Rate My Professor Sabrina Sweerts

Sabrina Julien-Sweerts is a Maître de conférences in clinical psychology at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, affiliated with the Département de Psychologie and the C2S laboratory (EA 6291, Cognition, Santé, Société). Her academic appointment aligns with the 16th section of the CNU on cognitive psychopathology. She obtained her Doctorate in Psychology from Université Paris Nanterre in September 2019, under the supervision of Professor Lucia Romo. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Vers un modèle psychologique explicatif du surpoids et de l’obésité et contribution à l’évaluation d’une prise en charge triaxiale comprenant la restriction cognitive, l’alimentation émotionnelle et l’acceptation," examined psychological determinants of overweight and obesity, evaluating a triaxial intervention targeting cognitive restraint, emotional eating, and acceptance. As a licensed clinical psychologist, she practices psychotherapy using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based approaches, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

Her research specializations center on psychological mechanisms underlying overweight and obesity, including cognitive restraint, emotional eating, intuitive eating, and acceptance; therapeutic interventions for eating disorders such as binge eating disorder and orthorexia nervosa; cognitive behavioral programs to prevent road crash recidivism among adolescents and young adults; early screening for postnatal depression through infant clinical signs; post-traumatic stress disorder in university students; and validation of assessment scales in French populations. She has also studied mental health perceptions during COVID-19 lockdowns and developed online tools integrating CBT, ACT, mindful eating, and therapeutic education for weight management. Key publications include "Urge to Eat and Body Mass Index: Exploring the Association with Diffuse and Defined Emotions" (2025), "Eating behavior changes with an online cognitive behavioral therapy program for weight loss in individuals with overweight or obesity: A pilot study" (2025), "CBT program to reduce recidivism risk for road crashes among adolescents and young adults: Results of a randomized controlled study and prospects" (2023, Heliyon), "Toward early screening for early management of postnatal depression? Relationships between clinical signs present in the infant and underlying maternal postnatal depression" (2022), and "A Systematic Review: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Parents of Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (2022). Her scholarship has garnered 245 citations on Google Scholar. Within the university, she coordinates the master's track in Psychopathologies and Behavioral, Cognitive, and Emotional Psychotherapies, serves as international exchange coordinator for the Psychology department, and participates in the Research Ethics Committee.