Anna-Konstantina Richter

Background

Anna-Konstantina Richter is a German-Greek psychologist, licensed psychological psychotherapist, accredited EMDR consultant and supervisor, CBT supervisor, and author.

Her clinical and academic interests include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), trauma-focused psychotherapy, anxiety disorders, and the training and supervision of psychotherapists.

She is the author and editor of several books on EMDR. Her publications include *EMDR bei sozialen Angststörungen* (Klett-Cotta, 2019), *EMDR – Ein Lehrbuch für Psychotherapie, Studium und Weiterbildung* (Springer, 2023), *Therapie-Tools EMDR* (Beltz, 2024), and the patient guide *Gesund werden mit EMDR* (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2024).

Richter has also published on the psychotherapeutic treatment of deaf patients with sign-language interpreters and developed clinical materials for the application of EMDR in the treatment of social anxiety disorder.

She works in private practice in Wetter (Hesse), Germany, and is active in psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and continuing professional education.

Career

Psychological psychotherapist in private practice in Wetter (Hesse), Germany. Accredited EMDR consultant and supervisor and accredited CBT supervisor. Clinical work focuses on EMDR, trauma-related disorders, anxiety disorders and cognitive behavioral therapy. She also works as a clinical supervisor, author and lecturer in continuing professional education for psychotherapists.

Achievements

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  Author of the EMDR Worksheet for Social Anxiety Disorder.
  
  Guest Editor of the special issue on EMDR of the peer-reviewed journal *Trauma & Gewalt* (Trauma & Violence).
  
  Author and editor of several professional books on EMDR, including publications with Klett-Cotta, Springer, Beltz and Psychosozial-Verlag.
  
  Accredited EMDR consultant/supervisor and accredited supervisor in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
  
  Professional publications and teaching activities in the fields of EMDR, trauma-focused psychotherapy, anxiety disorders and psychotherapy training.

Works

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  • Vernachlässigte Folgen sozialer Traumatisierung Soziale Angststörung – »Stiefkind« in der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung

    (Social Anxiety Disorder: A Blind Spot in Psychotherapeuti...)

    2018
  • Ein steiniger Weg. Ausbeutung in der Psychotherapie-Ausbildung (PDF Download Available)

    (Full-text (PDF) | Nach dem Psychologiestudium muß man noc...)

    2005
  • Das Trauma des plötzlichen ­Verlustes oder der Erkrankung Nahestehender

    (Studien beschreiben die hohe Effektstärke von trauma­foku...)

    2019
  • EMDR in der Behandlung eines gehörlosen PTBS-Patienten. Vorzüge einer nicht ausschließlich verbalen psychotherapeutischen Intervention – ein Fallbericht. (English: Case Report: EMDR in the Treatment of a Deaf PTSD Patient – Advantages of a not entirely verbal psychotherapeutic intervention)

    (Abstract: The aim of Germany’s Federal Law on Equal Trea...)

    2019
  • Kaufmann/-frau im Gesundheitswesen Der neue Beruf zur Stärkung der Schnittstellen zwischen Heilbehandlung, Abrechnung, Marketing und Qualitätssicherung 2003

• book

  • EMDR. Ein Lehrbuch für Psychotherapie-Studium und Weiterbildung

    (Edited textbook providing an introduction to the foundati...)

    2023
  • Therapie-Tools EMDR

    (Practice-oriented collection of clinical tools, worksheet...)

    2024
  • EMDR bei Sozialen Angststörungen

    (Die Sozialen Angststörungen stellen die dritthäufigste ps...)

  • Anna-Konstantina Richter: Gesund werden mit EMDR

    (Patient guide explaining Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (P...)

    2024

Membership

Member of the Hessian Chamber of Psychotherapists (Psychotherapeutenkammer Hessen), EMDRIA Germany, EMDR Hellas, Deutsche PsychotherapeutenVereinigung (DPtV), and Rationelle Arztpraxis e.V.

Connections

husband:

Khaled Mohi Ragab Mohamed

References

• Anna-Konstantina Richter – Wikipedia (German) Biographical article about German-Greek psychological psychotherapist, EMDR consultant and supervisor, and author Anna-Konstantina Richter.
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