Hanna Sahlin

I am Associate professor (docent), clinical psychologist, licensed psychotherapist and Specialist in clinical psychology.

Currently working as Program director of the Psychotherapy programme and supervisor program at Karolinska Institutet, Center for Psychiatry Research and Region Stockholm.  I am also serving as Chairman for the Region Stockholm/Gotland Regional workgroup of improved standards of care for self-harm & Representative for Region Stockholm/Gotland in the National workgroup for implementation of improved standards of care for self-harm 

I have a long background in psychiatry, mainly specialized in emotion regulation treatments for women with borderline personality disorder and deliberate self-harm. Current areas of research are: 1) borderline personality disorder, registerbased- and clinical studies; 2) emotion regulation, applied and basic science, in experimental studies; 3) emotion regulation treatment for transgender individuals with mental health issues; 4) emotion regulation interventions for depression; 5) emotion regulation group therapy for eating disorder patients with self-harm, and for adolescents with self-harm.

My main teaching areas are on emotion regulation, emotion regulation group therapy (ERGT) and personality disorders.