Gabiele Wilz, PhD, is Head of the Department of Counseling and Clinical Intervention and Director of the Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic and CBT qualification at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2009. She studied psychology in Marburg, received her PhD in 1998 at University of Leipzig, and worked from 1998 - 2003 as Assistant assistant Professor professor at the University of Leipzig in the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology. From 2003 to 2008 she was Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Technical University of Berlin. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor with licensure in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.