Research Focus & Expertise

My research interest focuses on the influence of childhood traumatization on emotional dysregulation in trauma-associated disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. My work focuses on the investigation of neurobiological and psychological transdiagnostic mechanisms in this context, with a particular focus on sleep disorders (e.g. insomnia, nightmares, fear of sleep) as a potential mechanism.

Publications

Bertsch, K., Göhre, I., Cottin, M., Zettl, M., Wienrich, C., & Back, S. N. (2024). Traumatic childhood experiences and personality functioning: effect of body connection in a cross-sectional German and Chilean sample. Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation, 11(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-024-00266-z

Werner, G.G., Göhre, I., Takano, K., Ehring, T., Wittekind, C.E., & Stefanovic, M. (2024). Temporal associations between trauma-related sleep disturbances and posttraumatic stress disorder: An experience sampling study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, and Practice, 16, 846-854. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001386

Werner, G. G., Göhre, I., Takano, K., Ehring, T., Wittekind, C. E., & Stefanovic, M. (2022). Temporal associations between trauma-related sleep disturbances and PTSD symptoms: An experience sampling study. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001386

Demnitz-King, H., Göhre, I., & Marchant, N. L. (2021). The neuroanatomical correlates of repetitive negative thinking: A systematic review. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging, 316, 111353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111353

Academic Background

since 03/2022
Research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, LMU Munich
since 10/2021
In training as a licensed psychotherapist, specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy, at the Munich University Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy Training (MUNIP)
10/2022 – 10/2023
Psychotherapist at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at LMU Munich
02/2022 – 11/2022
Psychotherapist at the Outpatient Center for Psychological Treatment of the LMU Munich (trauma outpatient clinic)
04/2021 – 01/2022
Research assistant at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen & Schön Klinik Bad Aibling
06/2020 - 08/2021
Student assistant at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, LMU Munich
10/2019 – 04/2021
M.Sc. in “Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience” at the LMU Munich
09/2018 – 09/2019
Research associate at the Division of Psychiatry at University College London (UCL) with research training at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Caen, France)
09/2018 – 09/2019
M.Sc. in “Clinical Mental Health Sciences” at UCL, England
07/2015 – 07/2018
B.Sc. in “Psychology” at Maastricht University, Netherlands