Svenja Taubner, Prof. Dr. phil., Dipl.-Psych. – is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and a certified psychoanalyst (German Society for Psychoanalysis, DPG), trainer and supervisor for Mentalization-Based-Treatment and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She specializes in the development and evaluation of intervention and prevention programs for families, individuals and mental health professionals. Currently, Professor Taubner is the Director of the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention at the University Hospital Heidelberg (since 2016). She is also a Co-Speaker of a DFG-Graduate School Application on enmity studies. Previously, she held the position of a Full Professor for Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy at Klagenfurt University, Austria (2012-2015), and Jun. Prof. for Developmental Psychopathology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (2010-2012). Her main research interests include mentalization, psychotherapy, personality disorders, aggression, and competences of mental health professionals.

Dr. Shelley McMain, Ph.D., C.Psych. – is the Head of the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic and a Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. She is the Director of the Psychotherapy, Humanities, and Psychosocial Interventions Division and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has received several awards for her psychotherapy research, including the recent Award for Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Personality Disorders Institute at the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell in New York (2020). She is the President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Her major areas of research interest include therapy of borderline personality disorder (BPD) such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and the mechanisms and mediators of psychotherapy outcomes. Dr. McMain is the acting President of the newly established World DBT Association.

Martin Debbané – is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva (Switzerland), and Professor of Psychopathology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK). His research focuses on the development of psychopathology in youths and young adults, integrating clinical, experimental and developmental psychology methods together with neuroscientific research. He is trainer, supervisor and practitioner of mentalization-based therapy, with a specialization in early psychosis, personality disorders and ADHD.

Dr. Gitta Jacob, – studied psychology in Würzburg and Freiburg, obtained her Ph.D. from the university of Freiburg in 2001, was licensed as a CBT therapist in 2003, and worked as a post-doc at the University Medical Center Freiburg and the University of Freiburg from 2002-2013. Her main field of interest at the university was Borderline Personality Disorder, with a therapeutic focus on Schema Therapy and emotion-focussed techniques in general. In 2013 she joined GAIA in Hamburg, the globally leading company in the field of digital therapeutics. At GAIA she is responsible for the development of new therapeutic software applications and their integration in patient care. Besides developing software applications for BPD, she is also involved in a broad range of other indications such as pain, diabetes or psychooncology. She authored and co-authored more than 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books. Her books have been translated into 15 languages.