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Dr Selina Wolke

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Selina Wolke is a Clinical Psychologist and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered practitioner with over ten years of clinical and research experience. She specialises in working with adults, children, young people and their families with a wide range of difficulties and challenges. She has experience of working within the NHS in outpatient and inpatient hospital settings, as well as working within the private sector. She has experience of using evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Narrative and Systemic approaches.

Education and Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science (BSc) with First Class Honors in Psychology, University of York (2010)

  • 1+3 Scholarship of Excellence (NIHR-BRC), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Nueroscience, King’s College London (2013)

  • Master of Science (MSc) in Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Nueroscience, King’s College London (2014)

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London (2017)

  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych), University of Royal Holloway, London (2022)

Select Publications

  • Stringaris, Argyris, Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil, Eric Artiges, Hervé Lemaitre, Fanny Gollier-Briant, Selina Wolke, Hélène Vulser et al. (2015)  "The brain’s response to reward anticipation and depression in adolescence: dimensionality, specificity, and longitudinal predictions in a community-based sample." American Journal of Psychiatry 172, no. 12: 1215-1223.

  • Keren, H., O’Callaghan, G., Vidal-Ribas, P., Buzzell, G.A., Brotman, M.A., Leibenluft, E., Pan, P.M., Meffert, L., Kaiser, A., Wolke, S. and Pine, D.S., (2018). Reward processing in depression: a conceptual and meta-analytic review across fMRI and EEG studies. American Journal of Psychiatry, 175(11), pp.1111-1120.

  • O'Callaghan, G., Wolke, S., Kaiser, A., Mehta, M., Young, A., Winkler, A., Pine, D.S. and Stringaris, A., (2018). F176. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled-Crossover Design Investigating the Impact of a Pharmacological Challenge on Neural Mechanisms of Response Inhibition in Depression. Biological Psychiatry, 83(9), pp.S306-S307.

  • Wolke, S.A., Mehta, M.A., O'Daly, O., Zelaya, F., Zahreddine, N., Keren, H., O'Callaghan, G., Young, A.H., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S. and Stringaris, A., (2019). Modulation of anterior cingulate cortex reward and penalty signalling in medication-naive young-adult subjects with depressive symptoms following acute dose lurasidone. Psychological Medicine, 49(8), pp.1365-1377.