Professor Willem Kuyken

Willem Kuyken is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Co-Founder of the Mood Disorders Centre at the University of Exeter in England. His research and clinical work specialise in CBT approaches to recurrent depression with a specialist interest in case conceptualization and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.

BSc (UCL)

PhD (Lond)

DClin Psychol (South Thames)

Professor Kuyken is a research clinical psychologist, with a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry (1992) and DClinPsy from the Salomon's Clinical Psychology Training Programme (1997). After completing his PhD and clinical training he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania for two years with Aaron T. Beck (1997-1999). Since 1999 he has worked in Exeter, England where he co-founded and co-directs the Mood Disorders Centre, a research, clinical and training center. He joined the University of Exeter in 1999 and has had a number of roles there including heading up the doctoral clinical psychology training programme (2001-2004) and leading the clinical research group (2001 – date).

In 2006 he was awarded the May Davidson award “for clinical psychologists who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of their work as a qualified clinical psychologist”.