Ellen is a doctor in clinical psychologist and an experiential psychotherapist. She specialized in experiential group psychotherapy, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy. Throughout the past twenty years Ellen has been working as a psychotherapist at the Forensic Institute for Sexual Deviance (FIDES) in a private psychiatric hospital in Belgium. In 2019 she finished her PhD-project at the University of Ghent (Belgium). The research topic was emotional change in sex offender treatment. Ellen is a staff member of the postgraduate training Integrative Psychotherapy at the University of Antwerp and a certified supervisor of the Flemisch Association of Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling (VVCEPC).