Helinä Häkkänen

I’m a psychologist with a PhD, a special psychologist’s qualification in legal psychology and work and organizational psychology, licensed psychotherapist and certified EMDR Consultant. Currently I'm a founding partner and the managing director of the Mielenjuuri Ltd. I hold the title docent (adjunct professor of legal and criminal psychology) at the University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. My current focus is on EMDR-therapy (eye movement desensitation and processing) and coaching. I have done EMDR with thousands of clients and hold two trademarks for methods based on EMDR. These relate to enhancing witness perfomance in court and wellbeing in individuals and groups. As a legal psychologist I have given expert testimony in criminal and civil cases in the Finnish court (war crime, homicides, rapes) and provided an expert statement on the anti-stalking law and child custody law for the Finnish parliament. I have consulted and trained e.g. judges at all court levels, lawyers in private law firms, prosecutors and the Swedish, Belgium, South Africa and Finnish police. I've authored or co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and have authored, co-authored or edited four books. My publications are listed in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helinae_Haekkaenen-Nyholm In 2002-2011 I worked as a senior researcher at at the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (partly with Acedemy of Finland funding). In 2011-2021 I was a managing director and co-partner in a law firm. I have had my own clinical practice since 2010.