Dr. Milana Smolkina

  • Psychologist M.Sc

  • Licensed psychological psychotherapist by the government of Hamburg 

  • Member of the Bavarian Chamber of Psychotherapists (PTK Bayern)

ACademic and professional background

  • 2023-2024 Individual and group therapy - Inpatient psychotherapy according to the DBT approach (Borderline) at the kbo-Isar-Amper Klinik in Haar, Munich
  • 2021-2024 Individual therapy - Outpatient psychotherapy practice PTA Hamburg
  • 2020 - 2022 Teaching activity: Research assistant at the University of Hamburg, BSc Psychology
  • 2019-2020 Mindfulness groups - Medical care center Colonnaden, Hamburg
  • 2018 - 2019 Teaching: Teaching Fellowship King's College London, BSc Psychology
  • 2014-2019 PhD in Addiction Sciences - King's College London 2019
  • 2013-2014 MSc Genes, Environment and Development - King's College London
  • 2010-2013 BSc Psychology - University of York

PubliCation

  • Smolkina, Milana & Morley, Katherine & Rijsdijk, Frühling & Agrawal, A. & Bergin, J. & Nelson, Elliot & Statham, Dixie & Martin, N. & Lynskey, Michael. (2017). Cannabis and Depression: A Twin Model Approach to Co-morbidity. Behavior Genetics. 47. 10.1007/s10519-017-9848-0. 

  • Zentner, Marcel & Smolkina, Milana & Venables, Peter. (2014). Effects of measurement aggregation on predicting externalizing problems from preschool behaviour. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 32. 10.1111/bjdp.12059. 

  • Herle, Moritz & Kan, Carol & Jayaweera, Kaushalya & Adikari, Anushka & Siribaddana, Sisira & Zavos, Helena & Smolkina, Milana & Sumathipala, Athula & Llewellyn, Clare & Ismail, Khalida & Hotopf, Matthew & Treasure, Janet & Rijsdijk, Frühling. (2019). The association between emotional eating and depressive symptoms: a population-based twin study in Sri Lanka. Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics. 4. 10.1017/gheg.2019.3.