The science behind INTENSIVE8®

Prof. A. van Minnen is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and professor by special appointment in the area of Anxiety Regulation and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She has specialised in treating PTSD and dissociation for many years and has combined her clinical work with research. She is a great advocate of Exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and PTSD.

Prof. A. de Jongh is a Professor by special appointment in the area of Anxiety and Behaviour Disorders at the University of Amsterdam as well as (since 2011) Honorary Professor in psychology at the School of Health Sciences of Salford University in Manchester, and at the Institute of Health and Society of the University of Worcester, both in the United Kingdom. He specialises in the treatment of trauma-related anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 1993 he introduced the EMDR treatment method in the Netherlands and is an EMDR-Europe accredited trainer in EMDR. EMDR is currently one of the treatments of first choice for psychological trauma and is applied by the majority of psychologists carrying out treatments based on evidence-based guidelines in the Netherlands.