My name is Pia Callesen, and I am the clinic director at CEKTOS, with branches in Thisted, Aarhus, Næstved, and Copenhagen.
I hold a degree in psychology from the University of Wales, Bangor (2000), and the University of Copenhagen (2003), with further training in cognitive and metacognitive therapy.
I am an MCTI (TM)-registered therapist, which means I completed and passed the two-year metacognitive certification program in 2012 (Level 1), as well as the one-year Advanced Level training in 2014 and 2017 (Level 2). This training was conducted by the method's founder, Professor Adrian Wells of Manchester University (UK), and Professor Hans Nordahl of Trondheim University (NO).
I earned a doctorate from Manchester University under the supervision of the method’s founder, Professor Adrian Wells. In the fall of 2016, I completed my PhD dissertation, which involved research on the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy for depression compared to traditional cognitive behavioral therapy. In the study, 74% of participants recovered from depression using metacognitive therapy, with over 37% classified as severely or extremely depressed. These unique results have been published in Scientific Reports by Nature and were also covered in Jyllands-Posten.