Olga V. Lehmann

Olga V. Lehmann has a background in clinical, community, and cultural psychology, and works as transdisciplinarily as possible in support of mental health and well-being. She holds a dual degree in psychology from Colombia and Italy and is fully authorised to practice as a clinical psychologist in Norway.

She earned her doctoral degree in Psychology at NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where she wrote her dissertation on silence and emotions in everyday life. She later completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Mental Health at NTNU, focusing on therapeutic writing and existential meaning among older adults.

Her main research areas include qualitative methodologies and epistemology in qualitative research; research and development of low-threshold interventions to promote mental health and well-being; grief; silence; feelings and emotions; therapeutic writing; existential meaning; compassion; meaning-making; the psychological humanities; aesthetics; and the history of psychology.

Her clinical training is pluralistic and integrative, with a particular emphasis on existential psychology. Her clinical qualifications include:

• Certified instructor in Mindful Eating – Conscious Living (MEC-CL) by the University of California San Diego
• Completion of Levels 1 and 2 of the core skills training in couple therapy at The Gottman Institute
• Training in Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy and Existential Analysis through ALAEF (Associazione di Logoterapia e Analisi Esistenziale Frankliana) in collaboration with the Catholic University of Milan
• Completion of the therapists’ training program in Emotion-focused Skill Training for Parents (EFST) at the Norwegian Institute of Emotion-focused Therapy
• Completion of two out of three modules in the psychotherapy training program in Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) at NIEFT – The Norwegian Institute of Emotion-focused Therapy, a three-year program approved by the Norwegian Psychological Association.