Kene Vernik (maternity leave)

Special skills:

• Insomnia cognitive behavioural psychotherapy
• Mindfulness-stress reducing techniques
• Cognitive behavioural psychotherapy therapeutic measures for stress, worrying thoughts, anxiety disorders, and mild depression
• Buteiko method (reducing anxiety and panic, controlling thoughts, retraining mouth breathing into nasal breathing)
• Registering sleep technically, assessment (polysomnography, polygraphy, cardiorespiratory test, MSLT, MWT, actigraphy).

Belongings to professional organizations:

• Estonian Sleep Medicine Association

Work experience:

• 2017 - ... Nordic Sleep Centre, sleep counsellor and technologist
• 2015 - 2017 Unimed Sleep Centre, sleep counsellor and technologist
• 2006 - 2010 Foundation Tartu University Hospital, Psychiatry clinic, department of sleep disorders, sleep technologist

Education:

• 2015 - ... Tartu University, Institute of Psychology, MA in Psychology
• 2005 - 2009 Academy Nord, Bachelor’s on Psychology (professional certificate of a psychologist - 7)

Languages:

• Estonian
• English