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Psychotherapy and Intervention Psychology

Dr. Karolin Teichmüller

Dr. Karolin Teichmüller

Akademische Rätin auf Zeit
Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I, Psychotherapie und Interventionspsychologie
Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Marcusstr. 9-11
97070 Würzburg
Deutschland
Room: 319

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since 01/2024 Temporary Academic Counsellor, Professorship of Psychotherapy and Intervention Psychology (Prof. A. Reiter), University of Würzburg
02/2022 Acquisition of the additional qualification "Specialised pain psychotherapist"
10/2014 - 12/2023 Psychotherapist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pain Medicine (ZiS), University Hospital Würzburg
05/2017 Licence to practice as a psychological psychotherapist (VT)
10/2010 - 03/2017 Further education programme "Psychological Psychotherapy" at the WAPP, University of Würzburg
05/2014 Doctorate on the topic "Non-organic sleep disorders and their treatment in adolescence"
10/2009 - 09/2015 Research assistant, Chair of Intervention Psychology (Prof. A. Kübler), University of Würzburg
10/2004 - 10/2009 Degree in Psychology (Diploma) at the University of Würzburg

 

PAIN

Teichmüller, K., Galstyan, H., Bas, L., Kindl, G., Kanske, P., Rittner, H., & Reiter, A. (2025). Empathy and validation in chronic pain couples: a systematic review. PAIN Reports 10(6):e1343, DOI: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000001343

Wenzel, P., Gründahl, M., Fischer, M., Hein, G., Fuchtmann, F., Schnabel, K., Rosenberger, D.C., Pogatzki-Zahn, E., Rittner, H., & Teichmüller, K. (2025). Influence of social support on peri-operative pain: a secondary sub-sample analysis of a prospective observational trial. European Journal of Pain, 29(8), e70094, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70094

Herrmann, E.*, Schindehütte, M.*, Kindl, G.*, Reinhold, A., Aulbach, F., Rose, N., Dreiling, J., Schwarzkopf, D., Meir, M., Jin, Y., Teichmüller, K., Widder, A., Blum, R., Sawalma, A., Cebulla, N., Sendtner, M., Meißner, W., Brack, A., Pham, M., Sommer, C., Schlegel, N., Rittner, H. (2025). Chronic postsurgical inguinal pain: relevance and diagnostics with dorsal root ganglia imaging and biomarkers. British Journal of Anaesthesia, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2024.11.048.*shared first authorship

Teichmüller, K., Rose, N., Dreiling, J., Schwarzkopf, D., Meißner, W., Rittner, H., & Kindl, G. (2024). Incidence and treatment of CRPS after surgery - Analysis of claims data from Germany. PAIN Reports 9(6):p e1210, DOI: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000001210.

Kindl, G., Reinhold, A.-K., Escolano-Lozano, F., Degenbeck, J., Birklein, F., Rittner, H., & Teichmüller, K. (2024). Monitoring everyday upper extremity function in patients with complex regional pain syndrome - a secondary, retrospective analysis from ncRNAPain. Pain Research and Management, https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/9993438.

Teichmüller, K., Kübler, A., Rittner, H., & Kindl, G. (2024). Avoidance and endurance responses to pain before and with advanced chronification: Preliminary results from a questionnaire survey in adult patients with non-cancer pain conditions. Journal of Pain Research, 17, 2473-2481

Teichmüller, K. *, Schönbach, B. *, Boujong, D., Böger, A., Sabatowski, R., & Scharnagel, R. (2024). Booster treatments in interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy. Schmerz. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00482-024-00807-z.*shared first authorship

Teichmüller, K., Bast, L., Rittner, H., & Kindl, G. (2022). Chronic pain in the elderly against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schmerz, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00482-022-00663-9.

Kindl, G., Teichmüller, K., Escolano-Lozano, F., Birklein, F., & Rittner, H. (2022). Pain, disability, and lifestyle: Patients with complex regional pain syndrome compared to chronic musculoskeletal pain - A retrospective analysis. European Journal of Pain, 26, 719-728.

 

SLEEP

Schlarb, A.A., Faber, J., Paciello, L. M., Quante, M., Teichmüller, K., Landwehr, J., Schneider, B. (2025). Child sleep coaches in German-speaking countries: current status. somnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11818-025-00512-8

Schlarb, A.A., Brandhorst, I., Schwerdtle, B., Zschoche, M., Kübler, A., & Teichmüller, K. (2025). Characteristics of children and adolescents with insomnia and comorbid nightmares - a secondary analysis of clinical samples with an age range from 0 to 18 years. Children, 12(2), 129. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12020129

Mühr, Y., Teichmüller, K., Trübner, L., Quante, M., Kübler, A., & Schlarb, A.A. (2024). And now another story... Pilot study on changing children's sleep-related anxiety by reading picture books aloud. Somnology, 28(2), 119-130.

Teichmüller, K., Launer, M., & Reiter, A. M. F. The influence of parental empathy on chronic pain in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review. XXXIX DGKJP Congress, Würzburg, April 2026

Teichmüller, K., Kindl, G., Rittner, H., & Reiter, A. (2025). Empathy for pain in couples. Pain, 39 (Suppl 1), S30

Teichmüller, K. Social support as a factor for postoperative pain. 54th Bavarian Anaesthesia Days, Munich, October 2025

Teichmüller, K., Fischer, M., Lindner, S., & Rittner, H. (2022). The Würzburg CRPS patient education - Development of a multimodal education programme. Pain, 36(Suppl 1), S62.

Scharnagel, R., Teichmüller, K., & Schönbach, B. (2022). Boosters after IMST - full protection or superfluous? Pain, 36(Suppl 1), S18.

Teichmüller, K., Bast, L., Kindl, G., Kübler, A., & Rittner H. (2022, May). Effects of the corona pandemic on pain disorders in the elderly. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the DGPSF, Jena.

Fischer, M., Teichmüller, K., & Lindner, S. (2021). Multimodal group therapy for seniors - concept and experiences. Pain, 35(Suppl 1), S21.

Teichmüller, K., Rammelt, K., Lindner, S., & Rittner, H. (2021, May). Application of the Avoidance Endurance Model to patients in PAIN 2020. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the DGPSF, Munich.

  • Psychosocial aspects of chronic pain disorders
  • Pain psychotherapy
  • Sleep and circadian rhythms

  • Examiner in the application-oriented course examination according to PsychThApprO (since autumn 2025)

  • Professional qualification activity II (BQT II) Advanced practice of psychotherapy I: Psychotherapeutic procedures and methods for the treatment of adults and older people (since summer semester 2025)

  • Module "Applied Psychotherapy" in the Master's degree programme in Psychotherapy (since WS 2023/24)

  •  Module "Chronic Pain" in the cross-sectional subject Pain Medicine Q14 (SS 2021-SS 2023) 

05/2021 Poster prize at the 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Psychological Pain Therapy and Research (DGPSF), Munich
05/2015 Joint doctoral award from the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science and the University of Würzburg
12/2014 Travel grant (Equal Opportunities Commission of the Faculty of Human Sciences) for the 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM), Cologne
07/2013 Travel grant (DAAD) for the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) 2013, Barcelona
03/2012-06/2013 Doctoral scholarship in the programme "Equal opportunities for women in research and teaching"