Kristi Kalvik — Health Clinic Laihdutusklinikka Kristi joined the Health Clinic Weight Loss Clinic team in 2018 and advises patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery on their successful weight loss journey. She graduated from the Tallinn University Institute of Psychology with a master’s degree in psychology and is a certified clinical psychologist. She has completed an elementary course on family therapy and special training in cognitive and behavioural therapy. She is currently also studying the methods of schema therapy.

Kristi Kalvik

Kristi joined the Health Clinic Weight Loss Clinic team in 2018 and advises patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery on their successful weight loss journey. She graduated from the Tallinn University Institute of Psychology with a master’s degree in psychology and is a certified clinical psychologist. She has completed an elementary course on family therapy and special training in cognitive and behavioural therapy. She is currently also studying the methods of schema therapy.

Kristi has worked with post-operative patients in the Rehabilitation Department and is currently working mainly with patients with various psychiatric disorders at the Psychiatry Clinic of North Estonia Medical Centre. Her main tasks are assessing various psychiatric disorders and planning and conducting interventions and psychotherapy. Kristi is also a member of the Estonian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Work experience

2018 – …Health Clinic Weight Loss Clinic, Clinical Psychologist
2017 – …North Estonia Medical Centre Psychiatry Clinic, Department II
2015 – …Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Centre SENSUS
2014 – 2017East Tallinn Central Hospital, II Rehabilitation Department, Psychologist
  
  

Education

2015-2017School of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy continuation course
2012-2015Tallinn University, master’s degree (psychology, specialisation in psychological counselling)
2009 – 2012Tallinn University, psychology and human studies, bachelor’s degree
2001 – 2009Rakvere Gymnasium, mathematics, English
1997 – 2001Rakvere City Primary School

Further training

2019. Psychosocial crisis intervention and psychological first aid training
2018. Initial training in schema therapy
2018. Body and psyche
2018. Atle Dyregrov’s practical workshop – supervision on psychological debriefing for families in crisis
2018. Assessing personality disorders with the SNAP-2 test
2018. EKKA Spring Conference ‘Cognitive behavioural interventions for emotion regulation’
2018. PDE-ICD-10 structured interview user training
2018. Complex cases and co-morbidity in the treatment of mental and behavioural disorders
2018. Food and psyche
2018. Motivational interviewing
2017. Workshop: Schema therapy for children and adolescents
2016 EKKA spring conference on addictive disorders
2015. Introduction to cognitive behavioural therapy
2015. ESSPD workshops on personality disorders
2013. Basics of family psychotherapy

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