Ongoing Humanitarian Crises

Filip Raes, University of Leuven, Belgium
A Transdiagnostic Case Conceptualization Model with Behavior Therapy as its Beating Heart

Jessica Schleider, Northwestern University, USA
Single-Session Interventions as a Youth Mental Health Moonshot

Roz Shafran, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK
Breaking Boundaries, Creating Connections: The Role of Transdiagnostic Treatments

Luisa Weiner, University of Strasbourg, France
TBC

Ulrike Willutzki, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Psychotherapy training – Impressions from an international longitudinal study