Research Focus & Expertise

  • Psychopathology, relationship quality, and interactions with living children following pregnancy/child loss
  • Psychosocial care for parents following abnormal prenatal screening results or pregnancy/child loss
  • Psychopathology, social interaction, (self-)stigma, and help-seeking behavior following adverse childhood experiences

Academic Background

04/2025–present
PhD candidate at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, LMU Munich
07/2022–present
Licensed Psychotherapist at the group practice of Prof. Dr. Fegg and colleagues
12/2022
Additional license a child and adolescent psychotherapist
05/2020–05/2022
Psychotherapist in training at the MUNIP outpatient training clinic
10/2018–04/2022
Postgraduate training in psychological psychotherapy with a specialization in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) at the Münchner Universitäres Institut für Psychologische Psychotherapieausbildung (MUNIP); licensure as a psychotherapist; additional license as a group psychotherapist
09/2019–07/2020
Psychotherapist in training at Klinikum Fünfseenland Gauting
03/2019–06/2020
Clinical Psychologist at ANAD e.V. in Munich
04/2019–03/2020
Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Therapist at Arbeitskreis Legasthenie Bayern e.V.
10/2018–05/2019
Psychotherapist in training at Marianne-Strauss-Klinik in Kempfenhausen
10/2017–10/2018
M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Tübingen
06/2017–09/2018
Working Student at Rösch Fashion GmbH & Co. KG
10/2013–09/2017
B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Tübingen
12/2016–07/2017
Italian Language Instructor at Lernstudio Barbarossa
05/2016–07/2017
Working Student at IC Consult in Stuttgart
10/2016–02/2017
Practical semester in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosomatics at St. Anna-Virngrund-Klinik in Ellwangen
09/2016
Internship at the Social Pediatric Center, University Hospital Tübingen
08/2016–09/2016
Intern and Psychoeducation Instructor at the bwlv Specialized Addiction Treatment Clinic in Tübingen
02/2016–04/2016
Intern in the Psychological Services Department at Heimsheim Correctional Facility
10/2012–03/2015
Studies in International Business Administration, University of Tübingen
08/2014–10/2014
Intern in International Human Resources Development at TRW Automotive GmbH

Publications

  • Balle, S.R.*, Nothelfer, C.*, Mergl, R., Quaatz, S.M., Hoffmann, S., Hoffmann, H., Allgaier, A.-K.*, & Eichhorn, K.* (2024). Depression after pregnancy loss: the role of the presence of living children, the type of loss, multiple losses, the relationship quality, and coping strategies. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2386827.
  • Fares-Otero, N.*, Sharp, T.*, Balle, S.R., Quaatz, S.M., Vieta, E., Ahs, F., Allgaier, A.-K., Arévalo, A., Bachem, R., Belete, H., Belete Mossie, T., Berzengi, A., Capraz, N., Ceylan, D., Dukes, D., Essadek, A., Iqbal, N., Jobson, L., Levy-Gigi, E., Lüönd, A., ..., & Halligan, S.L. (2024). Social support and (complex) posttraumatic stress symptom severity: does gender matter? European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
  • Haim-Nachum*, S., Sopp, R.*, Lüönd, M.R., Afzal, N., Ahs, F., Allgaier, A.-K., Arévalo, A., Asongwe, C., Bachem, R., Balle, S.R., Belete, H., Belete Mossie, T., Berzengi, A., Capraz, N., Ceylan, D., Dukes, D., Essadek, A., Fares-Otero, N., Halligan, S.L., Hemi, A., ..., & Pfaltz, M.C. (2024). Childhood maltreatment is linked to larger preferred interpersonal distances towards friends and strangers across the globe. Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), 339.
  • Porat-Butman, S., Ayas, G., Balle, S. R., Carranza-Neira, J., Fares-Otero, N. E., Hemi, A., ... & Levy-Gigi, E. (2025). From maltreatment to mistrust: Impaired belief updating as a mechanism linking childhood maltreatment to interpersonal and clinical outcomes. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104902.

Other Roles

Member of the Child Trauma Network of the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GCTS) https://www.global-psychotrauma.net/child-maltreatment

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