Helle Spindler, PhD
Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Dr. Spindler is an associate professor of Clinical Psychology at Aarhus University, where she has been carrying out research in psychotraumatologoy and psychological aspects of cardiac disease and rehabilitation for 10 years, with 30+ published papers within these fields. Dr. Spindlers research focus in psychotraumatology has especially been on dissociative responses to trauma, a line of work she has widened to include psychological reactions to cardiac disease, psychological distress in the aftermath of cardiac disease, the well-being of partners of cardiac patients and how couples adapt to cardiac disease, as well as motivational factors associated with participation in cardiac rehabilitation., She has been working on several projects involving telerehabilitation since 2012, and is also part of the the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) between Danish and American research Institutions such as UC Berkeley the Cleveland Clinic.
